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Bill	Health care coverage.	(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for that coverage and to renew that coverage at the option of the plan sponsor or the individual. PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage from imposing any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to that plan or coverage. PPACA allows the premium rate charged by a health insurance issuer offering small group or individual coverage to vary only by rating area, age, tobacco use, and whether the coverage is for an individual or family and prohibits discrimination against individuals based on health status, as specified. PPACA requires an issuer to consider all enrollees in its individual market plans to be part of a single risk pool and to consider all enrollees in its small group market plans to be part of a single risk pool, as specified. PPACA also requires each state to, by January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014 Special Session 1	SB 2	California SB 2 (20132014 Special Session 1)	bill	Health care coverage.	enacted	Hernandez	7	23	7	2013-01-28	2013-05-09	openstates	ocd-bill/40d6c96b-ebac-4aad-835c-0f46421d7b6c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320141SB2	db9fa123113712803fe7c8c77ae1063a73194669174c2fbb35c7b25b80ba1db5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 2 (20132014 Special Session 1) — Health care coverage.

(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for that coverage and to renew that coverage at the option of the plan sponsor or the individual. PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage from imposing any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to that plan or coverage. PPACA allows the premium rate charged by a health insurance issuer offering small group or individual coverage to vary only by rating area, age, tobacco use, and whether the coverage is for an individual or family and prohibits discrimination against individuals based on health status, as specified. PPACA requires an issuer to consider all enrollees in its individual market plans to be part of a single risk pool and to consider all enrollees in its small group market plans to be part of a single risk pool, as specified. PPACA also requires each state to, by January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/28/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/21/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/09/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB2 (committee substitute) — source
7. 04/30/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–6 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 26–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 2 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By PAN — 51–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB2 Hernandez Concurrence — 27–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)
• Monning — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-28 Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, referral-committee, introduction
• 2013-02-07 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-02-08 Set for hearing February 20.
• 2013-02-15 Set for hearing February 21 in APPR. pending receipt.
• 2013-02-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (February 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-02-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (February 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-02-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-02-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 18.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-02-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-03-04 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-03-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-03-12 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 93.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-04-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 60.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2013-05-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-05-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 2, Statutes of 2013-14 First Extraordinary Session.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/40d6c96b-ebac-4aad-835c-0f46421d7b6c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).