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Bill	Long-term care insurance.	Existing law establishes the California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, to link private long-term care insurance policies and health care service plan contracts that cover long-term care with the In-Home Supportive Services Program and the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires a long-term care insurance policy or a health care service plan contract to contain certain provisions certified by the department, including protection against loss of benefits due to inflation and a periodic record issued to the insured. Existing law requires an applicant to be offered one option that provides, at a minimum, protection against inflation that automatically increases benefit levels by 5% each year over the previous year, as specified, and at least one lower-cost option.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2604	California AB 2604 (20212022)	bill	Long-term care insurance.	enacted	Calderon	7	27	8	2022-02-18	2022-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/595cd078-8e10-4536-9efc-cea18047987f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2604	6ec663c2e42eb9b91e94e864ac219fedeacec667faf51049401286799c16dfaf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2604 (20212022) — Long-term care insurance.

Existing law establishes the California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, to link private long-term care insurance policies and health care service plan contracts that cover long-term care with the In-Home Supportive Services Program and the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires a long-term care insurance policy or a health care service plan contract to contain certain provisions certified by the department, including protection against loss of benefits due to inflation and a periodic record issued to the insured. Existing law requires an applicant to be offered one option that provides, at a minimum, protection against inflation that automatically increases benefit levels by 5% each year over the previous year, as specified, and at least one lower-cost option.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2604 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2604 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2604 Calderon By Dodd — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2604 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Coms. on AGING & L.T.C. and INS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5035.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Coms. on INS. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-08 From Consent Calendar.
• 2022-08-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5207.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 534, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/595cd078-8e10-4536-9efc-cea18047987f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).