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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health care coverage: doulas."
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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's requirements 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 to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes. Existing law encourages a plan or insurer to include coverage for doulas."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "AB 904"
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citation: "California AB 904 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Health care coverage", "doulas"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2023-02-14"
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last_action: "2023-10-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/605730ab-437b-47df-8de5-4882e6ee76da"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904"
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source_hash: "53854a6dee9284549dfe3e2b73f157dda95f78731a9b28ad627c1d75ce4061bd"
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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 904 (20232024) — Health care coverage: doulas.
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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's requirements 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 to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes. Existing law encourages a plan or insurer to include coverage for doulas.
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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. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904&version=20230AB90499INT)
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2. **03/29/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904&version=20230AB90498AMD)
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3. **06/26/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904&version=20230AB90497AMD)
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4. **09/07/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904&version=20230AB90496AMD)
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5. **10/07/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904&version=20230AB90494CHP)
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6. **AB904** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904)
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7. **09/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB904&version=20230AB90495ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **11–1** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB904 Calderon et al. By Rubio — **34–2** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 904 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **69–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 904 Calderon Assembly Third Reading — **67–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Calderon — primary (person)
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- Berman — coauthor (person)
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- Cervantes — author (person)
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- Rubio — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
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- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-29** 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`
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- **2023-03-30** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-12** Coauthors revised.
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- **2023-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2023-05-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 1881.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2023-06-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-07-03** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-09-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 2634.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2023-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3336.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2023-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2023-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 349, Statutes of 2023. `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/605730ab-437b-47df-8de5-4882e6ee76da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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