republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-224.md

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Bill	Health care coverage: essential health benefits.	Existing law requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law requires an individual or small group health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires a health insurance policy to cover the same health benefits that the benchmark plan, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Small Group HMO 30 plan, offered during the first quarter of 2014, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 224	California AB 224 (20252026)	bill	Healthcarecoverage essentialhealthbenefits	enacted	Bonta	6	23	8	2025-01-09	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/a7940e18-3065-4b49-b194-b41be3b5a09e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB224	8e935f9d2ca850b7077438ceb4295df9fc2dcd25f7a6642b89e77351472a8188	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 224 (20252026) — Health care coverage: essential health benefits.

Existing law requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law requires an individual or small group health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires a health insurance policy to cover the same health benefits that the benchmark plan, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Small Group HMO 30 plan, offered during the first quarter of 2014, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/09/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB224 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 224 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB224 Bonta et al. By Menjivar — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 224 Bonta Assembly Third Reading — 60–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)
• Menjivar — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-01-10 From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 1. Page 1782.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 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
• 2025-07-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2464.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3013.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 680, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a7940e18-3065-4b49-b194-b41be3b5a09e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).