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Bill	Health care coverage: notice of timely access to care.	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 each department to develop and adopt regulations to ensure that enrollees have access to needed health care services in a timely manner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1135	California SB 1135 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: notice of timely access to care.	enacted	Monning	8	28	8	2016-02-18	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/d0c8caec-38fb-482c-a5eb-0788850a8dfb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1135	4fdfaed473bff3785ec163c39dd9ee990281cb6a05e26721ce8b0c05c3143c22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1135 (20152016) — Health care coverage: notice of timely access to care.

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 each department to develop and adopt regulations to ensure that enrollees have access to needed health care services in a timely manner.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB1135 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1135 Monning Concurrence — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–5 (pass) · lower
• SB 1135 Monning Senate Third Reading By SANTIAGO — 58–19 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 Set for hearing March 30.
• 2016-03-28 March 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-30 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2016-03-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 3445.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-15 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2016-04-25 April 25 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-05-20 Set for hearing May 27.
• 2016-05-31 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4004.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 4141.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-13 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 5.) (August 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 5892.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-24 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 5362.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 500, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0c8caec-38fb-482c-a5eb-0788850a8dfb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).