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Bill	Health care coverage: mammographies.	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 the act a crime. Under existing law, a health care service plan contract, except a specialized health care service plan contract, that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, is deemed to provide coverage for mammography for screening or diagnostic purposes upon referral by a participating nurse practitioner, participating certified nurse-midwife, or participating physician, providing care to the patient and operating within the scope of practice provided under existing law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 137	California AB 137 (20112012)	bill	Health care coverage: mammographies.	enacted	Portantino	7	25	6	2011-01-12	2012-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/5486643b-4ecc-444e-906e-0f921a0ad2d0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB137	4d085e2258619ec3b25fca8095763729b43b544bb6c999fa74f8168c9f3cb05b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 137 (20112012) — Health care coverage: mammographies.

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 the act a crime. Under existing law, a health care service plan contract, except a specialized health care service plan contract, that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, is deemed to provide coverage for mammography for screening or diagnostic purposes upon referral by a participating nurse practitioner, participating certified nurse-midwife, or participating physician, providing care to the patient and operating within the scope of practice provided under existing law.

Version chain

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

1. 01/12/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/22/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB137 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 137 PORTANTINO Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB137 Portantino By Alquist — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 137 PORTANTINO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-01-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-01-13 From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
• 2011-02-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3602.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4885.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6524.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:35 p.m.
• 2012-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 436, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5486643b-4ecc-444e-906e-0f921a0ad2d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).