(1) 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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law provides for the regulation of individual, small employer, grandfathered small employer, and nongrandfathered small employer health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies, as defined.
California SB 718 (20212022) — Health care coverage: small employer groups.
(1) 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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law provides for the regulation of individual, small employer, grandfathered small employer, and nongrandfathered small 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.
2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2021-03-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-03-18 Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and APPR. referral-committee
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.
2021-04-21 April 21 hearing postponed by committee.
2021-04-22 Set for hearing April 28.
2021-05-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 956.) (April 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-05-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-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. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1201.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1347.) 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
2021-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-06-29 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 and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2895.) 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 2589.) 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 736, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/475a211a-9e90-4785-86e5-594b0ed05c62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).