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Bill	Health care coverage: behavioral diagnoses.	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 a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 951	California AB 951 (20252026)	bill	Healthcarecoverage behavioraldiagnoses	enacted	Ta	5	20	6	2025-02-20	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/b60e4e1c-8ec9-446b-a267-c377ad33b87a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB951	356338e5db42119213679b3693ae663656c56cb39cea7126f90afa38d0978e6d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 951 (20252026) — Health care coverage: behavioral diagnoses.

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 a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/30/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB951 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB951 Ta et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 951 Ta Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 951 Ta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ta — primary (person)
• Alanis — coauthor (person)
• DeMaio — coauthor (person)
• Menjivar — coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — 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
• 2025-03-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. 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 APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-08 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2043.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-07-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2532.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 84, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b60e4e1c-8ec9-446b-a267-c377ad33b87a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).