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Bill	Office of Patient Advocate.	Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law creates within the Department of Managed Health Care an Office of Patient Advocate to assist enrollees with regard to health care coverage, which is headed by a patient advocate recommended to the Governor by the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. The Office of Patient Advocate is responsible for, among other things, developing educational and informational guides for consumers, compiling an annual publication of a quality of care report card, and rendering advice and assistance to enrollees. The annual budget of the Office of Patient Advocate is separately identified in the annual budget request of the department. The California Health and Human Services Agency consists of, among others, the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Mental Health, the State Department of Public Health, and the State Department of Social Services.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 922	California AB 922 (20112012)	bill	Office of Patient Advocate.	enacted	Monning	9	33	10	2011-02-18	2011-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/0d4f4ea9-c472-468a-aae7-a632be646220	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB922	8eccaddf698ca7798e53437ce049963a62cd883c97a7c05bb29feaa60162c61b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 922 (20112012) — Office of Patient Advocate.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law creates within the Department of Managed Health Care an Office of Patient Advocate to assist enrollees with regard to health care coverage, which is headed by a patient advocate recommended to the Governor by the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. The Office of Patient Advocate is responsible for, among other things, developing educational and informational guides for consumers, compiling an annual publication of a quality of care report card, and rendering advice and assistance to enrollees. The annual budget of the Office of Patient Advocate is separately identified in the annual budget request of the department. The California Health and Human Services Agency consists of, among others, the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Mental Health, the State Department of Public Health, and the State Department of Social Services.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/07/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB922 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• From Committee: That the measure be returned to the Senate floor for consideration. — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 922 MONNING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 51–28 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–6 (pass) · lower
• AB 922 MONNING Assembly Third Reading — 51–27 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB922 Monning By Hernandez — 21–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-03-29 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
• 2011-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 6.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 27. Page 1800.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 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
• 2011-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-06 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2011-09-06 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2011-09-06 From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (September 6). committee-passage
• 2011-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-06 Measure version as amended on September 2 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 2352.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-07 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-07 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 2993.)
• 2011-09-07 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (September 7). committee-passage
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 28. Page 3101.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 552, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d4f4ea9-c472-468a-aae7-a632be646220. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).