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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: reproductive health care services."
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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1954"
citation: "California AB 1954 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: reproductive health care services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-02-12"
last_action: "2016-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54c5e197-3b4f-4037-9fee-b9a17635ed65"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954"
source_hash: "6df63b1eb21a613befd6f52a695d5d126af06d51a452fa4dff1e42c850b264b1"
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 1954 (20152016) — Health care coverage: reproductive health care services.
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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/12/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195499INT)
2. **04/13/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195498AMD)
3. **04/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195497AMD)
4. **05/09/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195496AMD)
5. **06/13/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195495AMD)
6. **06/27/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195494AMD)
7. **08/17/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195493AMD)
8. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195491CHP)
9. **AB1954** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954)
10. **08/30/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1954&version=20150AB195492ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **144** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1954 Burke By Mitchell — **2811** (pass) · upper
- AB 1954 BURKE Assembly Third Reading — **5323** (pass) · lower
- AB 1954 BURKE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **5919** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **155** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **72** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Burke — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (April 19). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 5.) (May 4). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-09** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 23. Page 4894.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 22). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 5253.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 19. Page 6341.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 495, Statutes of 2016.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54c5e197-3b4f-4037-9fee-b9a17635ed65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).