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Bill	Health care coverage: mental illness: pervasive developmental disorder or autism: public health.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. A willful violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies to provide benefits for specified conditions, including certain mental health conditions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 946	California SB 946 (20112012)	bill	Health care coverage: mental illness: pervasive developmental disorder or autism: public health.	enacted	Steinberg	8	42	11	2011-03-31	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/7c379543-eb88-45f8-a1e0-22c2db76cae9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB946	3ecf7e3c2369e8945c762e7924fa2e9e2d51fd039f759a896a682f7d564b26fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 946 (20112012) — Health care coverage: mental illness: pervasive developmental disorder or autism: public health.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. A willful violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies to provide benefits for specified conditions, including certain mental health conditions.

Version chain

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

1. 03/31/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/10/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/02/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/09/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB946 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 946 Steinberg Senate Third Reading By BEALL — 52–21 (pass) · lower
• SB 946 HEALTH Senate Third Reading Amend By MONNING Set #1 — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• W/O REF. TO FILE SB946 Steinberg Concurrence — 25–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #4 SB946 Committee on Health — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 946 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Steinberg — primary (person)
• Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Beall — principal coauthor (person)
• Butler — coauthor (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Eng — coauthor (person)
• Evans — author (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Liu — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Wolk — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-03-31 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-04-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after May 1.
• 2011-04-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-04-21 Set for hearing May 4.
• 2011-05-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 886.) (May 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-13 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2011-05-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1281.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-13 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2597.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-25 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2011-08-30 Withdrawn from engrossing and enrolling.
• 2011-08-30 Ordered to the Assembly.
• 2011-08-30 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
• 2011-08-31 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to Senate.
• 2011-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-02 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2822.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-06 Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-06 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 2940.)
• 2011-09-06 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
• 2011-09-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (September 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-08 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 3036.)
• 2011-09-08 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (September 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Consent granted to take up without reference to file.
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 21. Page 3180.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2011-09-09 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 2457.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2011-09-09 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 2498.) committee-passage
• 2011-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 4. Page 2480.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 650, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c379543-eb88-45f8-a1e0-22c2db76cae9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).