Ted Lieu
- Democratic
Author
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan and a health insurance policy to provide group coverage to the registered domestic partner of an employee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder that is equal to the coverage it provides to the spouse of those persons. This bill would specify that a plan or policy may not discriminate in coverage between spouses or domestic partners of a different sex and spouses or domestic partners of the same sex. Existing law provides that a policy or certificate of health insurance marketed, issued, or delivered to a California resident, regardless of the situs of the contract or master group policyholder, is generally subject to California insurance law, except for a policy issued outside of California to an employer whose principal place of business and majority of employees are located outside of California. This bill would provide that every group health care service plan contract and every group health insurance policy that is marketed, issued, or delivered to a California resident is subject to the requirements to provide equal coverage to domestic partners as is provided to spouses, notwithstanding any other provision of law. The bill would also provide that notwithstanding the exception for a policy issued outside of California to an employer whose principal place of business and majority of employees are located outside of California, no policy or certificate of health insurance marketed, issued, or delivered to a resident of this state shall discriminate in coverage between spouses or domestic partners of a different sex and spouses or domestic partners of the same sex. Because a willful violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 722, Statutes of 2011.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 2273.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 2790.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 17).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 28).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 1179.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 1014.) (May 16).
Set for hearing May 16.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 861.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing May 3.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 786.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 27.
Hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing April 13.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB757 | HTML |
| 02/18/11 - Introduced | |
| 03/23/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/28/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/13/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/05/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/15/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/22/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/06/11 - Enrolled | |
| 10/09/11 - Chaptered |
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