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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care provider reimbursements."
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 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 242"
citation: "California SB 242 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care provider reimbursements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newman"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f1f53d3-b8d3-475e-ad72-d7a5f917d6dc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242"
source_hash: "6d2d61304a263f15896a41bbc55621bbc2cfcad9cf96316b9dea4afc41f46b49"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242&version=20210SB24299INT)
2. **03/15/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242&version=20210SB24298AMD)
3. **04/13/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242&version=20210SB24297AMD)
4. **08/16/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242&version=20210SB24296AMD)
5. **08/30/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242&version=20210SB24295AMD)
6. **10/05/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242&version=20210SB24293CHP)
7. **SB242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242)
8. **09/13/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB242&version=20210SB24294ENR)
## Votes
- SB 242 Newman Senate Third Reading By Robert Rivas — **5811** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB242 Newman et al. Concurrence — **299** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB242 Newman et al. Urgency Clause — **308** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **124** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **82** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **111** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f1f53d3-b8d3-475e-ad72-d7a5f917d6dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).