CA SB 439
enactedCalifornia Health Benefit Review Program: extension.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 439 pass?
Yes. CA SB 439 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-03. Latest recorded action (2025-10-03): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 318, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 439 about?
Existing law establishes the Health Care Benefits Fund to support the University of California's implementation of the California Health Benefit Review Program. Under the program, the University of California assesses legislation proposing to repeal or mandate a benefit or service requirement on health care insurance plans or health insurers. Under the program, the University of California provides a written analysis that includes, among other data, financial impacts of legislation on publicly funded state health insurance programs, including the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program. Existing law imposes an annual charge on health care service plans and health insurers for the 2022–23 to 2026–27 fiscal years, inclusive, as specified, to be deposited into the fund. Existing law prohibits the total annual assessment on health care service plans and health insurers from exceeding $2,200,000. Under existing law, the fund and the program become inoperative on July 1, 2027, and are repealed as of January 1, 2028. This bill would extend the operation of the California Health Benefit Review Program and the Health Care Benefits Fund through July 1, 2033, and would authorize the continued assessment of the annual charge on health care service plans and health insurers for that purpose for the 2026–27 to 2032–33 fiscal years, inclusive. The bill would increase the allowable total annual assessment on health care service plans and health insurers to $3,200,000. The bill would remove the Healthy Families Program as an example of the publicly funded state health insurance programs within an analysis of financial impacts of legislation. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2033, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2034. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
Who sponsors CA SB 439?
Weber Pierson is the primary sponsor of CA SB 439.
Description
Existing law establishes the Health Care Benefits Fund to support the University of California's implementation of the California Health Benefit Review Program. Under the program, the University of California assesses legislation proposing to repeal or mandate a benefit or service requirement on health care insurance plans or health insurers. Under the program, the University of California provides a written analysis that includes, among other data, financial impacts of legislation on publicly funded state health insurance programs, including the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program. Existing law imposes an annual charge on health care service plans and health insurers for the 2022–23 to 2026–27 fiscal years, inclusive, as specified, to be deposited into the fund. Existing law prohibits the total annual assessment on health care service plans and health insurers from exceeding $2,200,000. Under existing law, the fund and the program become inoperative on July 1, 2027, and are repealed as of January 1, 2028. This bill would extend the operation of the California Health Benefit Review Program and the Health Care Benefits Fund through July 1, 2033, and would authorize the continued assessment of the annual charge on health care service plans and health insurers for that purpose for the 2026–27 to 2032–33 fiscal years, inclusive. The bill would increase the allowable total annual assessment on health care service plans and health insurers to $3,200,000. The bill would remove the Healthy Families Program as an example of the publicly funded state health insurance programs within an analysis of financial impacts of legislation. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2033, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2034. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-18
- Latest action
- 2025-10-03 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 318, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Weber Piersonauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-18
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-19
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
2025-02-26
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-03-28
Set for hearing April 9.
2025-04-10
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 737.) (April 9).
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2025-04-10
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-17
Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-28
April 28 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 1200.) (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 38. Noes 0. Page 1393.) 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.
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2025-06-17
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-02
July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-03
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 2868.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-09-04
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-09
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-03
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-03
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 318, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-09 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Menjivar: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Limón: yes
- Grove: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Padilla: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-04-28 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: 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 SB439 Weber Pierson
2025-06-02 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Menjivar: yes
- 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
- Ochoa Bogh: 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
- Hurtado: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-06-17 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Patterson: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Patel: yes
- Krell: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Addis: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Flora: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Stefani: other
Do pass.
2025-08-29 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: other
- Tangipa: other
SB 439 Weber Pierson Senate Third Reading By Flora
2025-09-03 · pass · 75-1
Member-level votes (79)
- Hadwick: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Flora: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Berman: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Davies: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ward: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Soria: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Bains: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Patel: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hart: yes
- Papan: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Krell: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Chen: yes
- Fong: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- DeMaio: no
- Ta: other
- Castillo: other
- Tangipa: other
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