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type: "Bill"
title: "Health coverage: mental health or substance use disorders."
description: "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 disability insurers by the Department of Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 855"
citation: "California SB 855 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health coverage: mental health or substance use disorders."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 36
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/890bd7ff-911e-46bf-ac28-17453c0452cf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855"
source_hash: "b799300c5333f3bdece5d8f6038e6bc8babca40f8218f7c0c663b8817163a52c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 855 (20192020) — Health coverage: mental health or substance use disorders.
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 disability insurers by the Department of Insurance.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/14/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85599INT)
2. **05/05/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85598AMD)
3. **05/19/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85597AMD)
4. **06/18/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85596AMD)
5. **07/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85595AMD)
6. **08/06/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85594AMD)
7. **08/24/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85593AMD)
8. **09/25/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85591CHP)
9. **SB855** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855)
10. **09/03/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB855&version=20190SB85592ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 855 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Arambula — **63–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB855 Wiener et al. Concurrence Reconsider — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **14–1** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB855 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **31–7** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB855 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **30–8** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB855 Wiener et al. — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Wiener — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — principal coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Beall — principal coauthor (person)
- Chiu — principal coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Galgiani — coauthor (person)
- Glazer — coauthor (person)
- Hill — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14.
- **2020-01-22** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-05** 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`
- **2020-05-11** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2020-05-12** Referral to Com. on JUD. rescinded due to the shortened 2020 Legislative Calendar.
- **2020-05-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 3533.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-05-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-26** Set for hearing June 1.
- **2020-06-02** Hearing rescheduled due to Capitol closure.
- **2020-06-03** Set for hearing June 9.
- **2020-06-09** June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2020-06-11** Set for hearing June 18.
- **2020-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3766.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 5. Page 3862.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `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 13. 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`
- **2020-08-07** Coauthors revised.
- **2020-08-18** August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (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`
- **2020-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 1. Page 5221.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-08-30** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Wiener.
- **2020-08-30** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.)
- **2020-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 7.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 151, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/890bd7ff-911e-46bf-ac28-17453c0452cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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