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type: "Bill"
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title: "Telehealth: dental care."
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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. Existing law requires contract between a health care service plan or health insurer and a health care provider to require the plan or insurer to reimburse the provider for the diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of an enrollee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder appropriately delivered through telehealth services on the same basis and to the same extent as the same service through in-person diagnosis, consultation, or treatment. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer that offers a service via telehealth to meet specified conditions, including, that the health care service plan or health insurer disclose to the enrollee or insured the availability of receiving the service on an in-person basis or via telehealth."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 1982"
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citation: "California AB 1982 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Telehealth: dental care."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 30
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2022-02-10"
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last_action: "2022-09-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6320be99-1c5a-4d3b-9d55-ad4e9d681de3"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982"
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source_hash: "10d4ef13519a7832423965ed89237e4d83312f865fa8263aa6798f602594f652"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1982 (20212022) — Telehealth: dental care.
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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. Existing law requires contract between a health care service plan or health insurer and a health care provider to require the plan or insurer to reimburse the provider for the diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of an enrollee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder appropriately delivered through telehealth services on the same basis and to the same extent as the same service through in-person diagnosis, consultation, or treatment. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer that offers a service via telehealth to meet specified conditions, including, that the health care service plan or health insurer disclose to the enrollee or insured the availability of receiving the service on an in-person basis or via telehealth.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/10/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982&version=20210AB198299INT)
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2. **04/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982&version=20210AB198298AMD)
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3. **06/16/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982&version=20210AB198297AMD)
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4. **08/01/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982&version=20210AB198296AMD)
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5. **08/23/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982&version=20210AB198295AMD)
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6. **09/25/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982&version=20210AB198293CHP)
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7. **AB1982** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982)
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8. **09/02/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1982&version=20210AB198294ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1982 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Special Consent AB1982 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1982 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Santiago — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2022-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
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- **2022-02-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2022-03-29** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2022-04-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-19** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-19** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
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- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5009.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-16** 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2022-08-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2022-08-08** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-08-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2022-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5367.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2022-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2022-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 525, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6320be99-1c5a-4d3b-9d55-ad4e9d681de3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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