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Bill	Health care coverage: reproductive health care services.	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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1954	California AB 1954 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: reproductive health care services.	enacted	Burke	10	28	8	2016-02-12	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/54c5e197-3b4f-4037-9fee-b9a17635ed65	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954	6df63b1eb21a613befd6f52a695d5d126af06d51a452fa4dff1e42c850b264b1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1954 (20152016) — Health care coverage: reproductive health care services.

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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/09/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/27/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/17/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1954 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1954 Burke By Mitchell — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• AB 1954 BURKE Assembly Third Reading — 53–23 (pass) · lower
• AB 1954 BURKE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 15–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 5.) (May 4). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 23. Page 4894.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 5253.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 19. Page 6341.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 495, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54c5e197-3b4f-4037-9fee-b9a17635ed65. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).