---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health benefits trusts: recovery of medical costs."
description: "Health benefits trusts: recovery of medical costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1337"
citation: "California AB 1337 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health benefits trusts: recovery of medical costs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cohn"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7f02186-1315-4a2e-9537-4affb2dc0b1b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337"
source_hash: "1a2417c4e1b09309000d801661bf2f19e4d1aaa72697eff7767e4818eab38d9d"
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 1337 (20012002) — Health benefits trusts: recovery of medical costs.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133799INT)
2. **07/09/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133798AMD)
3. **08/20/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133797AMD)
4. **08/23/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133796AMD)
5. **09/04/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133795AMD)
6. **09/07/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133794AMD)
7. **10/13/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133792CHP)
8. **AB1337** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337)
9. **09/14/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1337&version=20010AB133793ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1337 Cohn Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1337 Cohn Consent Calendar Second Day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB1337 Cohn By Escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cohn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 851, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-10-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2001-09-14** From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (September 14). Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-13** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2001-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2001-09-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2842.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-09-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-09-07** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2001-09-04** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-08-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-09** Joint Rule 61 (a)(9) suspended (Page 1890.)
- **2001-07-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-06-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-06-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-05-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1518.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-07** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-18** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2001-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2001-02-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7f02186-1315-4a2e-9537-4affb2dc0b1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).