republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-282.md

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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 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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Commonly referred to as utilization review, existing law governs the procedures that apply to every health care service plan and health insurer that prospectively, retrospectively, or concurrently reviews and approves, modifies, delays, or denies, based on medical necessity, requests by providers prior to, retrospectively, or concurrent with, the provision of health care services to enrollees or insureds, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 282	California SB 282 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: prescription drugs.	enacted	Hernandez	8	31	8	2015-02-19	2015-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c0b4210a-2fbf-4297-9e2e-a3384bb2aa2e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB282	324d1d175df43902334d6770c51d65b3cfa79b99045ed6a79e909ed3ec278451	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 282 (20152016) — Health care coverage: prescription drugs.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the 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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Commonly referred to as utilization review, existing law governs the procedures that apply to every health care service plan and health insurer that prospectively, retrospectively, or concurrently reviews and approves, modifies, delays, or denies, based on medical necessity, requests by providers prior to, retrospectively, or concurrent with, the provision of health care services to enrollees or insureds, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/18/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/08/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB282 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/09/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 282 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By SANTIAGO — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB282 Hernandez Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-19 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 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
• 2015-04-10 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2015-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 758.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-24 Set for hearing May 4.
• 2015-05-04 May 4 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1150.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1199.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-15 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-06-18 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
• 2015-06-23 June 23 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-30 June 30 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-07 July 7 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-07-08 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
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-08-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-09-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2924.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2564.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2015-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 654, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0b4210a-2fbf-4297-9e2e-a3384bb2aa2e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).