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Bill	Health care coverage: out-of-network coverage.	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. A willful violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a health care service plan to reimburse providers for emergency services and care provided to its enrollees, until the care results in stabilization of the enrollee. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan from requiring a provider to obtain authorization prior to the provision of emergency services and care necessary to stabilize the enrollee's emergency medical care, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 72	California AB 72 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: out-of-network coverage.	enacted	Bonta	11	57	12	2014-12-18	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/3ef6b890-c3c1-452a-814e-63ced6997768	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB72	dc0de63d65c639a8161f84dd318c3113b28ee062d23f3cd1a21b89c0a1e04267	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 72 (20152016) — Health care coverage: out-of-network coverage.

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. A willful violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a health care service plan to reimburse providers for emergency services and care provided to its enrollees, until the care results in stabilization of the enrollee. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan from requiring a provider to obtain authorization prior to the provision of emergency services and care necessary to stabilize the enrollee's emergency medical care, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 12/18/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/09/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB72 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 4–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 72 BONTA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 72 BONTA Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB72 Bonta By Hernandez — 35–1 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)
• Bonilla — author (person)
• Dahle — author (person)
• Gonzalez — author (person)
• Maienschein — author (person)
• Santiago — author (person)
• Wood — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-12-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-12-19 From printer. May be heard in committee January 18.
• 2015-01-05 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-01-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1107.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-06-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-24 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hernandez.
• 2015-09-02 From inactive file.
• 2015-09-02 Ordered to second reading.
• 2015-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2015-09-09 Joint Rule 61(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2645.)
• 2015-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2646.)
• 2015-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-09-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.) (September 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-09-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-11 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hancock.
• 2016-06-15 From inactive file.
• 2016-06-15 Ordered to second reading.
• 2016-06-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2016-08-25 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Page 5433.)
• 2016-08-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-26 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-08-26 (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5451.)
• 2016-08-26 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 5488.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6474.)
• 2016-08-30 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6534.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 492, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ef6b890-c3c1-452a-814e-63ced6997768. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).