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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: cost-sharing changes."
description: "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 the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits, except as specified, a health care service plan or a health insurer, with regard to a group contract or policy, from changing the premium rates or applicable copayments or coinsurances or deductibles during the term of a group plan contract or policy during specified time periods."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 923"
citation: "California SB 923 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: cost-sharing changes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-01-28"
last_action: "2016-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee8897e7-e5fb-4b95-9e01-191e01e1d7ee"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB923"
source_hash: "f9728f318e3931e7ffc0fc94de5d3fa14ff9dd36444c956d1b1218242b0eed67"
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 923 (20152016) — Health care coverage: cost-sharing changes.
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 the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits, except as specified, a health care service plan or a health insurer, with regard to a group contract or policy, from changing the premium rates or applicable copayments or coinsurances or deductibles during the term of a group plan contract or policy during specified time periods.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/28/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB923&version=20150SB92399INT)
2. **05/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB923&version=20150SB92398AMD)
3. **05/31/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB923&version=20150SB92397AMD)
4. **08/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB923&version=20150SB92395CHP)
5. **SB923** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB923)
6. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB923&version=20150SB92396ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **170** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB923 Hernandez Concurrence — **295** (pass) · upper
- SB 923 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **750** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **295** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hernandez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-01-28** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-01-29** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 28.
- **2016-02-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** Set for hearing March 30.
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3335.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-08** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2016-04-18** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2016-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 3735.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-18** 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`
- **2016-05-31** 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`
- **2016-06-14** June 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5711.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-04** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 4863.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2016-08-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 192, Statutes of 2016.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee8897e7-e5fb-4b95-9e01-191e01e1d7ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).