Health care coverage: maternal and pandemic-related mental health conditions.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide specified mental health and substance use disorder coverage, and requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions, as specified. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers, by July 1, 2019, to develop, consistent with sound clinical principles and processes, a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes, as specified.
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SB 1207
California SB 1207 (20212022)
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Health care coverage: maternal and pandemic-related mental health conditions.
California SB 1207 (20212022) — Health care coverage: maternal and pandemic-related mental health conditions.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers to provide specified mental health and substance use disorder coverage, and requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions, as specified. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers, by July 1, 2019, to develop, consistent with sound clinical principles and processes, a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB1207 Portantino Concurrence — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
SB 1207 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Akilah Weber — 72–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading — 32–3 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Portantino — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2022-02-17 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
2022-02-18 From printer.
2022-03-02 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2022-03-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2022-04-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-04-14 Set for hearing April 27.
2022-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3542.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-04-29 Set for hearing May 9.
2022-05-09 May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
2022-05-13 Set for hearing May 19.
2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3788.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 3. Page 3871.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2022-05-27 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-08-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-08-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2022-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5272.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 618, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d25c6b9-6c92-4b0b-9bb3-55df1313252c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).