CA AB 536
in committeeHealth care coverage: colorectal cancer screening.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 536 pass?
Not yet. CA AB 536 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 536 about?
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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally requires a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, to provide coverage without cost sharing for a colorectal cancer screening test assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force and for a required colonoscopy for a positive result on a test with those grades. This bill would additionally require that coverage if the screening test is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and either meets requirements for coverage established by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as specified, or is included in the most recently published guidelines from the American Cancer Society.
Who sponsors CA AB 536?
Patterson is the primary sponsor of CA AB 536.
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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally requires a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, to provide coverage without cost sharing for a colorectal cancer screening test assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force and for a required colonoscopy for a positive result on a test with those grades. This bill would additionally require that coverage if the screening test is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and either meets requirements for coverage established by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as specified, or is included in the most recently published guidelines from the American Cancer Society.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-24
- Latest action
- 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Pattersonauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-11
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-12
From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
2025-03-24
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-03-24
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-25
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-04-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
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2025-04-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1425.)
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2025-05-06
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-14
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-06-11
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-14
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-08 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Krell: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Patel: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Flora: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bonta: yes
Do pass.
2025-04-23 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
AB 536 Patterson Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-05 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Rivas: yes
- Haney: yes
- Papan: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Fong: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Krell: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Addis: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Solache: yes
- Rogers: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ward: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Berman: yes
- Flora: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Garcia: other
- Bains: other
- Lee: other
- Ellis: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-06-25 · pass · 8-1
Member-level votes (11)
- Grove: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Limón: yes
- Weber Pierson: no
- Menjivar: other
- Durazo: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
Related bills
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