---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: second opinions."
description: "Health care coverage: second opinions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 12"
citation: "California AB 12 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: second opinions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1998-12-07"
last_action: "1999-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/790e475f-162c-47e1-9523-400de37d23f8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12"
source_hash: "48b3f29da884a601bdedd5c57551f31ca0424e267146a7945a58a0d535cee56f"
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 12 (19992000) — Health care coverage: second opinions.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/07/98 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1299INT)
2. **05/25/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1298AMD)
3. **07/01/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1297AMD)
4. **08/16/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1296AMD)
5. **08/24/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1295AMD)
6. **09/07/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1294AMD)
7. **09/28/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1292CHP)
8. **AB12** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12)
9. **09/22/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB12&version=19990AB1293ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 12 DAVIS THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 12 DAVIS CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB12 Davis By Speier — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 531, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **1999-09-22** (Corrected September 22. )
- **1999-09-09** In Assembly. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 4. Page 4288.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 3129.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-07** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-08-25** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-08-24** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 1.). Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-17** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-08-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-14** In committee: Set, second hearing. Further hearing to be set.
- **1999-07-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-07-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 26). Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 3. Page 2023.) `committee-passage, reading-3, passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-26** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (March 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-01-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **1998-12-08** From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
- **1998-12-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/790e475f-162c-47e1-9523-400de37d23f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).