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. Existing state law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange, also known as Covered California, within state government. Existing law specifies the powers and duties of the board to implement Covered California. Existing law generally authorizes the board to adopt any necessary rules and regulations as emergency regulations until January 1, 2017, and to adopt regulations to implement the eligibility, enrollment, and appeals processes for the individual and small business exchanges, changes to the small business exchange, and other specified provisions as emergency regulations, until January 1, 2019. Existing law authorizes the Office of Administrative Law, until January 1, 2020, to approve more than 2 readoptions of the emergency regulations adopted by the board.
California SB 1245 (20172018) — Covered California.
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. Existing state law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange, also known as Covered California, within state government. Existing law specifies the powers and duties of the board to implement Covered California. Existing law generally authorizes the board to adopt any necessary rules and regulations as emergency regulations until January 1, 2017, and to adopt regulations to implement the eligibility, enrollment, and appeals processes for the individual and small business exchanges, changes to the small business exchange, and other specified provisions as emergency regulations, until January 1, 2019. Existing law authorizes the Office of Administrative Law, until January 1, 2020, to approve more than 2 readoptions of the emergency regulations adopted by the board.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
SB 1245 Leyva Senate Third Reading By LIMÓN — 54–23 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–3 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Leyva — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2018-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2018-03-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2018-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2018-04-06 Set for hearing April 18.
2018-04-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2018-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 4746.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-05-09 Set for hearing May 14.
2018-05-14 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2018-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 4220.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2018-05-31 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 23. Page 6399.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-21 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2018-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2018-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 417, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6cd0e7c1-2f4a-49c8-8abf-e95402e8fc34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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