republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1696.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance omnibus: developmental services."
description: "Existing law divides insurance into various classes, including long-term care insurance, which includes an insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered, solicited, or designed to provide coverage for diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services that are provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. Existing law, for the purposes of long-term care insurance, defines \"alternate plan of care\" as a plan of care developed by a licensed health care practitioner that includes a specification of long-term care services required by an insured that are not specifically defined as a covered service under the policy, and specifies that an insurer is not required to include a provision in a long-term care insurance policy that authorizes an alternate plan of care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1696"
citation: "California AB 1696 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance omnibus: developmental services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-27"
last_action: "2017-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d5bbafe-4d34-45f1-9ae9-ba0d365f86d9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696"
source_hash: "29047005cdbc1e7b8e2c2561dfe4e58b43d7ff3180cf4d79e1d898db53d88725"
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 AB 1696 (20172018) — Insurance omnibus: developmental services.

Existing law divides insurance into various classes, including long-term care insurance, which includes an insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered, solicited, or designed to provide coverage for diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services that are provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. Existing law, for the purposes of long-term care insurance, defines "alternate plan of care" as a plan of care developed by a licensed health care practitioner that includes a specification of long-term care services required by an insured that are not specifically defined as a covered service under the policy, and specifies that an insurer is not required to include a provision in a long-term care insurance policy that authorizes an alternate plan of care.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696&version=20170AB169699INT)
2. **03/27/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696&version=20170AB169698AMD)
3. **07/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696&version=20170AB169697AMD)
4. **09/07/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696&version=20170AB169696AMD)
5. **10/02/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696&version=20170AB169694CHP)
6. **AB1696** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696)
7. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1696&version=20170AB169695ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1696 INS. (Daly) By Mendoza — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1696 Insurance Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1696 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-27** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-28** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2017-03-16** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on INS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-18** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1059.)
- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1483.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on I., B. & F.I. `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-07-18** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-21** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-24** From Consent Calendar.
- **2017-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2771.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
- **2017-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3323.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 417, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d5bbafe-4d34-45f1-9ae9-ba0d365f86d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).