republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-546.md

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Bill	Health care coverage: rate review.	Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a process for the annual review of unreasonable increases in premiums for health insurance coverage in which health insurance issuers submit to the secretary and the relevant state a justification for an unreasonable premium increase prior to implementation of the increase. The PPACA imposes an excise tax on a provider of applicable employer-sponsored health care coverage, if the aggregate cost of that coverage provided to an employee exceeds a specified dollar limit.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 546	California SB 546 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: rate review.	enacted	Leno	7	29	8	2015-02-26	2015-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/0703a511-1ace-413c-8c47-4c255ffd4573	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB546	04d12bf54602ab43270de417dabfdf93d087af22f67ad41a201b254ae704220a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 546 (20152016) — Health care coverage: rate review.

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a process for the annual review of unreasonable increases in premiums for health insurance coverage in which health insurance issuers submit to the secretary and the relevant state a justification for an unreasonable premium increase prior to implementation of the increase. The PPACA imposes an excise tax on a provider of applicable employer-sponsored health care coverage, if the aggregate cost of that coverage provided to an employee exceeds a specified dollar limit.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/31/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB546 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB546 Leno Concurrence — 26–14 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 23–16 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–8 (pass) · lower
• SB 546 Leno Senate Third Reading By BONILLA — 51–27 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Leno — 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 HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2015-03-24 April 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-03-25 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2015-04-14 April 15 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-15 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 758.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-08 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2015-05-18 May 18 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-06-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1156.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 16. Page 1304.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 8.) (July 7). 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 as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 27. Page 3104.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 14. Page 2753.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2015-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 801, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0703a511-1ace-413c-8c47-4c255ffd4573. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).