republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-2252.md

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Bill	Dental coverage: provider notice of changes.	Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene Act) , 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 the Knox-Keene Act, the Health Care Providers' Bill of Rights prohibits a contract between a health care service plan and a health care provider from including a term authorizing the plan to change a material term of the contract unless the parties have agreed to it or it is required to comply with state or federal law or with accreditation requirements of a private sector accreditation organization. Under existing law, if a change is made by amending a manual, policy, or procedure document referenced in the contract between a plan and a provider, the plan is required to provide at least 45 business days' notice to the provider, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2252	California AB 2252 (20112012)	bill	Dental coverage: provider notice of changes.	enacted	Gordon	9	29	7	2012-02-24	2012-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/d1cc337b-5736-4c2a-bcb1-dab9c86bb9b3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252	2784ebb46731f27fe9dedba1fda1969f14fbec84724869dddee27072a33e1ab4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2252 (20112012) — Dental coverage: provider notice of changes.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 (Knox-Keene Act) , 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 the Knox-Keene Act, the Health Care Providers' Bill of Rights prohibits a contract between a health care service plan and a health care provider from including a term authorizing the plan to change a material term of the contract unless the parties have agreed to it or it is required to comply with state or federal law or with accreditation requirements of a private sector accreditation organization. Under existing law, if a change is made by amending a manual, policy, or procedure document referenced in the contract between a plan and a provider, the plan is required to provide at least 45 business days' notice to the provider, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/25/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/22/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2252 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/06/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #16 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2252 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2252 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-12 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 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
• 2012-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-23 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5129.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 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
• 2012-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4784.). 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.)
• 2012-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6414.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
• 2012-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 447, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1cc337b-5736-4c2a-bcb1-dab9c86bb9b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).