republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-1477.md

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Bill	Health.	(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that took effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each state, by January 1, 2014, to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing state law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange (the Exchange) within state government, specifies the powers and duties of the board governing the Exchange, and requires the board to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1477	California SB 1477 (20152016)	bill	Health.	enacted	Committee on Health	5	27	7	2016-03-09	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/a8bad981-745f-44b0-bfdb-c49470313041	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1477	8a6c92c6a2288df90e3385f6b531267b886eacd5052b8c4a56cbfd9d296f9b4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1477 (20152016) — Health.

(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that took effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each state, by January 1, 2014, to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing state law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange (the Exchange) within state government, specifies the powers and duties of the board governing the Exchange, and requires the board to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers.

Version chain

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

1. 03/09/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1477 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1477 HEALTH Senate Third Reading By WOOD Amendment Set #1 — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1477 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1477 HEALTH Senate Third Reading By WOOD — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd SB1477 Committee On HEALTH — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1477 Committee On HEALTH (Hernandez) Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Health — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-03-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-03-10 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 9.
• 2016-03-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-04-05 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2016-04-14 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3560.) (April 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3630.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-16 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5487.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-23 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2016-06-27 Withdrawn from engrossing and enrolling.
• 2016-06-27 Ordered held at the Desk.
• 2016-08-15 Ordered to the Assembly.
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
• 2016-08-18 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed and ordered to the Senate.
• 2016-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5976.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6243.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5491.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8bad981-745f-44b0-bfdb-c49470313041. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).