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Bill	Consumer operated and oriented plans.	Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to establish the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan program for the purpose of fostering the creation of qualified nonprofit health insurance issuers to offer qualified health plans in the individual and small group markets in the states in which they are licensed to offer those plans and makes start-up and solvency loans available for those purposes, as specified. 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 that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of various forms of insurance by the Insurance Commissioner and requires insurers to obtain a certificate of authority from the commissioner in order to be admitted to transact insurance business in the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1846	California AB 1846 (20112012)	bill	Consumer operated and oriented plans.	enacted	Gordon	10	31	8	2012-02-22	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/c4031294-066a-459f-b093-7f5b280e2d3a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1846	85556642f3fee3245248af42837be36fba64e75edbe6e5529208a4800d6fdaef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1846 (20112012) — Consumer operated and oriented plans.

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to establish the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan program for the purpose of fostering the creation of qualified nonprofit health insurance issuers to offer qualified health plans in the individual and small group markets in the states in which they are licensed to offer those plans and makes start-up and solvency loans available for those purposes, as specified. 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 that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of various forms of insurance by the Insurance Commissioner and requires insurers to obtain a certificate of authority from the commissioner in order to be admitted to transact insurance business in the state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/17/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/28/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1846 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Health. — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1846 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1846 Gordon By Wolk — 23–13 (pass) · upper
• AB 1846 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 51–26 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-04-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-21 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 5049.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Coms. on INS. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 4756.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 26. Page 6385.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 859, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4031294-066a-459f-b093-7f5b280e2d3a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).