republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1887.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Temporary high risk pool."
description: "Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a temporary high risk health insurance pool program to provide health insurance coverage for eligible individuals until January 1, 2014. Existing law authorizes the secretary to carry out this program directly or through contracts to eligible entities, including states, and requires that money made available pursuant to these provisions be used to establish a qualified high risk pool that meets certain requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1887"
citation: "California AB 1887 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Temporary high risk pool."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Villines"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-16"
last_action: "2010-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66485cdc-b4b3-4992-a8de-c53ed7080381"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887"
source_hash: "f0bd9f662ab76b0098addac1cf039a6e7285cb38c9ee56241558bb6533ecee6a"
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 1887 (20092010) — Temporary high risk pool.

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a temporary high risk health insurance pool program to provide health insurance coverage for eligible individuals until January 1, 2014. Existing law authorizes the secretary to carry out this program directly or through contracts to eligible entities, including states, and requires that money made available pursuant to these provisions be used to establish a qualified high risk pool that meets certain requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887&version=20090AB188799INT)
2. **04/28/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887&version=20090AB188798AMD)
3. **05/28/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887&version=20090AB188797AMD)
4. **06/10/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887&version=20090AB188796AMD)
5. **06/29/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887&version=20090AB188794CHP)
6. **AB1887** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887)
7. **06/29/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1887&version=20090AB188795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1887 Villines Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1887 VILLINES Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Villines — primary (person)
- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2010-02-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-27** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 20). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 5628.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-14** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5649.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-15** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-16** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3917.)
- **2010-06-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 4089.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-28** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-06-29** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:45 a.m.
- **2010-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 32, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66485cdc-b4b3-4992-a8de-c53ed7080381`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).