CA AB 787
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California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did CA AB 787 pass?
Not yet. CA AB 787 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 787 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 requires specified health care service plans and health insurers to publish and maintain a provider directory or directories with information on contracting providers that deliver health care services to enrollees or insureds, and requires a health care service plan or health insurer to regularly update its printed and online provider directory or directories, as specified. Existing law requires provider directories to include specified information and disclosures. This bill would require a full service health care service plan, specialized mental health or dental plan, health insurer, or specialized mental health or dental insurer to include in its provider directory or directories a statement advising an enrollee or insured to contact the plan or insurer for assistance finding an in-network provider and for an explanation of their rights regarding out-of-network coverage, and would specify the format of the statement. The bill would require the plan or insurer to acknowledge the request within one business day if contacted for that assistance, and to provide a list of in-network providers confirmed to be accepting new patients within 2 business days for a request deemed urgent by the enrollee or insured and 5 business days for a request deemed nonurgent by an enrollee or insured. Because a 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.
Who sponsors CA AB 787?
Papan is the primary sponsor of CA AB 787.
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 requires specified health care service plans and health insurers to publish and maintain a provider directory or directories with information on contracting providers that deliver health care services to enrollees or insureds, and requires a health care service plan or health insurer to regularly update its printed and online provider directory or directories, as specified. Existing law requires provider directories to include specified information and disclosures. This bill would require a full service health care service plan, specialized mental health or dental plan, health insurer, or specialized mental health or dental insurer to include in its provider directory or directories a statement advising an enrollee or insured to contact the plan or insurer for assistance finding an in-network provider and for an explanation of their rights regarding out-of-network coverage, and would specify the format of the statement. The bill would require the plan or insurer to acknowledge the request within one business day if contacted for that assistance, and to provide a list of in-network providers confirmed to be accepting new patients within 2 business days for a request deemed urgent by the enrollee or insured and 5 business days for a request deemed nonurgent by an enrollee or insured. Because a 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.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-17
- Latest action
- 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Papanauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.
2025-07-07
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-06-23
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-06-19
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2025-05-14
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2025-05-06
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1426.)
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2025-04-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
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2025-04-08
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-07
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-03
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 1).
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2025-03-18
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-03-17
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-17
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-02-19
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2025-02-18
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-01 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Patel: yes
- Chen: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Flora: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: 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 787 Papan Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-05 · pass · 77-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Haney: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Krell: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ta: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Berman: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Soria: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ward: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Flora: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Fong: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hart: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Addis: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Chen: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Ellis: other
- Bains: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-06-18 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Menjivar: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Gonzalez: other
- Grove: other
- Valladares: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-07-07 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: other
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