---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: behavioral diagnoses."
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. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 951"
citation: "California AB 951 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Healthcarecoverage", "behavioraldiagnoses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ta"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b60e4e1c-8ec9-446b-a267-c377ad33b87a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB951"
source_hash: "356338e5db42119213679b3693ae663656c56cb39cea7126f90afa38d0978e6d"
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 951 (20252026) — Health care coverage: behavioral diagnoses.

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. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB951&version=20250AB95199INT)
2. **06/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB951&version=20250AB95198AMD)
3. **07/30/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB951&version=20250AB95196CHP)
4. **AB951** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB951)
5. **07/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB951&version=20250AB95197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB951 Ta et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 951 Ta Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 951 Ta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ta — primary (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- DeMaio — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-07** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-07-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2043.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-07-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-07-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2532.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2025-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 84, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b60e4e1c-8ec9-446b-a267-c377ad33b87a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).