republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-255.md

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Bill	Health care coverage: employer associations.	(1) Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law regulates individual, small employer, and large employer health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 255	California SB 255 (20212022)	bill	Health care coverage: employer associations.	enacted	Portantino	8	36	8	2021-01-26	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/6aaa442a-9c20-488b-af3d-dae8376f47bd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB255	f75c08e9b67661573dab84253ad72634b4242bc67fa62dcbf718b1e2f92ed29a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 255 (20212022) — Health care coverage: employer associations.

(1) Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law regulates individual, small employer, and large employer health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 01/26/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB255 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB255 Portantino et al. Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB255 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 255 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Burke — 78–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Kamlager — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-01-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
• 2021-02-03 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 14.
• 2021-04-12 April 14 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-13 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 876.) (April 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-06 May 10 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-05-07 Set for hearing May 17.
• 2021-05-17 May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-18 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1185.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1349.) 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
• 2021-06-14 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
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 2885.) 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 38. Noes 0. Page 2546.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 725, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6aaa442a-9c20-488b-af3d-dae8376f47bd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).