California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 1053 — Health care coverage: contraceptives.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 576, Statutes of 2014.

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

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2014. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 80% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 10 sponsors

    1 primary, 9 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various reforms to the health insurance market. Among other things, PPACA requires a nongrandfathered group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual insurance coverage to provide coverage, without imposing cost-sharing requirements, for certain preventive services, including those preventive care and screenings for women provided in specified guidelines. PPACA requires those plans and issuers to provide coverage without cost sharing for all federal Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity, as prescribed by a provider, except as specified. 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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that provides coverage for outpatient prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for a variety of federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved prescription contraceptive methods designated by the plan or insurer, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a religious employer, as defined, to request a contract or policy without coverage of FDA-approved contraceptive methods that are contrary to the employer's religious tenets and, if so requested, requires a contract or policy to be provided without that coverage. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014, to cover essential health benefits, which are defined to include the health benefits covered by particular benchmark plans. 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 specified health care services, including family planning services, subject to certain utilization controls. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans. This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to provide coverage for women for all prescribed and FDA-approved female contraceptive drugs, devices, and products, as well as voluntary sterilization procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related followup services. The bill would prohibit a nongrandfathered plan contract or health insurance policy from imposing any cost-sharing requirements or other restrictions or delays with respect to this coverage, as specified. The bill would include Medi-Cal managed plans, as specified, in the definition of a health care service plan for purposes of these provisions. The bill would retain the provision authorizing a religious employer to request a contract or policy without coverage of FDA-approved contraceptive methods that are contrary to the employer's religious tenets. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require utilization controls for family planning services for Medi-Cal managed care plans to be subject to the cost-sharing requirements described above. 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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 576, Statutes of 2014.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 9. Page 4719.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 22. Page 6238.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  9. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 14).

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

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

  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 6.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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

  14. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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

  16. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 3695.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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

  18. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3707.) (May 23).

  19. Set for hearing May 23.

  20. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  21. Set for hearing May 12.

  22. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 3343.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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

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

  25. Set for hearing April 30.

  26. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

  27. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.

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

Sponsors

  • Ammiano · Cosponsor
  • Mitchell · Primary
  • Garcia · Cosponsor
  • DeSaulnier · Cosponsor
  • Evans · Cosponsor
  • Mullin · Cosponsor
  • Skinner · Cosponsor
  • Ting · Cosponsor
  • Wieckowski · Cosponsor
  • Wolk · Cosponsor

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 9 co-sponsors · 112 not signed on · 5 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Mitchell

Co-sponsors (9)

  • Ammiano
  • Garcia
  • DeSaulnier
  • Evans
  • Mullin
  • Skinner
  • Ting
  • Wieckowski
  • Wolk

Not signed on (112)

112 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB1053 Mitchell Concurrence

Passed 25 Yea · 9 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 23905
Democratic 2001
Total 25906
% of votes cast 63%23%0%15%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Beall — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Torres — Yea
Correa — Yea
Evans — Yea
Wright — Not Voting
Fuller — Not Voting
Wyland — Nay
Galgiani — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Cannella — Not Voting
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
Block — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Huff — Nay
Knight — Nay
Leno — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Nay
Walters — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Yee — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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SB 1053 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By ATKINS

Passed 54 Yea · 22 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 502002
Democratic 4000
Republican 0201
Total 542203
% of votes cast 68%28%0%4%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Not Voting
Alejo — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Bloom — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Levine — Yea
Linder — Nay
Maienschein — Nay
Nazarian — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Waldron — Nay
Wilk — Nay
Lowenthal — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Fong — Yea
Campos — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hagman — Nay
Hall — Yea
Holden — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Logue — Nay
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Mansoor — Nay
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Nay
Ammiano — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Daly — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Olsen — Nay
Pan — Yea
Perea — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Ting — Yea
Weber — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Allen — Not Voting
Chávez — Nay
Conway — Nay
Donnelly — Nay
Nestande — Nay
Fox — Nay
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gorell — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Jim Patterson — Nay
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Not Voting
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

Passed 12 Yea · 5 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 11400
Democratic 1000
Republican 0100
Total 12500
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Bocanegra — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Campos — Yea
Holden — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Donnelly — Nay
Eggman — Yea
Linder — Nay
Pan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Weber — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

Official roll call →

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

Passed 12 Yea · 6 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 11601
Democratic 1000
Total 12601
% of votes cast 63%32%0%5%
How each member voted (19)
Member Party Vote
Ammiano — Not Voting
Maienschein — Nay
Mansoor — Nay
Nazarian — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Waldron — Nay
Chesbro — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Pan — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Gomez — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea

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3rd Reading

Passed 25 Yea · 11 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 231103
Democratic 2001
Total 251104
% of votes cast 63%28%0%10%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Block — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Leno — Yea
Monning — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Nay
Wyland — Nay
Cannella — Nay
Hancock — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Knight — Nay
Corbett — Yea
Beall — Yea
Correa — Yea
Lara — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Liu — Yea
Morrell — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Torres — Yea
Vidak — Nay
Wolk — Yea
Wright — Not Voting
Fuller — Not Voting
Huff — Nay
Evans — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Yee — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

Passed 5 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 1000
Unaffiliated 4200
Total 5200
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Nay
De León — Yea
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

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

Passed 6 Yea · 1 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6102
Total 6102
% of votes cast 67%11%0%22%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Beall — Not Voting
Monning — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Evans — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Morrell — Nay
Nielsen — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
De León — Yea

Official roll call →

Subjects

healthcare health-insurance
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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 1053 do?
Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various reforms to the health insurance market. Among other things, PPACA requires a nongrandfathered group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual insurance coverage to provide coverage, without imposing cost-sharing requirements, for certain preventive services, including those preventive care and screenings for women provided in specified guidelines. PPACA requires those plans and issuers to provide coverage without cost sharing for all federal Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity, as prescribed by a provider, except as specified. 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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that provides coverage for outpatient prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for a variety of federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved prescription contraceptive methods designated by the plan or insurer, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a religious employer, as defined, to request a contract or policy without coverage of FDA-approved contraceptive methods that are contrary to the employer's religious tenets and, if so requested, requires a contract or policy to be provided without that coverage. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2014, to cover essential health benefits, which are defined to include the health benefits covered by particular benchmark plans. 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 specified health care services, including family planning services, subject to certain utilization controls. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans. This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2016, to provide coverage for women for all prescribed and FDA-approved female contraceptive drugs, devices, and products, as well as voluntary sterilization procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related followup services. The bill would prohibit a nongrandfathered plan contract or health insurance policy from imposing any cost-sharing requirements or other restrictions or delays with respect to this coverage, as specified. The bill would include Medi-Cal managed plans, as specified, in the definition of a health care service plan for purposes of these provisions. The bill would retain the provision authorizing a religious employer to request a contract or policy without coverage of FDA-approved contraceptive methods that are contrary to the employer's religious tenets. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require utilization controls for family planning services for Medi-Cal managed care plans to be subject to the cost-sharing requirements described above. 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 1053?
SB 1053 is sponsored by Ammiano, Mitchell, Garcia, DeSaulnier, Evans, Mullin, Skinner, Ting, Wieckowski, and Wolk.
What is the current status of SB 1053?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2014. Enacted.
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