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Bill	Health care coverage: prescription drugs.	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 that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law imposes various requirements and restrictions on health care service plans and health insurers, including, among other things, requiring a health care service plan or health insurer that provides prescription drug benefits to utilize a specified uniform prior authorization form or electronic authorization process when requiring prior authorization for prescription drug benefits.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 374	California AB 374 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: prescription drugs.	enacted	Nazarian	10	31	8	2015-02-17	2015-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/178e7ca8-4cd5-4d00-9754-313c5e8510ad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB374	cbc266467bf63fd108adde00438f95905d459bb6d1ef372306e64d7c5243267a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 374 (20152016) — Health care coverage: prescription drugs.

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 that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law imposes various requirements and restrictions on health care service plans and health insurers, including, among other things, requiring a health care service plan or health insurer that provides prescription drug benefits to utilize a specified uniform prior authorization form or electronic authorization process when requiring prior authorization for prescription drug benefits.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/02/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB374 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/11/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 374 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB374 Nazarian By Monning — 35–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 374 NAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — 63–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2015-03-02 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-02 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
• 2015-03-03 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (April 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 14. Page 1789.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-07-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 4. Page 2589.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2990.)
• 2015-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3012.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 621, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/178e7ca8-4cd5-4d00-9754-313c5e8510ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).