---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: fertility preservation."
description: "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 600"
citation: "California SB 600 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: fertility preservation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c46a1b3-a1f5-4c79-a32b-d96f31e07e10"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB600"
source_hash: "0a2e1cbdcb610c4edc2af84f1778c07d5041d0ccde2a46cb48695d78e895e197"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 600 (20192020) — Health care coverage: fertility preservation.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB600&version=20190SB60099INT)
2. **04/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB600&version=20190SB60098AMD)
3. **09/05/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB600&version=20190SB60097AMD)
4. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB600&version=20190SB60095CHP)
5. **SB600** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB600)
6. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB600&version=20190SB60096ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB600 Portantino Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–1** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 600 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Wicks — **56–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Portantino — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2019-04-29** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 849.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-03** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2019-05-13** May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-05-14** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1104.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1190.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-05** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 2. Page 3201.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2839.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 853, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c46a1b3-a1f5-4c79-a32b-d96f31e07e10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).