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type: "Bill"
title: "Discrimination."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 757"
citation: "California SB 757 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Discrimination."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lieu"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/beeab4b9-f53c-4ef7-b576-28d108ef3224"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757"
source_hash: "2ef220d5003ebcef71eaaeb9a5153f315f9b58710f25e808ab1cb8a5dbfb440d"
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 SB 757 (20112012) — Discrimination.
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.
1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75799INT)
2. **03/23/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75798AMD)
3. **04/28/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75797AMD)
4. **06/13/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75796AMD)
5. **07/05/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75795AMD)
6. **08/15/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75794AMD)
7. **08/22/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75793AMD)
8. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75791CHP)
9. **SB757** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757)
10. **09/06/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB757&version=20110SB75792ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **125** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **32** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **135** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **63** (pass) · lower
- SB 757 Lieu Senate Third Reading By ATKINS — **5024** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB757 Lieu Concurrence — **2413** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **2513** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **63** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **62** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/beeab4b9-f53c-4ef7-b576-28d108ef3224`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).