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Bill	Biomarker testing.	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 requires an individual or group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after July 1, 2000, to provide coverage for all generally medically accepted cancer screening tests.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 535	California SB 535 (20212022)	bill	Biomarker testing.	enacted	Limón	7	29	8	2021-02-17	2021-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/5590ad4b-ae9c-40d5-9ce3-aea5eb9c72e9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB535	946a1002efea4f0a60147c9f791ac3d1a5d63fafad68427ab250c0fdae98f6da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 535 (20212022) — Biomarker testing.

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 requires an individual or group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after July 1, 2000, to provide coverage for all generally medically accepted cancer screening tests.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/08/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB535 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 535 Limón Senate Third Reading By Lorena Gonzalez — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB535 Limón et al. Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB535 Limón et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
• Lorena Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 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.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2021-04-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 877.) (April 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-26 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.
• 2021-05-10 May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1195.) (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
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1323.) 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
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, 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. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2692.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-07 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2454.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 605, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5590ad4b-ae9c-40d5-9ce3-aea5eb9c72e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).