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Bill	California Health Care Cost, Quality, and Equity Data Atlas.	Existing law establishes health care coverage programs to provide health care to segments of the population meeting specified criteria who are otherwise unable to afford health care coverage and provides for the licensure and regulation of health insurers and health care service plans.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1159	California SB 1159 (20152016)	bill	California Health Care Cost Quality and Equity Data Atlas.	enacted	Hernandez	9	34	11	2016-02-18	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7bf6c764-2707-464c-815d-f20a6e28fa08	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1159	f3f39339196df6dff673a4951a26eeb0f9947115daf8b01e6f0d9f47b26295ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1159 (20152016) — California Health Care Cost, Quality, and Equity Data Atlas.

Existing law establishes health care coverage programs to provide health care to segments of the population meeting specified criteria who are otherwise unable to afford health care coverage and provides for the licensure and regulation of health insurers and health care service plans.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB1159 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1159 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By PUB. S. Amendment Set #1 — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 14–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1159 Hernandez Concurrence — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 25–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1159 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By BONTA — 60–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hernandez — 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
• 2016-03-17 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2016-03-28 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
• 2016-03-28 April 13 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-03-29 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2016-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3445.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3611.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2016-05-16 May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-05-20 Set for hearing May 27.
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4004.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 4122.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (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 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 4.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5962.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 19. Page 6092.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 5405.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 727, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7bf6c764-2707-464c-815d-f20a6e28fa08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).