republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-40.md

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Bill	Health care coverage: insulin.	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 health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, that covers prescription benefits to include coverage for insulin if it is determined to be medically necessary.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 40	California SB 40 (20252026)	bill	Healthcarecoverage insulin	enacted	Wiener	10	31	8	2024-12-03	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/294080bb-5004-4f7f-a519-57fea4da8dcc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB40	71b3ac194534babb859794e0283528e96f7825990651975ed2bfa8da022e587c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 40 (20252026) — Health care coverage: insulin.

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 health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2000, that covers prescription benefits to include coverage for insulin if it is determined to be medically necessary.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB40 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 40 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Bains — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB40 Wiener et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB40 Wiener et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Bains — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
• Wahab — author (person)
• Weber Pierson — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-03 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2024-12-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.
• 2025-01-06 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-01-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 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
• 2025-03-25 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 635.) (April 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2025-04-21 April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1189.) (May 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1280.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 June 24 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-06-27 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
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-29 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2865.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2709.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 737, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/294080bb-5004-4f7f-a519-57fea4da8dcc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).