Urgent and emergency mental health and substance use disorder treatment.
It was vetoed on Jan 29, 2024.
- Stage
- Vetoed
- Started in
- Assembly
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Jan 29, 2024
What it does
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 a health care service plan or health insurer that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage shall provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions, as specified. Existing law also includes requirements for timely access to care,…
Where it stands
This bill failed and is no longer moving.
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Done)
Floor (Done)
Law (Needs attention)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in California.