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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: timely access to care."
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 a health care service plan or health insurer that provides or arranges for the provision of hospital or physician services to comply with specified timely access to care requirements, including ensuring that its network has adequate capacity and availability of licensed health care providers to offer enrollees and insureds appointments that meet specified timeframes. Existing law authorizes the department director to take enforcement action against health care plans that fail to comply with these provisions, including assessing administrative penalties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 225"
citation: "California SB 225 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: timely access to care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1264702-98ff-4da3-94c3-38834bb72bbe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225"
source_hash: "e2692e0612c74616dd3fd7c16a9d02b7038ecec39dc5cfcacb2a3ba23a4e38b9"
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 225 (20212022) — Health care coverage: timely access to care.
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 a health care service plan or health insurer that provides or arranges for the provision of hospital or physician services to comply with specified timely access to care requirements, including ensuring that its network has adequate capacity and availability of licensed health care providers to offer enrollees and insureds appointments that meet specified timeframes. Existing law authorizes the department director to take enforcement action against health care plans that fail to comply with these provisions, including assessing administrative penalties.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/14/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22599INT)
2. **01/03/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22597AMD)
3. **03/02/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22598AMD)
4. **06/16/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22596AMD)
5. **06/30/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22595AMD)
6. **08/18/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22594AMD)
7. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22592CHP)
8. **SB225** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225)
9. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB225&version=20210SB22593ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 225 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Arambula — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB225 Wiener Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Wiener — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 14.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Set for hearing April 5.
- **2021-04-05** April 5 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2021-12-28** Set for hearing January 10.
- **2022-01-03** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 2738.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-01-10** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-01-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 2776.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-01-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-03** August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6179.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-24** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-25** Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-25** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5112.) Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-29** Set for hearing August 29.
- **2022-08-29** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 5248.) `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5311.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 601, 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/d1264702-98ff-4da3-94c3-38834bb72bbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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