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Bill	Health care coverage: contraceptives: annual supply.	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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law also provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through, among other things, managed care plans licensed under the act that contract with the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to provide coverage for women for all prescribed and FDA-approved female contraceptive drugs, devices, and products, as well as voluntary sterilization procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related followup services.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 999	California SB 999 (20152016)	bill	Health care coverage: contraceptives: annual supply.	enacted	Pavley	9	35	10	2016-02-10	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/14f42c98-0a4f-4ea4-9830-e1c111802185	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB999	b72e9bcb5081f3b8b4e98e80c054b0b5c13158cdd64288b1fbeda9b2ba21fc72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 999 (20152016) — Health care coverage: contraceptives: annual supply.

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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law also provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through, among other things, managed care plans licensed under the act that contract with the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to provide coverage for women for all prescribed and FDA-approved female contraceptive drugs, devices, and products, as well as voluntary sterilization procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related followup services.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB999 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 999 Pavley Senate Third Reading Amendment Set #1 — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB999 Pavley Concurrence — 30–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 29–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 999 Pavley Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ — 68–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pavley — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Block — coauthor (person)
• Bonilla — coauthor (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gomez — principal coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Irwin — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Wolk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-11 Set for hearing April 4.
• 2016-03-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-30 Set for hearing April 13 in HEALTH.
• 2016-03-30 April 13 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3377.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-06 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2016-04-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 3559.) (April 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-22 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2016-05-02 May 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-05-03 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2016-05-09 May 9 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2016-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3888.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 6. Page 3929.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-27 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 3.) (August 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5950.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 8. Page 6228.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-26 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 5447.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 499, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/14f42c98-0a4f-4ea4-9830-e1c111802185. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).