Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan and a health insurance policy to provide group coverage to the registered domestic partner of an employee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder that is equal to the coverage it provides to the spouse of those persons.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan and a health insurance policy to provide group coverage to the registered domestic partner of an employee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder that is equal to the coverage it provides to the spouse of those persons.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–3 (pass) · lower
SB 757 Lieu Senate Third Reading By ATKINS — 50–24 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB757 Lieu Concurrence — 24–13 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 25–13 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Lieu — primary (person)
Fuentes — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2011-03-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-03-31 Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
2011-04-06 Set for hearing April 13.
2011-04-07 Hearing postponed by committee.
2011-04-12 Set for hearing April 27.
2011-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 786.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-04-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-04-29 Set for hearing May 3.
2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 861.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
2011-05-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 1014.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 1179.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2011-06-09 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
2011-06-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-08-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-08-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2011-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2011-09-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 2790.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-09-01 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2011-09-02 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 2273.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2011-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 722, Statutes of 2011.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/beeab4b9-f53c-4ef7-b576-28d108ef3224. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).