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Bill	Health insurance: small employer groups.	Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms. Among other things, PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from applying a waiting period that exceeds 90 days.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 1375	California SB 1375 (20172018)	bill	Health insurance: small employer groups.	enacted	Hernandez	9	29	6	2018-02-16	2018-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/0a690b37-c141-4020-bc47-6180bd376f70	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1375	bd09a627f5fec9bb663f4a3389d976869afced0cb9f45deecce4f8de34d0f5fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1375 (20172018) — Health insurance: small employer groups.

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms. Among other things, PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from applying a waiting period that exceeds 90 days.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/08/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/09/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/22/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB1375 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1375 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD — 57–22 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB1375 Hernandez et al. — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1375 Hernandez et al. Concurrence — 27–12 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 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.
• 2018-04-12 April 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-04-13 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2018-04-17 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
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 4853.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-14 Set for hearing May 22.
• 2018-05-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 4339.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-04 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 22. Page 6584.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 5870.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 700, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a690b37-c141-4020-bc47-6180bd376f70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).