California 2013-2014, 1st Special Session Status: Enacted

SB 3 — Health care coverage: bridge plan.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 5, Statutes of 2013-14 First Extraordinary Session.

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  1. ✓
    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 05, 2013. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 7 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires each state to, by January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that makes available qualified health plans to qualified individuals and small employers. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. 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. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Under existing law, carriers that sell any products outside the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) are required to fairly and affirmatively offer, market, and sell all products made available to individuals or small employers in the Exchange to individuals or small employers, respectively, purchasing coverage outside the Exchange. Existing law also requires carriers that participate in the Exchange to fairly and affirmatively offer, market, and sell in the Exchange at least one product within 5 levels of specified coverage. This bill would exempt a bridge plan product, as defined, from that latter requirement. This bill would, among other things, also require the Exchange to enter into contracts with and certify as a qualified health plan bridge plan products that meet specified requirements, including being a Medi-Cal managed care plan. The bill would also require the Exchange to make available bridge plan products to eligible individuals. The bill would authorize the Exchange, after consulting with stakeholders, to adopt regulations to implement those provisions, and until January 1, 2016, exempt the adoption, amendment, or repeal of those regulations from the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would require the Exchange to annually prepare a specified written report on the implementation and performance of the Exchange functions during the preceding fiscal year, and to prepare, or contract for the preparation of, an evaluation of the bridge plan program using the first 3 years of experience with the program, as specified. The bill would authorize a health care service plan or insurance carrier offering a bridge plan product in the Exchange to limit the products it offers in the Exchange to the bridge plan product, except as required by federal law. The bill would define "bridge plan product" as an individual health benefit plan offered by a licensed health care service plan or health insurer that contracts with the Exchange, as specified. The bill would also require the State Department of Health Care Services to impose specified requirements in its contracts with a health care service plan or health insurer to provide Medi-Cal managed care coverage but would authorize the department to contract with the Exchange to delegate the implementation of those provisions. The bill would require the Exchange to seek federal approval to allow specified individuals the option to enroll in a different bridge plan product if the individual's primary care provider is included in the contracted network of the different bridge plan product and either the bridge plan product for which the individual is eligible is not offered in that individual's service area or is not offered as a bridge plan product by the Exchange. The bill would provide that its provisions would become inoperative on the October 1 that is 5 years after the date that federal approval of the bridge plan option occurs.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 5, Statutes of 2013-14 First Extraordinary Session.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

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

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 86.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 161.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 24).

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

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

  11. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 11).

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

  13. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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

  15. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 48.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  16. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  17. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 42.) (April 8).

  18. Set for hearing April 8.

  19. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 36.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  20. Set for hearing March 20.

  21. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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

  23. Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS.

Sponsors

  • Hernandez · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Hernandez

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB3 Hernandez Concurrence

Passed 36 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 34001
Democratic 2001
Total 36002
% of votes cast 95%0%0%5%
How each member voted (38)
Member Party Vote
Emmerson — Yea
Evans — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Liu — Yea
Wyland — Yea
De León — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Correa — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Huff — Yea
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Knight — Yea
Leno — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Roth — Yea
Torres — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Yee — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Lara — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wright — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Not Voting

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SB 3 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By PAN

Passed 77 Yea · 1 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 67100
Democratic 7000
Republican 3001
Total 77101
% of votes cast 97%1%0%1%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Eggman — Yea
Daly — Yea
Fox — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Stone — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Campos — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gray — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Hall — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Chau — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Donnelly — Nay
Levine — Yea
Linder — Yea
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Pan — Yea
Perea — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Williams — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Achadjian — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Holden — Yea
Logue — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Mansoor — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Weber — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Garcia, Robert Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Patterson, Joe Republican Not Voting

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Do pass.

Passed 12 Yea · 1 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 11104
Democratic 1000
Total 12104
% of votes cast 71%6%0%24%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Eggman — Yea
Campos — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Hall — Yea
Bocanegra — Not Voting
Harkey — Not Voting
Bigelow — Not Voting
Donnelly — Nay
Linder — Yea
Pan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Weber — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Holden — Not Voting
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

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

Passed 18 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 17001
Democratic 1000
Total 18001
% of votes cast 95%0%0%5%
How each member voted (19)
Member Party Vote
Nazarian — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Pan — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Logue — Not Voting
Maienschein — Yea
Mansoor — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea

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3rd Reading

Passed 37 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 34001
Democratic 3000
Total 37001
% of votes cast 97%0%0%3%
How each member voted (38)
Member Party Vote
Cannella — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Evans — Not Voting
Correa — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Beall — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huff — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Yea
De León — Yea
Liu — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Price — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Knight — Yea
Monning — Yea
Roth — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Yee — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Wyland — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Block — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wright — 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.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
De León — Yea
Lara — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Yea
Hill — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 3 do?
Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires each state to, by January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange that makes available qualified health plans to qualified individuals and small employers. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits. 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. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Under existing law, carriers that sell any products outside the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange) are required to fairly and affirmatively offer, market, and sell all products made available to individuals or small employers in the Exchange to individuals or small employers, respectively, purchasing coverage outside the Exchange. Existing law also requires carriers that participate in the Exchange to fairly and affirmatively offer, market, and sell in the Exchange at least one product within 5 levels of specified coverage. This bill would exempt a bridge plan product, as defined, from that latter requirement. This bill would, among other things, also require the Exchange to enter into contracts with and certify as a qualified health plan bridge plan products that meet specified requirements, including being a Medi-Cal managed care plan. The bill would also require the Exchange to make available bridge plan products to eligible individuals. The bill would authorize the Exchange, after consulting with stakeholders, to adopt regulations to implement those provisions, and until January 1, 2016, exempt the adoption, amendment, or repeal of those regulations from the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would require the Exchange to annually prepare a specified written report on the implementation and performance of the Exchange functions during the preceding fiscal year, and to prepare, or contract for the preparation of, an evaluation of the bridge plan program using the first 3 years of experience with the program, as specified. The bill would authorize a health care service plan or insurance carrier offering a bridge plan product in the Exchange to limit the products it offers in the Exchange to the bridge plan product, except as required by federal law. The bill would define "bridge plan product" as an individual health benefit plan offered by a licensed health care service plan or health insurer that contracts with the Exchange, as specified. The bill would also require the State Department of Health Care Services to impose specified requirements in its contracts with a health care service plan or health insurer to provide Medi-Cal managed care coverage but would authorize the department to contract with the Exchange to delegate the implementation of those provisions. The bill would require the Exchange to seek federal approval to allow specified individuals the option to enroll in a different bridge plan product if the individual's primary care provider is included in the contracted network of the different bridge plan product and either the bridge plan product for which the individual is eligible is not offered in that individual's service area or is not offered as a bridge plan product by the Exchange. The bill would provide that its provisions would become inoperative on the October 1 that is 5 years after the date that federal approval of the bridge plan option occurs.
Who sponsors SB 3?
SB 3 is sponsored by Hernandez.
What is the current status of SB 3?
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