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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care service plans: discipline: civil penalties."
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. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care to take disciplinary measures, including the imposition of civil penalties, against a licensee when the director determines that the licensee has committed an act or omission constituting grounds for disciplinary action, as specified. Under existing law, a person who violates the act, or a rule or order adopted or issued under the act, is generally liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per violation. Existing law also includes various provisions that assess specific civil and administrative penalties for certain violations. Fines and penalties under the act are deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund, and used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for designated purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 858"
citation: "California SB 858 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care service plans: discipline: civil penalties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4422d153-cc08-47bb-b2dd-bacf885429ca"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858"
source_hash: "1d1b0b7b0f0b7c0fff986bcf7d1d09bf48ff3dafd3e629a451afc8d29fd34b17"
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 858 (20212022) — Health care service plans: discipline: civil penalties.
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. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care to take disciplinary measures, including the imposition of civil penalties, against a licensee when the director determines that the licensee has committed an act or omission constituting grounds for disciplinary action, as specified. Under existing law, a person who violates the act, or a rule or order adopted or issued under the act, is generally liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per violation. Existing law also includes various provisions that assess specific civil and administrative penalties for certain violations. Fines and penalties under the act are deposited into the Managed Care Administrative Fines and Penalties Fund, and used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for designated purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/19/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85899INT)
2. **04/28/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85898AMD)
3. **05/19/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85897AMD)
4. **06/13/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85896AMD)
5. **06/30/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85895AMD)
6. **08/18/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85894AMD)
7. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85892CHP)
8. **SB858** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858)
9. **08/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB858&version=20210SB85893ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **124** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **113** (pass) · lower
- SB 858 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Aguiar-Curry Amendment Set #1**5318** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **81** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **81** (pass) · upper
- SB 858 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Aguiar-Curry — **5118** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **279** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB858 Wiener Concurrence — **319** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Wiener — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 19.
- **2022-01-26** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
- **2022-03-29** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2022-04-05** Set for hearing April 26 in JUD. pending receipt.
- **2022-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 3461.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 3512.) (April 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2022-05-16** May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-17** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3772.) (May 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 3879.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** 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 11. Noes 3.) (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 12. Noes 4.) (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. (Ayes 53. Noes 18. Page 5932.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 18. Page 6024.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5135.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 985, 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/4422d153-cc08-47bb-b2dd-bacf885429ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).