(1) Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care market reforms. 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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a group or individual health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after September 23, 2010, to comply with the requirements of the PPACA, and any rules or regulations issued under the PPACA, that require a group health plan and health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to, at a minimum, provide coverage for specified preventive services, and prohibits the plan or health insurance issuer from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for those preventive services. Existing law also prohibits a plan or health insurer offering group or individual coverage from imposing lifetime or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for a participant, beneficiary, or insured. Existing law requires a plan and a health insurance issuer to comply with those provisions to the extent required by federal law.
California SB 406 (20192020) — Health care: omnibus bill.
(1) Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care market reforms. 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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a group or individual health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, renewed, or delivered on or after September 23, 2010, to comply with the requirements of the PPACA, and any rules or regulations issued under the PPACA, that require a group health plan and health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to, at a minimum, provide coverage for specified preventive services, and prohibits the plan or health insurance issuer from imposing any cost-sharing requirements for those preventive services. Existing law also prohibits a plan or health insurer offering group or individual coverage from imposing lifetime or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for a participant, beneficiary, or insured. Existing law requires a plan and a health insurance issuer to comply with those provisions to the extent required by federal law.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB406 Pan et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
SB 406 Pan Third Reading Urgency By Wood — 72–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Pan — primary (person)
Bates — coauthor (person)
Grove — author (person)
Hurtado — author (person)
Lena Gonzalez — author (person)
Leyva — author (person)
Melendez — author (person)
Mitchell — author (person)
Monning — author (person)
Rubio — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2019-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-12-20 Set for hearing January 8.
2020-01-06 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
2020-01-06 (Corrected January 6).
2020-01-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3061.) (January 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2020-01-14 Set for hearing January 21.
2020-01-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2020-01-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2020-01-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3149.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2020-01-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2020-06-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2020-06-24 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
2020-07-27 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
2020-08-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2020-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2020-08-18 August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2020-08-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2020-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2020-08-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5308.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2020-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2020-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2020-08-31 From special consent calendar on motion of Senator Grove.
2020-08-31 Ordered to unfinished business.
2020-08-31 Urgency clause adopted.
2020-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 302, Statutes of 2020.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e403d647-d73d-40d9-adf4-60fada562ecb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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