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Bill	Health care coverage: enrollment periods.	Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health benefit plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. PPACA requires an American Health Benefit Exchange to provide for an annual open enrollment period for the individual market for policy years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, to begin on November 1 and extend through December 15 of the calendar year preceding the benefit year. Existing federal law establishes special enrollment periods during which a qualified individual may enroll in a qualified health plan when specified triggering events occur, such as when the qualified individual loses minimum essential coverage, as defined. Existing federal regulatory authority authorizes a state to establish additional special enrollment periods to supplement these special enrollment periods provided for under federal law under certain circumstances.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1309	California AB 1309 (20192020)	bill	Health care coverage: enrollment periods.	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	8	28	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/28286f50-7b2e-4442-a6fc-6e1070f866ed	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1309	43bbe25d1b5dd2b80522b95a5904cc9e38eae7fb711401f549437a29c59e7e86	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1309 (20192020) — Health care coverage: enrollment periods.

Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health benefit plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. PPACA requires an American Health Benefit Exchange to provide for an annual open enrollment period for the individual market for policy years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, to begin on November 1 and extend through December 15 of the calendar year preceding the benefit year. Existing federal law establishes special enrollment periods during which a qualified individual may enroll in a qualified health plan when specified triggering events occur, such as when the qualified individual loses minimum essential coverage, as defined. Existing federal regulatory authority authorizes a state to establish additional special enrollment periods to supplement these special enrollment periods provided for under federal law under certain circumstances.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/09/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1309 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/06/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1309 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Jackson — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1309 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1309 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — 66–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 5. Page 2025.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2457.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3036.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 828, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28286f50-7b2e-4442-a6fc-6e1070f866ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).