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Bill	Health care coverage: prescriptions.	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 requires a health care service plan or health insurer that covers outpatient prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for specified prescription drugs, and requires cost sharing for outpatient prescription drugs to be reasonable so as to allow access to medically necessary outpatient prescription drugs.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2863	California AB 2863 (20172018)	bill	Health care coverage: prescriptions.	enacted	Nazarian	10	32	8	2018-02-16	2018-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/2cdefff8-6452-436e-8437-dfd74aa488d6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2863	7fb21b4dcb59df8869e99897167ed77cb1c09a18f1d35e837f15504781637f56	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2863 (20172018) — Health care coverage: prescriptions.

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 requires a health care service plan or health insurer that covers outpatient prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for specified prescription drugs, and requires cost sharing for outpatient prescription drugs to be reasonable so as to allow access to medically necessary outpatient prescription drugs.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/21/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/26/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2863 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2863 NAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2863 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2863 Nazarian et al. By Wiener — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. 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
• 2018-04-11 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
• 2018-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5302.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-06-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 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 5451.). 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 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-28 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6880.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 770, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2cdefff8-6452-436e-8437-dfd74aa488d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).