republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1526.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program."
description: "Existing law establishes the California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program (MRMIP) that is administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) to provide major risk medical coverage to residents who have been rejected for coverage by at least one private health plan, as specified. Existing law creates the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund and continuously appropriates the fund to MRMIB for the purposes of MRMIP."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1526"
citation: "California AB 1526 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Monning"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2012-01-19"
last_action: "2012-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94a6fd56-9461-4727-a559-58803c064641"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526"
source_hash: "5ce0983d8563948d818413cbb34bf789e107141d82e6ad897dd30bd216f705bc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1526 (20112012) — California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program.

Existing law establishes the California Major Risk Medical Insurance Program (MRMIP) that is administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) to provide major risk medical coverage to residents who have been rejected for coverage by at least one private health plan, as specified. Existing law creates the Major Risk Medical Insurance Fund and continuously appropriates the fund to MRMIB for the purposes of MRMIP.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/19/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526&version=20110AB152699INT)
2. **03/20/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526&version=20110AB152698AMD)
3. **05/25/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526&version=20110AB152697AMD)
4. **06/20/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526&version=20110AB152696AMD)
5. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526&version=20110AB152695AMD)
6. **09/30/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526&version=20110AB152693CHP)
7. **AB1526** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526)
8. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1526&version=20110AB152694ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1526 MONNING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **71–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **16–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1526 Monning By Alquist — **33–3** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1526 MONNING Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- From Committee: That the measure be returned to the Senate floor for consideration. — **8–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Monning — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-01-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-20** From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
- **2012-01-26** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5101.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-14** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-27** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-27** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2012-08-29** From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (August 29). `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-29** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 5024.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 6. Page 6690.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 855, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94a6fd56-9461-4727-a559-58803c064641`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).