republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2127.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: dependent adults."
description: "Existing law establishes the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) in the California Department of Aging to provide Medicare beneficiaries and those imminently eligible for Medicare with counseling and advocacy regarding health care coverage options. 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 an individual health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, that provides dependent coverage to make dependent coverage available to a qualified dependent parent or stepparent. Existing law requires a plan, an insurer, or the California Health Benefit Exchange to provide an applicant seeking to add a dependent parent or stepparent with written notice about HICAP at the time of solicitation and on the application."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2127"
citation: "California AB 2127 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: dependent adults."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd1aff61-d163-427c-bbb6-2e00806b9a3f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2127"
source_hash: "5811eb0a7337093d435bf7c05637eadd18a0d0c7a40b32586c577a5a33a41a89"
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 2127 (20212022) — Health care coverage: dependent adults.

Existing law establishes the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) in the California Department of Aging to provide Medicare beneficiaries and those imminently eligible for Medicare with counseling and advocacy regarding health care coverage options. 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 an individual health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, that provides dependent coverage to make dependent coverage available to a qualified dependent parent or stepparent. Existing law requires a plan, an insurer, or the California Health Benefit Exchange to provide an applicant seeking to add a dependent parent or stepparent with written notice about HICAP at the time of solicitation and on the application.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2127&version=20210AB212799INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2127&version=20210AB212798AMD)
3. **07/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2127&version=20210AB212796CHP)
4. **AB2127** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2127)
5. **06/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2127&version=20210AB212797ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2127 Santiago Consent Calendar Second Day — **61–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2127 — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Santiago — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-15** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2022-03-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 4579.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-20** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4436.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-07-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 118, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd1aff61-d163-427c-bbb6-2e00806b9a3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).