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Health care language assistance services.

It became law on Oct 13, 2017.

CA SB 223 · Senate Bill · 2017–2018

Stage
Became law
Started in
Senate
Sponsor
Atkins
Latest action
Oct 13, 2017

What it does

(1) 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 the Department of Managed Health Care and the Department of Insurance to adopt regulations establishing standards and requirements for health care service plans and health insurers to provide enrollees and insureds with appropriate access to language assistance in obtaining health care services, including requirements for individual access to…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Oct 13, 2017

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Who is involved

Sponsors

The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.

  • AtkinsLead sponsor

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Where it goes next

It is law in California. What happens now is up to the agency that carries it out, the courts, and the place itself.

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