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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care: unified health care financing."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 770"
citation: "California SB 770 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care", "unified health care financing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e287c090-539d-4c6d-a426-f853c1449b68"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770"
source_hash: "52e352b4c351623fac83b9a2ed2ca6528038757f82b0c1f27d503e5b19f8e683"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77099INT)
2. **03/20/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77098AMD)
3. **04/11/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77097AMD)
4. **04/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77096AMD)
5. **09/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77095AMD)
6. **09/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77094AMD)
7. **10/07/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77092CHP)
8. **SB770** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770)
9. **09/19/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB770&version=20230SB77093ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **72** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **104** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **94** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB770 Wiener et al. — **309** (pass) · upper
- SB 770 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Schiavo — **4718** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB770 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **299** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e287c090-539d-4c6d-a426-f853c1449b68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).