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Bill	Health care provider reimbursements.	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 authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to contract with a provider for alternative rates of payment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 242	California SB 242 (20212022)	bill	Health care provider reimbursements.	enacted	Newman	8	27	8	2021-01-21	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/0f1f53d3-b8d3-475e-ad72-d7a5f917d6dc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242	6d2d61304a263f15896a41bbc55621bbc2cfcad9cf96316b9dea4afc41f46b49	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 242 (20212022) — Health care provider reimbursements.

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 authorizes a health care service plan or health insurer to contract with a provider for alternative rates of payment.

Version chain

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

1. 01/21/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/16/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB242 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 242 Newman Senate Third Reading By Robert Rivas — 58–11 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB242 Newman et al. Concurrence — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB242 Newman et al. Urgency Clause — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Newman — primary (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-21 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-01-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 21.
• 2021-02-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-02-17 Set for hearing March 10.
• 2021-03-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 456.) (March 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-09 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1184.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 1329.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-07-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 August 26 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 11. Page 2912.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2554.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 538, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f1f53d3-b8d3-475e-ad72-d7a5f917d6dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).