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Bill	Health care coverage.	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 its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits the cancellation or nonrenewal of individual or group health benefit plans by a health care service plan or a health insurer except in specified circumstances, including for nonpayment of premiums or for fraud or misrepresentation, as specified, and gives an enrollee of a health care service plan contract a right to appeal a cancellation or nonrenewal to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law prohibits a plan or insurer from engaging in postclaims underwriting, as defined, and from rescinding an individual contract or policy for any reason, or canceling the contract or policy due to misrepresentation, as specified, after 24 months following issuance of the contract or policy.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2470	California AB 2470 (20092010)	bill	Health care coverage.	enacted	De La Torre	8	32	9	2010-02-19	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/490e26d2-2ef4-417a-9399-ecd4a3186a25	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2470	1cf39ab3ec3026c916ffc25e434f167185946591e8805f57d8e6f96ab215eded	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2470 (20092010) — Health care coverage.

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 its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits the cancellation or nonrenewal of individual or group health benefit plans by a health care service plan or a health insurer except in specified circumstances, including for nonpayment of premiums or for fraud or misrepresentation, as specified, and gives an enrollee of a health care service plan contract a right to appeal a cancellation or nonrenewal to the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law prohibits a plan or insurer from engaging in postclaims underwriting, as defined, and from rescinding an individual contract or policy for any reason, or canceling the contract or policy due to misrepresentation, as specified, after 24 months following issuance of the contract or policy.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/16/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/17/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2470 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• W/O REF. TO FILE AB2470 De La Torre By Padilla — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 2470 DE LA TORRE Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2470 DE LA TORRE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• De La Torre — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2010-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2010-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2010-03-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2010-03-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (March 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-04-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-28 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-02 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 27. Page 5486.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-06-10 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-06-16 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
• 2010-06-16 (Corrected June 28.)
• 2010-06-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-30 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-08-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 (Corrected August 24.)
• 2010-08-23 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2010-08-27 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended.
• 2010-08-27 (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 4960.)
• 2010-08-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-30 Ordered to third reading.
• 2010-08-30 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 5004.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2010-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 6909.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-15 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 658, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/490e26d2-2ef4-417a-9399-ecd4a3186a25. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).