CA SB 32

in committee

Health care coverage: timely access to care.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 32 pass?

Not yet. CA SB 32 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

What is CA SB 32 about?

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law authorizes the provision of Medi-Cal benefits by a contracted managed care plan and requires that benefits provided by a managed care plan are subject to specified time and distance standards. 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 a health care service plan or health insurer that provides or arranges for the provision of hospital or physician services to comply with specified timely access to care requirements, including ensuring that its network has adequate capacity and availability of licensed health care providers to offer enrollees and insureds appointments that meet specified timeframes. Existing law authorizes the department director to take enforcement action against health care plans that fail to comply with these provisions, including assessing administrative penalties. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, the Department of Managed Health Care, the Department of Insurance, and the State Department of Health Care Services to consult together and with stakeholders develop and adopt standards for the geographic accessibility of perinatal units to ensure timely access for enrollees and insureds, as specified. The bill's provisions would become inoperative on July 1, 2033, and would be repealed on January 1, 2034. Because a violation by a health care service plan of a standard adopted by the Department of Managed Health Care 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 SB 32?

Weber Pierson is the primary sponsor of CA SB 32, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Introduced: 2024-12-02
Latest action: 2025-08-29 — August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Committees

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Action timeline

2024-12-02
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2024-12-03
From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 2.
2024-12-03
(Corrected January 2).
2025-01-29
Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2025-03-25
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-02
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 30.
2025-05-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 965.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-02
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-12
May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1188.) (May 23).
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2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1361.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-03
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2025-06-19
(Corrected June 20).
2025-06-19
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-07-16
July 16 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
2025-08-29
Coauthors revised.

Versions

12/02/24 - Introduced — 2024-12-02Compare
03/25/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-25Compare
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Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-30 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Padilla: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Grove: yes
- Menjivar: other
- Rubio: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading SB32 Weber Pierson
2025-06-02 · pass · 36-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Niello: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Choi: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Menjivar: other
- Hurtado: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-01 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Bonta: yes
- Chen: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Flora: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Patel: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Krell: yes
- Addis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Patterson: other

Related bills

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB32

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