republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1962.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental plans: medical loss ratios: reports."
description: "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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to comply with specified minimum medical loss ratios and requires a plan or insurer to provide an annual rebate to enrollees and insureds if the ratio of the amount of premium revenue expended by the plan or insurer on specified costs to the total amount of premium revenue is less than a certain percentage. Existing law specifies that these requirements do not apply to specialized health care service plan contracts or specialized health insurance policies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1962"
citation: "California AB 1962 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Dental plans: medical loss ratios: reports."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2014-02-19"
last_action: "2014-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dba6574d-d096-456b-b5e8-07d5bc9243a7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962"
source_hash: "7603964cdf02e48a6f196d0009247abd1f5bc33905c5ad66c3f4ea8bf1c7face"
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 1962 (20132014) — Dental plans: medical loss ratios: reports.

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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to comply with specified minimum medical loss ratios and requires a plan or insurer to provide an annual rebate to enrollees and insureds if the ratio of the amount of premium revenue expended by the plan or insurer on specified costs to the total amount of premium revenue is less than a certain percentage. Existing law specifies that these requirements do not apply to specialized health care service plan contracts or specialized health insurance policies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962&version=20130AB196299INT)
2. **04/22/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962&version=20130AB196298AMD)
3. **05/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962&version=20130AB196297AMD)
4. **08/04/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962&version=20130AB196296AMD)
5. **09/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962&version=20130AB196294CHP)
6. **AB1962** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962)
7. **08/26/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1962&version=20130AB196295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **13–2** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **15–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1962 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1962 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1962 Skinner By Hernandez — **32–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Skinner — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Berryhill — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
- Nestande — coauthor (person)
- Pan — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2014-03-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 3.) (April 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5258.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-05** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-08-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 4727.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-22** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6347.)
- **2014-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6362.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 567, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dba6574d-d096-456b-b5e8-07d5bc9243a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).