republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-159.md

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Bill	Health.	(1) Existing law establishes the Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund and authorizes the Controller to use funds in the Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund for cashflow loans to the General Fund. Existing law authorizes a loan from the Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund to the General Fund and requires the loan to be repaid in the 2025–26 fiscal year.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 159	California SB 159 (20232024)	bill appropriation	Health	enacted	Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review	5	20	3	2023-01-18	2024-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/1b92b261-a471-4d11-b7d3-a0e9a4e78f21	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB159	8a34d1b02e567ea5d2078e28df50932435a34ee37037c3fb9571a486a78c703e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 159 (20232024) — Health.

(1) Existing law establishes the Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund and authorizes the Controller to use funds in the Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund for cashflow loans to the General Fund. Existing law authorizes a loan from the Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund to the General Fund and requires the loan to be repaid in the 2025–26 fiscal year.

Version chain

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

1. 01/18/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/24/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB159 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB159 B. & F.R. — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB159 B. & F.R. (Wiener) Concurrence — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• SB 159 Budget and Fiscal Review Senate Third Reading By GABRIEL — 59–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-01-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
• 2023-01-25 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 357.)
• 2023-03-16 Ordered to second reading.
• 2023-03-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 505.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-03-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-03-30 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 14. Page 5978.)
• 2024-06-24 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2024-06-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2024-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 10. Page 6075.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-06-27 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 4823.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-06-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-06-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 40, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b92b261-a471-4d11-b7d3-a0e9a4e78f21. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).