Health insurance: discriminatory practices: mental health.
Existing federal law generally requires a health insurance issuer that offers group or individual health insurance coverage that provides both medical and surgical benefits and mental health or substance use disorder benefits to establish parity in the terms and conditions applicable to medical and mental health benefits, as specified. Existing state law subjects nongrandfathered individual and small group health insurance policies that provide coverage for essential health benefits to those provisions of federal law governing mental health parity. Existing law requires every policy of disability insurance that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses in this state to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses of a person of any age, and of serious emotional disturbances of a child, as specified.
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SB 374
California SB 374 (20172018)
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Health insurance: discriminatory practices: mental health.
California SB 374 (20172018) — Health insurance: discriminatory practices: mental health.
Existing federal law generally requires a health insurance issuer that offers group or individual health insurance coverage that provides both medical and surgical benefits and mental health or substance use disorder benefits to establish parity in the terms and conditions applicable to medical and mental health benefits, as specified. Existing state law subjects nongrandfathered individual and small group health insurance policies that provide coverage for essential health benefits to those provisions of federal law governing mental health parity. Existing law requires every policy of disability insurance that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses in this state to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses of a person of any age, and of serious emotional disturbances of a child, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB374 Newman Concurrence — 36–0 (pass) · upper
SB 374 Newman Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Newman — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2017-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2017-03-07 Set for hearing March 29.
2017-03-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 559.) (March 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2017-04-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
2017-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
2017-04-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2017-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-04-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 798.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-04-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2017-05-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2017-06-12 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
2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-07-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2474.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-07-06 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2017-07-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2019.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2017-07-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
2017-07-31 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-07-31 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 162, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ccca945-7a38-4111-a746-ade4cef8b33a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).