republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-80.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public health omnibus."
description: "(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that took effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing state law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange (the Exchange) within state government, known as Covered California, specifies the powers and duties of the board governing the Exchange, and requires the board to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing law prohibits a member of the board from being employed by, a consultant to, a member of the board of directors of, affiliated with, or otherwise a representative of, a carrier or other insurer, an agent or broker, a health care provider, or a health care facility or health clinic while serving on the board or on the staff of the Exchange and from receiving compensation for service on the board, except as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 80"
citation: "California AB 80 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public health omnibus."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2020-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b9ed4c3-49d7-43a0-9b87-542011cac797"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80"
source_hash: "8c5586451b173c888fe224734a98fad61236c97eef37c99e40861134c2295671"
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 80 (20192020) — Public health omnibus.

(1) Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that took effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that facilitates the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing state law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange (the Exchange) within state government, known as Covered California, specifies the powers and duties of the board governing the Exchange, and requires the board to facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing law prohibits a member of the board from being employed by, a consultant to, a member of the board of directors of, affiliated with, or otherwise a representative of, a carrier or other insurer, an agent or broker, a health care provider, or a health care facility or health clinic while serving on the board or on the staff of the Exchange and from receiving compensation for service on the board, except as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80&version=20190AB8099INT)
2. **06/12/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80&version=20190AB8098AMD)
3. **06/14/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80&version=20190AB8097AMD)
4. **06/22/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80&version=20190AB8096AMD)
5. **06/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80&version=20190AB8094CHP)
6. **AB80** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80)
7. **06/26/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB80&version=20190AB8095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **11–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB80 BUDGET — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- AB 80 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **58–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **13–5** (pass) · upper
- AB 80 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **54–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 1032.)
- **2019-04-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1167.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-06-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-06-26** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 3852.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2020-06-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 4954.)
- **2020-06-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 13. Page 4959.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6:30 p.m.
- **2020-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 12, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b9ed4c3-49d7-43a0-9b87-542011cac797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).