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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental coverage: provider notice of changes."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2252"
citation: "California AB 2252 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Dental coverage: provider notice of changes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1cc337b-5736-4c2a-bcb1-dab9c86bb9b3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252"
source_hash: "2784ebb46731f27fe9dedba1fda1969f14fbec84724869dddee27072a33e1ab4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225299INT)
2. **04/10/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225298AMD)
3. **04/23/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225297AMD)
4. **05/25/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225296AMD)
5. **06/19/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225295AMD)
6. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225294AMD)
7. **09/22/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225292CHP)
8. **AB2252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252)
9. **09/06/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2252&version=20110AB225293ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1cc337b-5736-4c2a-bcb1-dab9c86bb9b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).