republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014-special-session-1/ab-2.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage."
description: "(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for that coverage and to renew that coverage at the option of the plan sponsor or the individual. PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage from imposing any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to that plan or coverage. PPACA allows the premium rate charged by a health insurance issuer offering small group or individual coverage to vary only by rating area, age, tobacco use, and whether the coverage is for an individual or family and prohibits discrimination against individuals based on health status, as specified. PPACA requires an issuer to consider all enrollees in its individual market plans to be part of a single risk pool and to consider all enrollees in its small group market plans to be part of a single risk pool, as specified. PPACA also requires each state to, by January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014 Special Session 1"
identifier: "AB 2"
citation: "California AB 2 (20132014 Special Session 1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-01-29"
last_action: "2013-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bc309a1-ad89-42e3-84e1-45fefc05ae52"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2"
source_hash: "6fd2336d505187be6bdbe0b1fd601bc77bfa3e51942ac9645106936e5b0b221a"
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 2 (20132014 Special Session 1) — Health care coverage.

(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the individual or group market in a state to accept every employer and individual in the state that applies for that coverage and to renew that coverage at the option of the plan sponsor or the individual. PPACA prohibits a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage from imposing any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to that plan or coverage. PPACA allows the premium rate charged by a health insurance issuer offering small group or individual coverage to vary only by rating area, age, tobacco use, and whether the coverage is for an individual or family and prohibits discrimination against individuals based on health status, as specified. PPACA requires an issuer to consider all enrollees in its individual market plans to be part of a single risk pool and to consider all enrollees in its small group market plans to be part of a single risk pool, as specified. PPACA also requires each state to, by January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/29/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2&version=20131AB299INT)
2. **03/07/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2&version=20131AB298AMD)
3. **03/21/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2&version=20131AB297AMD)
4. **04/01/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2&version=20131AB296AMD)
5. **05/09/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2&version=20131AB294CHP)
6. **AB2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2)
7. **05/01/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320141AB2&version=20131AB295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–6** (pass) · lower
- AB 2 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–25** (pass) · lower
- AB 2 PAN Assembly Third Reading — **53–25** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2 Pan By Hernandez — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-30** From printer.
- **2013-02-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (February 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-02-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (February 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-02-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-02-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 40.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-02-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-03-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-03-21** 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-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** 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-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 56.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after April 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-04-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 98.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:55 p.m.
- **2013-05-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1, Statutes of 2013-14 First Extraordinary Session.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bc309a1-ad89-42e3-84e1-45fefc05ae52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).