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Bill	Health care coverage: doulas.	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 a health care service plan or health insurer to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes. Existing law encourages a plan or insurer to include coverage for doulas.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 904	California AB 904 (20232024)	bill	Health care coverage doulas	enacted	Calderon	7	27	8	2023-02-14	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/605730ab-437b-47df-8de5-4882e6ee76da	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904	53854a6dee9284549dfe3e2b73f157dda95f78731a9b28ad627c1d75ce4061bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 904 (20232024) — Health care coverage: doulas.

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 a health care service plan or health insurer to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes. Existing law encourages a plan or insurer to include coverage for doulas.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/26/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB904 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB904 Calderon et al. By Rubio — 34–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 904 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 904 Calderon Assembly Third Reading — 67–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — author (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2023-02-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-05-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 1881.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 2634.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3336.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 349, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/605730ab-437b-47df-8de5-4882e6ee76da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).