---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Managed Health Care: review of records."
description: "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (hereafter the act) , 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. Existing law requires the records, books, and papers of a health care service plan and other specified entities to be open to inspection by the director of the department during normal business hours."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 3221"
citation: "California AB 3221 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Managed Health Care", "review of records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pellerin"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d493b5ed-3127-4414-bc50-b23f2482787b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221"
source_hash: "ff4022db2fe546ce31bb5577b27a61ab933778ceda97d2dfc0ad936c29c1fc63"
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 AB 3221 (20232024) — Department of Managed Health Care: review of records.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (hereafter the act) , 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. Existing law requires the records, books, and papers of a health care service plan and other specified entities to be open to inspection by the director of the department during normal business hours.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221&version=20230AB322199INT)
2. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221&version=20230AB322198AMD)
3. **06/17/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221&version=20230AB322197AMD)
4. **08/05/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221&version=20230AB322196AMD)
5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221&version=20230AB322194CHP)
6. **AB3221** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221)
7. **08/28/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3221&version=20230AB322195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB3221 Pellerin et al. By Rubio — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 3221 Pellerin Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3221 Pellerin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pellerin — primary (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5192.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-22** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 5269.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6571.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 760, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d493b5ed-3127-4414-bc50-b23f2482787b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).