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type: "Bill"
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title: "Cal-COBRA: premium assistance."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20092010"
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identifier: "AB 23"
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citation: "California AB 23 (20092010)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Cal-COBRA: premium assistance."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2008-12-01"
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last_action: "2009-05-12"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3db1ed61-7d99-4861-97a2-bb9f21bf36b5"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23"
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source_hash: "acc87baa560abede1f0441c260a382bbb6c40b5d0e3b827aad815b36e9986049"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 23 (20092010) — Cal-COBRA: premium assistance.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **12/01/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2399INT)
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2. **02/23/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2398AMD)
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3. **03/19/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2397AMD)
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4. **04/02/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2396AMD)
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5. **04/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2395AMD)
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6. **05/04/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2394AMD)
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7. **05/12/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2392CHP)
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8. **AB23** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23)
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9. **05/11/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB23&version=20090AB2393ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 23 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Assembly 3rd Reading AB23 Jones Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- AB 23 JONES Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Jones — primary (person)
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- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
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- Fletcher — author (person)
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- Maldonado — coauthor (person)
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- Salas — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2008-12-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2008-12-02** From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
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- **2009-02-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2009-02-23** (Corrected February 24.)
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- **2009-02-26** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2009-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2009-04-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2009-04-02** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-04-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 758.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-04-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2009-04-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2009-04-27** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
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- **2009-04-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-04** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-04** (Corrected May 5.)
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- **2009-05-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-06** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after May 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2009-05-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1341.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2009-05-12** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
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- **2009-05-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2009-05-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3db1ed61-7d99-4861-97a2-bb9f21bf36b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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