---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: claim reimbursement."
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. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 3275"
citation: "California AB 3275 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage", "claim reimbursement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soria"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bebe6d5a-ff5c-4a72-ac1a-4396b4b109e9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275"
source_hash: "0ad30ef6f358f93db7e932f3d6ea5e708e7bb5ad527ed608f5cf2ff1ebf9fc75"
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 3275 (20232024) — Health care coverage: claim reimbursement.

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. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.

## 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=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327599INT)
2. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327598AMD)
3. **04/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327597AMD)
4. **05/16/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327596AMD)
5. **06/27/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327595AMD)
6. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327594AMD)
7. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327592CHP)
8. **AB3275** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275)
9. **09/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3275&version=20230AB327593ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3275 Soria Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB3275 Soria et al. By Caballero — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 3275 Soria Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Soria — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — author (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`
- **2024-04-01** 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: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- **2024-05-16** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5215.)
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5389.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-11** 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 763, 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/bebe6d5a-ff5c-4a72-ac1a-4396b4b109e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).