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Bill	Health care coverage.	Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that took effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA required each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2472	California AB 2472 (20172018)	bill	Health care coverage.	enacted	Wood	9	28	8	2018-02-14	2018-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/2f1944a9-bbce-4488-a4b8-bbb6d5210987	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2472	41bc567bd53dea126d75677259cb2f6efef7cf2a7ab753a486f1dee5e6ec8394	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2472 (20172018) — Health care coverage.

Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that took effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA required each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/22/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2472 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 14–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2472 Wood et al. By Monning — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• AB 2472 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–16 (pass) · lower
• AB 2472 WOOD Assembly Third Reading — 68–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 8. Page 5426.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 5596.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 16. Page 6639.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 677, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2f1944a9-bbce-4488-a4b8-bbb6d5210987. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).