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Bill	Health care coverage.	Existing law, the federal Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, requires a group health plan to permit an eligible person to enroll for coverage under the plan if the person's coverage under Medicaid or under a state child health plan was terminated, as specified, and the person applies for coverage under the group health plan not later than 60 days after that termination.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1541	California AB 1541 (20092010)	bill	Health care coverage.	enacted	Committee on Health	9	31	6	2009-03-04	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/e12a7cd4-84bb-494d-b1ee-81e6bf72100d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541	02148fb028da0ceca4c3bcef2119a9d7e51ec92728b0e55fbc8d72e36f64565e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1541 (20092010) — Health care coverage.

Existing law, the federal Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, requires a group health plan to permit an eligible person to enroll for coverage under the plan if the person's coverage under Medicaid or under a state child health plan was terminated, as specified, and the person applies for coverage under the group health plan not later than 60 days after that termination.

Version chain

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

1. 03/04/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/05/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1541 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1541 HEALTH Assembly Third Reading By JONES — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1541 Committee on HEALTH (Jones) By Alquist — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1541 HEALTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments By JONES — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Health — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-03-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-03-05 From printer. May be heard in committee April 4.
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-05-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-05-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-05-12 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (May 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-26 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-28 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1754.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-22 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-06-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-06-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-07-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-23 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-23 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-23 (Corrected September 8.)
• 2009-08-18 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2103.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3106.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-29 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 542, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e12a7cd4-84bb-494d-b1ee-81e6bf72100d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).