CA AB 1048
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California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 1048 pass?
No. CA AB 1048 was withdrawn and is no longer under consideration. Latest recorded action (2026-08-13): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 1048 about?
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires an employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury. Existing law requires every contracting agent, that sells, leases, assigns, transfers, or conveys its list of contract health care providers and their contracted reimbursement rates to a payor, to comply with certain requirements. Existing law also requires a payor to, among other things, provide an explanation of benefits or explanation of review that identifies the name of the network that the payor has an agreement with that entitles them to pay a preferred rate for the services rendered. This bill would require the explanation of review or explanation of benefits to include the state assigned medical provider network identification number and an email address that the rendering medical provider may use to request a copy of the underlying contract that entitles them to take the preferred rate. The bill would state that disclosure of a medical provider network does not satisfy this requirement. The bill would require the payor, upon request, to provide the rendering provider or their agent with a copy of the underlying contract once per 365-day period. Existing law requires each employer to establish a utilization review process to review and approve, modify, or deny treatment recommendations and establishes an independent medical review process to resolve disputes over a utilization review decision. Existing law requires various requirements to be met in determining whether to approve, modify, or deny requests by a physician for medical services. This bill would require a request for authorization of medical services by a physician to be signed by that physician, and would authorize a request to be sent via mail, fax, or electronic methods, as specified. The bill would make other conforming changes.
Who sponsors CA AB 1048?
Chen is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1048.
Description
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires an employer to provide medical, surgical, chiropractic, acupuncture, and hospital treatment that is reasonably required to cure or relieve the injured worker from the effects of the injury. Existing law requires every contracting agent, that sells, leases, assigns, transfers, or conveys its list of contract health care providers and their contracted reimbursement rates to a payor, to comply with certain requirements. Existing law also requires a payor to, among other things, provide an explanation of benefits or explanation of review that identifies the name of the network that the payor has an agreement with that entitles them to pay a preferred rate for the services rendered. This bill would require the explanation of review or explanation of benefits to include the state assigned medical provider network identification number and an email address that the rendering medical provider may use to request a copy of the underlying contract that entitles them to take the preferred rate. The bill would state that disclosure of a medical provider network does not satisfy this requirement. The bill would require the payor, upon request, to provide the rendering provider or their agent with a copy of the underlying contract once per 365-day period. Existing law requires each employer to establish a utilization review process to review and approve, modify, or deny treatment recommendations and establishes an independent medical review process to resolve disputes over a utilization review decision. Existing law requires various requirements to be met in determining whether to approve, modify, or deny requests by a physician for medical services. This bill would require a request for authorization of medical services by a physician to be signed by that physician, and would authorize a request to be sent via mail, fax, or electronic methods, as specified. The bill would make other conforming changes.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-24
- Latest action
- 2026-08-13 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Chenauthor
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-08-13
In committee: Held under submission.
2026-06-29
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2026-06-15
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-11
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2026-05-27
Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
referral-committee
2026-01-22
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-09-08
(Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2570.)
2025-09-08
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-09-08
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-08
Withdrawn from committee.
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2025-09-08
Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b).
referral-committee
2025-09-08
Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b).
referral-committee
2025-09-05
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-08-20
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-08-19
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-06-18
Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
referral-committee
2025-06-05
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2057.)
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-21
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.)
2025-05-21
In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-14
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-21
Re-referred to Com. on INS.
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2025-04-10
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-25
Re-referred to Com. on INS.
referral-committee
2025-03-24
Referred to Com. on INS.
referral-committee
2025-03-24
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Versions
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- 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-24Compare
- 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-10Compare
- 09/05/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-09-05Compare
- 01/22/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-01-22Compare
- 06/15/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-15Compare
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-23 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Chen: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Krell: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Addis: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 1048 Chen Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-04 · pass · 76-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Lackey: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Chen: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ward: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Berman: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Haney: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Fong: yes
- Davies: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Flora: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hart: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patel: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Macedo: other
- Lee: other
- Ta: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-09 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-10 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
Placed on suspense file
2026-06-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cervantes: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
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