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Bill	Cal-COBRA: premium assistance.	Existing federal law, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) , requires group health plans providing coverage to employers of 20 or more employees to provide former employees with continuation of benefits, as specified. Existing federal law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides specified premium assistance under COBRA and state programs that provide comparable continuation coverage for certain assistance eligible individuals, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 23	California AB 23 (20092010)	bill	Cal-COBRA: premium assistance.	enacted	Jones	9	27	6	2008-12-01	2009-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/3db1ed61-7d99-4861-97a2-bb9f21bf36b5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23	acc87baa560abede1f0441c260a382bbb6c40b5d0e3b827aad815b36e9986049	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 23 (20092010) — Cal-COBRA: premium assistance.

Existing federal law, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) , requires group health plans providing coverage to employers of 20 or more employees to provide former employees with continuation of benefits, as specified. Existing federal law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides specified premium assistance under COBRA and state programs that provide comparable continuation coverage for certain assistance eligible individuals, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 12/01/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/23/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/19/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/02/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/04/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 05/12/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB23 (committee substitute) — source
9. 05/11/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 23 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB23 Jones Urgency Clause — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 23 JONES Third Reading Urgency — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)
• Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
• Fletcher — author (person)
• Maldonado — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-12-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2008-12-02 From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
• 2009-02-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-02-23 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
• 2009-02-23 (Corrected February 24.)
• 2009-02-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-03-19 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
• 2009-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-03-25 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-02 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 758.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-04-16 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-04-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-04-28 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-04 (Corrected May 5.)
• 2009-05-05 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-06 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after May 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-05-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1341.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-05-12 Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
• 2009-05-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-05-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3db1ed61-7d99-4861-97a2-bb9f21bf36b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).