republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-1320.md

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Bill	Mental health and substance use disorder treatment.	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 disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, as defined, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1320	California SB 1320 (20232024)	bill	Mental health and substance use disorder treatment	enacted	Wahab	5	23	5	2024-02-16	2024-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/80f8cb90-03a4-478c-a8d3-555ccf3d7f1a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1320	eda7455e6b517be33b3d12f586bb5e9080e9d1501f00129ee50d6ca7f75bb44c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1320 (20232024) — Mental health and substance use disorder treatment.

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 disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, as defined, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/15/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1320 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1320 Wahab Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wahab — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2024-03-18 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
• 2024-03-21 April 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-03-26 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2024-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3562.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3773.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-06 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6038.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-07-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 135, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80f8cb90-03a4-478c-a8d3-555ccf3d7f1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).