CA AB 687
withdrawnHealth care coverage: colorectal cancer screening.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 687 pass?
No. CA AB 687 was withdrawn and is no longer under consideration. Latest recorded action (2026-06-25): In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
What is CA AB 687 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, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. 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. Because a violation of the bill 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.
Who sponsors CA AB 687?
Patterson is the primary sponsor of CA AB 687.
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 a crime. 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. Because a violation of the bill 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.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-08
- Latest action
- 2026-06-25 — In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- Pattersonauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-06-25
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2026-06-22
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2026-06-15
Withdrawn from committee.
withdrawal
2026-06-15
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2026-06-15
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-07-02
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-18
Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.
referral-committee
2025-06-09
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 3. Page 2112.)
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-05-23
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-04-23
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-04-10
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee
2025-04-09
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-08
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (April 7).
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2025-03-03
Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
referral-committee
2025-02-15
From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
2025-02-14
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-07 · pass · 10-2
Member-level votes (14)
- Pellerin: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Zbur: no
- Kalra: no
- Connolly: other
- Muratsuchi: other
Do pass as amended.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Dixon: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 687 Patterson Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-05 · pass · 56-3
Member-level votes (79)
- Castillo: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Chen: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Papan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Davies: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ta: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Berman: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Rogers: no
- Lee: no
- Zbur: no
- Gallagher: other
- Ortega: other
- Gabriel: other
- Kalra: other
- Haney: other
- Fong: other
- Addis: other
- Harabedian: other
- Hart: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Schiavo: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Ramos: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Bennett: other
- Caloza: other
- Connolly: other
- Bonta: other
- Valencia: other
- Jackson: other
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