republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-388.md

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Bill	Health care coverage: solicitation and enrollment.	Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to provide a written summary of benefits and coverage (SBC) and requires that the SBC be provided in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 388	California SB 388 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: solicitation and enrollment.	enacted	Mitchell	6	27	8	2015-02-25	2015-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/286cff59-055c-4806-ab6f-ab90b1a4f4ac	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB388	ff8901b407555675a826fd1e3196d4afd2b4fd43df51451d35b4a8e5b61d5916	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 388 (20152016) — Health care coverage: solicitation and enrollment.

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to provide a written summary of benefits and coverage (SBC) and requires that the SBC be provided in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB388 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB388 Mitchell Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 388 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By KIM — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mitchell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 28.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-27 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2015-04-06 April 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-07 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 1153.) (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 1201.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 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
• 2015-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-15 July 15 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
• 2015-09-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2848.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-04 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 388.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2015-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 655, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/286cff59-055c-4806-ab6f-ab90b1a4f4ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).