republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-595.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Health care service plans: mergers and acquisitions.	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 requires every nonprofit health care service plan applying to restructure, as defined, or convert its activities to secure the approval of the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care. Under existing law, a health care service plan is required to notify the director of any material modifications of its plan or operations, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 595	California AB 595 (20172018)	bill	Health care service plans: mergers and acquisitions.	enacted	Wood	8	30	4	2017-02-14	2018-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/96d678a6-7397-4377-92fe-56d2c748ff9f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB595	7d5868e89dabe83cc3d197b2dd04a064a534c707d7a44ab5d1affb2e0a55fc46	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 595 (20172018) — Health care service plans: mergers and acquisitions.

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 requires every nonprofit health care service plan applying to restructure, as defined, or convert its activities to secure the approval of the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care. Under existing law, a health care service plan is required to notify the director of any material modifications of its plan or operations, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/22/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB595 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 595 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–23 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB595 Wood By Monning — 24–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2017-02-27 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and INS. referral-committee
• 2017-04-03 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
• 2017-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-01-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (January 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-01-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 22. Page 3861.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-03-15 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-25 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-06-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. 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
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 5654.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 23. Page 6643.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 292, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96d678a6-7397-4377-92fe-56d2c748ff9f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).