republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-219.md

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Bill	Health care coverage: cancer treatment.	Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also 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 coverage for all generally medically accepted cancer screening tests and requires those contracts and policies to also provide coverage for the treatment of breast cancer. Existing law imposes various requirements on contracts and policies that cover prescription drug benefits.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 219	California AB 219 (20132014)	bill	Health care coverage: cancer treatment.	enacted	Perea	9	25	7	2013-02-04	2013-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/3f83c04c-e32a-4c84-a9d4-2c79b8decdeb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB219	3678cf141a0977bfe76bf0de04f7f078924e12586dc8af33362f62af2ba9b6fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 219 (20132014) — Health care coverage: cancer treatment.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also 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 coverage for all generally medically accepted cancer screening tests and requires those contracts and policies to also provide coverage for the treatment of breast cancer. Existing law imposes various requirements on contracts and policies that cover prescription drug benefits.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/17/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/19/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/02/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/09/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB219 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB219 Perea By Wright — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 15–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 219 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 65–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 219 PEREA Assembly Third Reading — 64–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Perea — primary (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Wright — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-05 From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
• 2013-02-15 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 2.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 9. Page 1039.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-02 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2257.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 11. Page 3094.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 661, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f83c04c-e32a-4c84-a9d4-2c79b8decdeb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).