(1) Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care market reforms. 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 PPACA. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires the Exchange to administer a program of health care coverage financial assistance to help low-income and middle-income Californians. Existing law exempted the program design of financial assistance and a related regulation, standard, criterion, procedure, determination, rule, notice, guideline, or any other guidance established or issued by the Exchange or Franchise Tax Board from the Administrative Procedure Act until January 1, 2022.
(1) Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care market reforms. 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 PPACA. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires the Exchange to administer a program of health care coverage financial assistance to help low-income and middle-income Californians. Existing law exempted the program design of financial assistance and a related regulation, standard, criterion, procedure, determination, rule, notice, guideline, or any other guidance established or issued by the Exchange or Franchise Tax Board from the Administrative Procedure Act until January 1, 2022.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 184 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — 60–18 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB184 B. & F.R. (Skinner) Concurrence — 28–8 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-01-08 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2021-01-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
2021-01-11 Read first time. reading-1
2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
2021-02-16 Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 26. Noes 5. Page 201.)
2021-02-16 Ordered to second reading.
2021-02-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-02-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 296.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-02-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
2021-02-25 (Corrected May 14).
2022-06-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-06-27 Assembly Rules suspended.
2022-06-27 (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 5550.)
2022-06-27 Withdrawn from committee.
2022-06-27 Ordered to second reading.
2022-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-06-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 18. Page 5615.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-06-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2022-06-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 4542.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-06-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
2022-06-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-06-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 47, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/239d534f-9f3d-4403-b921-1b46ceed4368. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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