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Bill	Health care: unified health care financing.	Prior state law established the Healthy California for All Commission for the purpose of developing a plan towards the goal of achieving a health care delivery system in California that provides coverage and access through a unified health care financing system for all Californians, including, among other options, a single-payer financing system.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 770	California SB 770 (20232024)	bill	Health care unified health care financing	enacted	Wiener	9	30	8	2023-02-17	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/e287c090-539d-4c6d-a426-f853c1449b68	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770	52e352b4c351623fac83b9a2ed2ca6528038757f82b0c1f27d503e5b19f8e683	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 770 (20232024) — Health care: unified health care financing.

Prior state law established the Healthy California for All Commission for the purpose of developing a plan towards the goal of achieving a health care delivery system in California that provides coverage and access through a unified health care financing system for all Californians, including, among other options, a single-payer financing system.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB770 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/19/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 9–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB770 Wiener et al. — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• SB 770 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Schiavo — 47–18 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB770 Wiener et al. Concurrence — 29–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Connolly — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — author (person)
• Menjivar — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)
• Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
• Zbur — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2023-04-11 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
• 2023-04-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 832.) (April 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2023-05-01 May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1183.) (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. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 1350.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 July 12 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 18. Page 3388.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2797.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e287c090-539d-4c6d-a426-f853c1449b68. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).