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Bill	California Health Benefit Exchange.	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 health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for that coverage and to renew that coverage at the option of the plan sponsor or the individual. PPACA also requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 514	California SB 514 (20152016)	bill	California Health Benefit Exchange.	enacted	Anderson	7	29	8	2015-02-26	2016-08-19	openstates	ocd-bill/20c331bc-81f1-4fea-bfd1-7e651e947e00	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB514	4924dfd236cecb7a167d34dcc35b3b3a8ac2cea91827e5f3aaa1f5d632ccd2ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 514 (20152016) — California Health Benefit Exchange.

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 health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for that coverage and to renew that coverage at the option of the plan sponsor or the individual. PPACA also requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/26/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/20/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB514 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/05/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 514 Anderson Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-24 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2015-04-30 April 29 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-05-14 Set for hearing June 10.
• 2015-06-10 June 10 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-01-06 Set for hearing January 13.
• 2016-01-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 2901.) (January 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-01-15 Set for hearing January 19 in APPR. pending receipt.
• 2016-01-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-19 January 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-01-20 Set for hearing January 21.
• 2016-01-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2934.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-01-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-27 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2962.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5718.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2016-08-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
• 2016-08-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 146, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20c331bc-81f1-4fea-bfd1-7e651e947e00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).