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Bill	Health care service plans: regulations: exemptions.	Existing federal law defines a voluntary employees' beneficiary association as an organization composed of a voluntary association of employees that provides for the payment of life, sick, accident, or similar benefits to members, their dependents, or designated beneficiaries. Existing federal law defines a welfare plan as any plan, fund, or program established or maintained by an employer or employee organization, or both, for the purpose of providing participants or their beneficiaries specified benefits, such as medical, surgical, or hospital care or benefits. Existing law further defines a multiemployer plan as a plan to which more than one employer is required to contribute, that is maintained pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements between one or more employee organizations and more than one employer, and that meets other specified requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1124	California AB 1124 (20192020)	bill	Health care service plans: regulations: exemptions.	enacted	Maienschein	11	41	10	2019-02-21	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/70928202-dd85-4de7-846a-7e7c56d5e2cb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1124	5bb17c425e136a7894442fb6206592a30df30dd30b8ca6ab7bb62c3bf37986b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1124 (20192020) — Health care service plans: regulations: exemptions.

Existing federal law defines a voluntary employees' beneficiary association as an organization composed of a voluntary association of employees that provides for the payment of life, sick, accident, or similar benefits to members, their dependents, or designated beneficiaries. Existing federal law defines a welfare plan as any plan, fund, or program established or maintained by an employer or employee organization, or both, for the purpose of providing participants or their beneficiaries specified benefits, such as medical, surgical, or hospital care or benefits. Existing law further defines a multiemployer plan as a plan to which more than one employer is required to contribute, that is maintained pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements between one or more employee organizations and more than one employer, and that meets other specified requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/24/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/12/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1124 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1124 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1124 Maienschein By Portantino — 29–6 (pass) · upper
• AB 1124 Maienschein Third Reading Urgency — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1509.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-06-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-15 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McGuire.
• 2020-03-11 From inactive file.
• 2020-03-11 Ordered to second reading.
• 2020-03-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2020-06-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2020-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 6.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5372.)
• 2020-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5477.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 266, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70928202-dd85-4de7-846a-7e7c56d5e2cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).