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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage."
description: "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 establishes annual limits on deductibles for employer-sponsored plans and defines bronze, silver, gold, and platinum levels of coverage for the nongrandfathered individual and small group markets."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 639"
citation: "California SB 639 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 41
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ca8d8ef-37f2-46a6-8a51-1e1c0ea44546"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639"
source_hash: "cb3d3b286fd9ce30cc867d4f538ba0f538fc7fd4d5d594a02a0ac872cc34d25f"
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 SB 639 (20132014) — Health care coverage.
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 establishes annual limits on deductibles for employer-sponsored plans and defines bronze, silver, gold, and platinum levels of coverage for the nongrandfathered individual and small group markets.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63999INT)
2. **04/01/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63998AMD)
3. **04/09/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63997AMD)
4. **05/28/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63996AMD)
5. **08/06/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63995AMD)
6. **09/03/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63994AMD)
7. **09/06/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63993AMD)
8. **09/20/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63991CHP)
9. **SB639** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639)
10. **09/16/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB639&version=20130SB63992ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- SB 639 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By ATKINS — **52–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–3** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **28–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–5** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Supp 2 SB639 Hernandez Concurrence — **26–12** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hernandez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-05** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2013-04-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 617.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-19** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2013-04-29** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-04-30** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2013-05-06** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-05-17** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1018.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1167.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-30** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-21** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-08-30** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-06** Read third time and amended. (Page 2956.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-09-09** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2013-09-09** Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 3032.)
- **2013-09-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (September 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 3275.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-09-12** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2013-09-12** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 2412.) Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-09-12** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 2453.) `committee-passage`
- **2013-09-12** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 2438.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2013-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 316, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ca8d8ef-37f2-46a6-8a51-1e1c0ea44546`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).