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Bill	Health care service plans and health insurance: third-party payments.	Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. These provisions govern, among other things, procedures by health care service plans and insurers with respect to premium payments.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 290	California AB 290 (20192020)	bill	Health care service plans and health insurance: third-party payments.	enacted	Wood	9	26	8	2019-01-28	2019-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ec012386-a7d3-4100-811f-fc1a5a6c74a9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB290	064888c33e92b35407747675b1463b29c637a61e0e1143da2098557e07a4334b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 290 (20192020) — Health care service plans and health insurance: third-party payments.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. These provisions govern, among other things, procedures by health care service plans and insurers with respect to premium payments.

Version chain

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

1. 01/28/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/05/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/13/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB290 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB290 Wood et al. By Leyva — 21–13 (pass) · upper
• AB 290 Wood Assembly Third Reading — 46–15 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 290 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 47–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-28 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-29 From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
• 2019-02-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-06 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (March 19). 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
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 15. Page 1801.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-09-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-09-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 13. Page 2679.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 47. Noes 20. Page 3268.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 862, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec012386-a7d3-4100-811f-fc1a5a6c74a9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).