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Bill	Health care coverage: medical loss ratios.	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2499	California AB 2499 (20172018)	bill	Health care coverage: medical loss ratios.	enacted	Arambula	8	25	7	2018-02-14	2018-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/d2862188-fffa-4350-b3de-b40358c595a0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2499	a91fcb0c9f0b1168be6d4462eb9ccdf9d5ef4737bc989c222956b2a20b041381	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2499 (20172018) — Health care coverage: medical loss ratios.

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.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/07/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/09/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2499 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2499 ARAMBULA Assembly Third Reading — 50–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2499 Arambula et al. By Pan — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 2499 ARAMBULA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 70–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)
• Wood — 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.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-17 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (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 50. Noes 24. Page 5439.) 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
• 2018-06-07 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
• 2018-06-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5446.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 6499.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-28 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 678, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2862188-fffa-4350-b3de-b40358c595a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).