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 health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits, until January 1, 2024, an individual or group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2015, that provides coverage for prescribed, orally administered anticancer medications used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells from requiring an enrollee or insured to pay a total amount of copayments and coinsurance that exceeds $250 for an individual prescription of up to a 30-day supply of a prescribed orally administered anticancer medication, as specified.
California SB 421 (20232024) — Health care coverage: cancer 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 health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits, until January 1, 2024, an individual or group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2015, that provides coverage for prescribed, orally administered anticancer medications used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells from requiring an enrollee or insured to pay a total amount of copayments and coinsurance that exceeds $250 for an individual prescription of up to a 30-day supply of a prescribed orally administered anticancer medication, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Special Consent SB421 Limón et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar — 36–0 (pass) · upper
SB 421 Limón Senate Third Reading By Pellerin — 75–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
SB 421 Limón Senate Third Reading By Pellerin Amendment Set #1 — 74–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Limón — primary (person)
Rubio — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2023-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2023-03-16 Set for hearing March 29.
2023-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 575.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 10.
2023-04-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
2023-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2023-04-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 700.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-04-17 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2023-05-04 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2023-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2023-06-26 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
2023-06-26 Ordered to third reading.
2023-08-17 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2739.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-08-17 Ordered to third reading.
2023-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2793.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-08-24 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2023-08-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2023-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2240.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 607, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e972aab-7d06-446f-a4ca-8476d74a458f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).