republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-594.md

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Bill	Student health insurance.	Existing law, for policy years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, requires student health insurance coverage, as defined, to be considered individual health insurance coverage. Existing law, except as specified, requires a blanket disability insurance policy that meets the definition of student health insurance coverage to comply with insurance provisions that are applicable to nongrandfathered individual health insurance, including, among others, essential health benefits requirements and annual limits on out-of-pocket expenses. Existing law exempts student health insurance coverage from certain requirements otherwise applicable to health insurers and health benefit plans, including the establishment of specified enrollment periods, guaranteed availability and renewability, specified coverage level requirements, and single risk pool rating requirements. Existing law requires a notice to be provided in the student health insurance enrollment materials stating that California requires residents and their dependents to obtain and maintain health coverage, either through student health insurance, or through a different method, including Medi-Cal, Covered California, or, if under 26 years of age, their parent's coverage.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 594	California AB 594 (20252026)	bill	Studenthealthinsurance	enacted	Solache	10	30	6	2025-02-12	2025-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/1337abd3-5a9c-40e1-b963-0089e6c267f5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB594	baddaab45b74ca43b90beb6c4870b4898289b4c67e1bd51b883f264e2866e2b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 594 (20252026) — Student health insurance.

Existing law, for policy years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, requires student health insurance coverage, as defined, to be considered individual health insurance coverage. Existing law, except as specified, requires a blanket disability insurance policy that meets the definition of student health insurance coverage to comply with insurance provisions that are applicable to nongrandfathered individual health insurance, including, among others, essential health benefits requirements and annual limits on out-of-pocket expenses. Existing law exempts student health insurance coverage from certain requirements otherwise applicable to health insurers and health benefit plans, including the establishment of specified enrollment periods, guaranteed availability and renewability, specified coverage level requirements, and single risk pool rating requirements. Existing law requires a notice to be provided in the student health insurance enrollment materials stating that California requires residents and their dependents to obtain and maintain health coverage, either through student health insurance, or through a different method, including Medi-Cal, Covered California, or, if under 26 years of age, their parent's coverage.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/07/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/03/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB594 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/27/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 594 Solache Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 594 Solache Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB594 Solache et al. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Solache — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2025-03-13 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 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
• 2025-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 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
• 2025-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1477.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-09 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
• 2025-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-26 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2025-06-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-14 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2137.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-17 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2725.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 272, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1337abd3-5a9c-40e1-b963-0089e6c267f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).