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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health care coverage."
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description: "Existing law, the federal Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, requires a group health plan to permit an eligible person to enroll for coverage under the plan if the person's coverage under Medicaid or under a state child health plan was terminated, as specified, and the person applies for coverage under the group health plan not later than 60 days after that termination."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20092010"
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identifier: "AB 1541"
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citation: "California AB 1541 (20092010)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Health care coverage."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2009-03-04"
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last_action: "2009-10-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e12a7cd4-84bb-494d-b1ee-81e6bf72100d"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541"
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source_hash: "02148fb028da0ceca4c3bcef2119a9d7e51ec92728b0e55fbc8d72e36f64565e"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1541 (20092010) — Health care coverage.
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Existing law, the federal Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, requires a group health plan to permit an eligible person to enroll for coverage under the plan if the person's coverage under Medicaid or under a state child health plan was terminated, as specified, and the person applies for coverage under the group health plan not later than 60 days after that termination.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **03/04/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154199INT)
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2. **05/05/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154198AMD)
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3. **05/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154197AMD)
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4. **06/11/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154196AMD)
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5. **06/16/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154195AMD)
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6. **07/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154194AMD)
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7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154192CHP)
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8. **AB1541** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541)
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9. **09/10/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1541&version=20090AB154193ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1541 HEALTH Assembly Third Reading By JONES — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1541 Committee on HEALTH (Jones) By Alquist — **pass** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1541 HEALTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments By JONES — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Committee on Health — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2009-03-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2009-03-05** From printer. May be heard in committee April 4.
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- **2009-04-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-05-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2009-05-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-05-12** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2009-05-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-14** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-05-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2009-05-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1754.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2009-06-11** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
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- **2009-06-16** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
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- **2009-06-22** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2009-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2009-06-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2009-07-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2009-07-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2009-07-23** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-07-23** (Corrected September 8.)
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- **2009-08-18** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
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- **2009-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2009-09-02** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2103.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2009-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2009-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3106.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2009-09-29** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 542, Statutes of 2009.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e12a7cd4-84bb-494d-b1ee-81e6bf72100d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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