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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: health care provider credentials."
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 disability and health insurers by the Department of Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1041"
citation: "California AB 1041 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Healthcarecoverage", "healthcareprovidercredentials"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/977356a0-8c02-43af-9c37-2b6743d7e841"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041"
source_hash: "dcd9b2ca086b09362d1d888a39bdbddf0cdc96eac509987ac0b5b6af25be7df9"
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 1041 (20252026) — Health care coverage: health care provider credentials.
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 disability and health insurers by the Department of Insurance.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104199INT)
2. **04/07/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104198AMD)
3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104197AMD)
4. **06/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104196AMD)
5. **07/07/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104195AMD)
6. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104194AMD)
7. **10/11/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104192CHP)
8. **AB1041** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041)
9. **09/11/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1041&version=20250AB104193ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **100** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **110** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **50** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1041 Bennett et al. By Menjivar — **301** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **120** (pass) · lower
- AB 1041 Bennett Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **672** (pass) · lower
- AB 1041 Bennett Assembly Third Reading — **612** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bennett — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 2. Page 2011.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** 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`
- **2025-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-07** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 1. Page 2587.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 3115.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 630, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/977356a0-8c02-43af-9c37-2b6743d7e841`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).