republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2198.md

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Bill	Health information.	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's requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers, commencing January 1, 2024, to establish and maintain specified application programming interfaces (API) , including patient access API, for the benefit of enrollees, insureds, and contracted providers. Existing law authorizes the departments to require health care service plans or health insurers, as applicable, to establish and maintain provider access API and prior authorization support API if and when final federal rules are published .	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2198	California AB 2198 (20232024)	bill	Health information	enacted	Flora	8	27	6	2024-02-07	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/fc673736-43d1-41f5-9b28-360671acb58f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2198	0714fb5d54796773f680d7d50c2abc8e078c6c5fc18199863af29fbd0963f339	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2198 (20232024) — Health information.

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's requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers, commencing January 1, 2024, to establish and maintain specified application programming interfaces (API) , including patient access API, for the benefit of enrollees, insureds, and contracted providers. Existing law authorizes the departments to require health care service plans or health insurers, as applicable, to establish and maintain provider access API and prior authorization support API if and when final federal rules are published .

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/29/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/17/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2198 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2198 Flora Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2198 Flora By Glazer — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2198 Flora Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Flora — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2024-02-26 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-03-25 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-04-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-15 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5444.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-06-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 386, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc673736-43d1-41f5-9b28-360671acb58f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).