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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: premium rate change: notice: other health coverage."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 908"
citation: "California SB 908 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: premium rate change: notice: other health coverage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-01-26"
last_action: "2016-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23c5dba5-5b09-4eac-9409-b0e6c43ed41c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908"
source_hash: "268ab884b4bd804115850748e9b4259ad22a165715d8fb9ab41d41ad9726a8f6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 908 (20152016) — Health care coverage: premium rate change: notice: other health coverage.
(1) Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/26/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908&version=20150SB90899INT)
2. **03/29/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908&version=20150SB90898AMD)
3. **05/31/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908&version=20150SB90897AMD)
4. **06/30/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908&version=20150SB90896AMD)
5. **08/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908&version=20150SB90895AMD)
6. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908&version=20150SB90893CHP)
7. **SB908** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908)
8. **08/26/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB908&version=20150SB90894ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **72** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **117** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **2412** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB908 Hernandez Concurrence — **2512** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- SB 908 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By SANTIAGO — **5126** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **146** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hernandez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-01-26** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-01-27** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
- **2016-02-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** Set for hearing March 30.
- **2016-03-28** March 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-03-29** 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`
- **2016-03-30** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2016-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 3445.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-08** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2016-04-18** April 18 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2016-05-20** Set for hearing May 27.
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3999.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 4095.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-21** June 21 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 7.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (August 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 6014.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 12.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 498, Statutes of 2016.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23c5dba5-5b09-4eac-9409-b0e6c43ed41c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).