republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-260.md

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Bill	Automatic health care coverage enrollment.	Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing state law creates the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) , also known as Covered California, to facilitate the enrollment of qualified individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans as required under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires an entity making eligibility determinations for an insurance affordability program to ensure that an eligible applicant and recipient meets all program eligibility requirements and complies with all necessary requests for information. Under existing law, if an individual is ineligible for an insurance affordability program for a reason other than income eligibility, that individual is to be referred to the county health coverage program in the individual's county of residence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 260	California SB 260 (20192020)	bill	Automatic health care coverage enrollment.	enacted	Hurtado	8	29	8	2019-02-12	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/b100d66d-97e9-42b0-be1d-03f29fb23763	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB260	1f85ab451d44328fed6a6ba3e30955e56984cc290b38e4436f88f8e3cbf04fdd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 260 (20192020) — Automatic health care coverage enrollment.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing state law creates the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) , also known as Covered California, to facilitate the enrollment of qualified individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans as required under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires an entity making eligibility determinations for an insurance affordability program to ensure that an eligible applicant and recipient meets all program eligibility requirements and complies with all necessary requests for information. Under existing law, if an individual is ineligible for an insurance affordability program for a reason other than income eligibility, that individual is to be referred to the county health coverage program in the individual's county of residence.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/26/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB260 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB260 Hurtado Concurrence — 32–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 31–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 260 Hurtado Senate Third Reading By Bonta — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hurtado — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-02-13 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
• 2019-02-21 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-05 Set for hearing March 20.
• 2019-03-18 March 20 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-03-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2019-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 576.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1094.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 1183.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-30 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3263.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 2842.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 845, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b100d66d-97e9-42b0-be1d-03f29fb23763. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).