California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate

SB 22 — Health care coverage: mental health parity.

Last action — From Assembly without further action.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2013-2014 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Summary

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 health care service plan contracts or health insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2000, to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses, as defined, and of serious emotional disturbances of a child, as specified, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions. Existing federal law, the federal Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to ensure that financial requirements and treatment limitations applicable to mental health or substance use disorder benefits are no more restrictive than the predominant requirements or limitations applied to substantially all medical and surgical benefits. Existing state law requires individual and small group health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014, to comply with MHPAEA. This bill would, on or after October 1, 2014, require every health care service plan that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage, every specialized mental health care service plan that contracts with a health care service plan to provide mental health services, and every health insurer to submit an annual report to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate, certifying compliance with specified state laws and the MHPAEA, except as provided. The bill would require the departments to collaborate with each other and consult with experts and stakeholders to create the standards for the form and content of those reports on or before July 1, 2014. The bill would require those departments to report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2020, on the information obtained through those annual reports. The bill would require the reports to be a public record made available upon request and to be published on the respective departments' Internet Web sites. The bill would require those plans and insurers to conduct surveys of enrollees, insureds, and providers as part of the report, as specified. The bill would prohibit the inclusion of any information that may individually identify enrollees or insureds in the reports submitted to the respective departments pursuant to the provisions described above. Because a willful violation of the bill's 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.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. From Assembly without further action.

  2. From committee without further action.

  3. Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.

  4. Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  5. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  6. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 2.) (June 25).

  7. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

  8. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

  9. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  10. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1170.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  11. Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

  12. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1005.) (May 23).

  13. Set for hearing May 23.

  14. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  15. Set for hearing April 29.

  16. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  17. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  18. Withdrawn from committee.

  19. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 506.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  20. Set for hearing April 10.

  21. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

  22. Hearing postponed by committee.

  23. Set for hearing April 3.

  24. Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.

  25. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  26. Referred to Com. on RLS.

  27. From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.

  28. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Ammiano · Cosponsor
  • Beall · Primary
  • De León · Cosponsor
  • Chesbro · Cosponsor
  • Correa · Cosponsor
  • DeSaulnier · Cosponsor
  • Yee · Cosponsor

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 115 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Beall

Co-sponsors (6)

  • Ammiano
  • De León
  • Chesbro
  • Correa
  • DeSaulnier
  • Yee

Not signed on (115)

115 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Passed 17 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 16200
Democratic 1000
Total 17200
% of votes cast 89%11%0%0%
How each member voted (19)
Member Party Vote
Ammiano — Yea
Logue — Nay
Maienschein — Yea
Mansoor — Nay
Wagner — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Pan — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea

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3rd Reading

Passed 38 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 35001
Democratic 3000
Total 38001
% of votes cast 97%0%0%3%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Beall — Yea
Huff — Yea
Lara — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Roth — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Torres — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wyland — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Correa — Yea
Wright — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Evans — Yea
De León — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Block — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Knight — Yea
Leno — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Price — Yea
Wolk — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Not Voting
Yee — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

Passed 5 Yea · 1 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4101
Democratic 1000
Total 5101
% of votes cast 71%14%0%14%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Hill — Yea
De León — Yea
Lara — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Nay
Beth Gaines — Not Voting
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary.

Passed 9 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 9000
Total 9000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Beall — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
De León — Yea
Monning — Yea
Pavley — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea

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Subjects

healthcare health-insurance
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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 22 do?
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 health care service plan contracts or health insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2000, to provide coverage for the diagnosis and medically necessary treatment of severe mental illnesses, as defined, and of serious emotional disturbances of a child, as specified, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions. Existing federal law, the federal Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to ensure that financial requirements and treatment limitations applicable to mental health or substance use disorder benefits are no more restrictive than the predominant requirements or limitations applied to substantially all medical and surgical benefits. Existing state law requires individual and small group health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014, to comply with MHPAEA. This bill would, on or after October 1, 2014, require every health care service plan that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage, every specialized mental health care service plan that contracts with a health care service plan to provide mental health services, and every health insurer to submit an annual report to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate, certifying compliance with specified state laws and the MHPAEA, except as provided. The bill would require the departments to collaborate with each other and consult with experts and stakeholders to create the standards for the form and content of those reports on or before July 1, 2014. The bill would require those departments to report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2020, on the information obtained through those annual reports. The bill would require the reports to be a public record made available upon request and to be published on the respective departments' Internet Web sites. The bill would require those plans and insurers to conduct surveys of enrollees, insureds, and providers as part of the report, as specified. The bill would prohibit the inclusion of any information that may individually identify enrollees or insureds in the reports submitted to the respective departments pursuant to the provisions described above. Because a willful violation of the bill's 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 SB 22?
SB 22 is sponsored by Ammiano, Beall, De León, Chesbro, Correa, DeSaulnier, and Yee.
What is the current status of SB 22?
This bill died with 2013-2014 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 22?
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