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Bill	California Health Benefit Exchange: appeals.	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. 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. Existing law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) to implement the federal law. Existing law also requires the board of the Exchange to establish an appeals process for prospective and current enrollees of the Exchange that complies with all of the requirements of the federal act concerning the role of a state Exchange in facilitating federal appeals of Exchange-related determinations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 617	California AB 617 (20132014)	bill	California Health Benefit Exchange: appeals.	enacted	Nazarian	10	32	8	2013-02-20	2014-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/e77d7a2f-3f7b-4226-b461-a058a9a11176	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB617	025f1009512584b6f7224e5a2895670f77d0eb33ed0d88523f7bc871e29e8f77	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 617 (20132014) — California Health Benefit Exchange: appeals.

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. 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. Existing law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) to implement the federal law. Existing law also requires the board of the Exchange to establish an appeals process for prospective and current enrollees of the Exchange that complies with all of the requirements of the federal act concerning the role of a state Exchange in facilitating federal appeals of Exchange-related determinations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/13/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB617 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/03/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 617 NAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — 54–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 617 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–21 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB617 Nazarian By Hernandez — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-19 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 1673.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-08-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-11 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 9. Page 4863.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 21. Page 6571.)
• 2014-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 21. Page 6579.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 869, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e77d7a2f-3f7b-4226-b461-a058a9a11176. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).