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Bill	Health care coverage: health care provider credentials.	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's requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of disability and health insurers by the Department of Insurance.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1041	California AB 1041 (20252026)	bill	Healthcarecoverage healthcareprovidercredentials	enacted	Bennett	9	27	8	2025-02-20	2025-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/977356a0-8c02-43af-9c37-2b6743d7e841	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041	dcd9b2ca086b09362d1d888a39bdbddf0cdc96eac509987ac0b5b6af25be7df9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1041 (20252026) — Health care coverage: health care provider credentials.

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's requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of disability and health insurers by the Department of Insurance.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/07/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1041 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1041 Bennett et al. By Menjivar — 30–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1041 Bennett Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1041 Bennett Assembly Third Reading — 61–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bennett — primary (person)
• Addis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 2. Page 2011.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 2587.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 3115.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 630, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/977356a0-8c02-43af-9c37-2b6743d7e841. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).