CSR Legislative Report: Sept. 5, 2025
Support
AB 53
(Ramos D) Personal income taxes: exclusion: Military Services Retirement and Surviving Spouse
Benefit Payment Act.
Current Text: Amended: 2/24/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 12/2/2024
Last Amend: 2/24/2025
Status: 6/11/2025-Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and M. & V.A.
Location: 6/11/2025-S. REV. & TAX
Summary: The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax law, generally
defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded,
including an exclusion for combat-related special compensation. This bill, for taxable years beginning on
or after Jan. 1, 2025, and before Jan. 1, 2030, would exclude from gross income retirement pay
received by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, during the taxable year, not to exceed $20,000, from the
federal government for service performed in the uniformed services, as defined. The bill, for taxable
years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2025, and before Jan. 1, 2030, would also exclude from
gross income annuity payments received during the taxable year, not to exceed $20,000, by a qualified
taxpayer, as defined, pursuant to a United States Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan. The bill
would make related findings and declarations. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
AB 280
(Aguiar-Curry D) Health care coverage: provider directories.
Current Text: Introduced: 1/21/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/21/2025
Last Amend: 7/15/2025 Status: 8/29/2025-From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Location: 8/29/2025-S. THIRD READING
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 a health care service plan and a health insurer that
contracts with providers for alternative rates of payment to publish and maintain a provider directory or
directories with information on contracting providers that deliver health care services enrollees or
insureds, and requires a health care service plan and health insurer to regularly update its printed and
online provider directory or directories, as specified. Existing law authorizes the departments to require
a plan or insurer to provide coverage for all covered health care services provided to an enrollee or
insured who reasonably relied on materially inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information contained
in a plan’s or insurer’s provider directory or directories. This bill would require a plan or insurer to
annually verify and delete inaccurate listings from its provider directories, and would require a provider
directory to be 60% accurate on July 1, 2026, with increasing required percentage accuracy benchmarks
to be met each year until the directories are 95% accurate on or before July 1, 2029. The bill would
subject a plan or insurer to administrative penalties for failure to meet the prescribed benchmarks. The
bill would require a plan or insurer to provide coverage for all covered health care services provided to
an enrollee or insured who reasonably relied on inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information
contained in a health plan or policy’s provider directory or directories and to reimburse the provider the
out-of-network amount for those services. The bill would prohibit a provider from collecting an additional
amount from an enrollee or insured other than the applicable in-network cost sharing. The bill would
require a plan or insurer to provide information about in-network providers to enrollees and insureds
upon request, and would limit the cost-sharing amounts an enrollee or insured is required to pay for
services from those providers under specified circumstances. The bill would require the health care
service plan or the insurer, as applicable, to ensure the accuracy of a request to add back a provider
who was previously removed from a directory and approve the request within 10 business days of
receipt, if accurate. Because a 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. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
AB 371
(Haney D) Dental coverage.
Current Text: Amended: 3/13/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/3/2025
Last Amend: 4/24/2025
Status: 5/22/2025-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(5). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
on 5/14/2025)(May be acted upon Jan 2026)
Location: 5/22/2025-A. 2 YEAR
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’s requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of
health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law prohibits a contract between a plan or
insurer and a dentist from requiring a dentist to accept an amount set by the plan or insurer as
payment for dental care services provided to an enrollee or insured that are not covered services under
the enrollee’s contract or the insured’s policy. Existing law requires a plan or insurer to make specified
disclosures to an enrollee or insured regarding noncovered dental services. Existing law requires a
health care service plan or health insurer to comply with specified timely access requirements. For a
specified plan or insurer offering coverage for dental services, existing law requires urgent dental
appointments to be offered within 72 hours of a request, nonurgent dental appointments to be offered
within 36 business days of a request, and preventive dental care appointments to be offered within 40
business days of a request, as specified. Existing law requires a contract between a health care service
plan and health care provider to ensure compliance with network adequacy standards and to require
reporting by providers to plans to ensure compliance. Under existing law, a health care service plan is
required to annually report to the Department of Managed Health Care on this compliance. Existing law
authorizes the Department of Insurance to issue guidance to insurers regarding annual timely access
and network reporting methodologies. If a health care service plan or health insurer pays a contracting
dental provider directly for covered services, this bill would require the plan or insurer to pay a
noncontracting dental provider directly for covered services if the noncontracting provider submits to
the plan or insurer a written assignment of benefits form signed by the enrollee or insured. The bill
would require the plan or insurer to provide a predetermination or prior authorization to the dental
provider and to reimburse the provider for not less than that amount, except as specified. The bill would
require the plan or insurer to notify the enrollee or insured that the provider was paid and that the outof-
network cost may count towards their annual or lifetime maximum. The bill would require a
noncontracting dental provider to make specified disclosures to an enrollee or insured before accepting
an assignment of benefits. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1190
(Haney D) Department of Motor Vehicles: private industry partner fees.
Current Text: Amended: 4/21/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 4/21/2025Status: 5/28/2025-Referred to Com. on TRANS.
Location: 5/28/2025-S. TRANS.
Summary: Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish contracts for electronic
programs that allow qualified private industry partners, including second-line business partners, to
provide services that include processing and payment programs for vehicle registration and titling
transactions. Existing law authorizes the department to establish the maximum amount that a qualified
private industry partner may charge its customers, but requires the department to annually adjust that
amount, as specified. The bill would, notwithstanding the above-described authorization to establish
maximum charge amounts, require the department to limit the amount that any qualified second-line
business partner may charge their customers to no more than 5% above the fees that the department
charges to consumers when providing those services directly, as specified. The bill would also direct the
department to require all qualified second-line business partners to prominently display on their internet
websites, in a clear and conspicuous manner, a working link to the department’s internet website with a
specified statement informing the public that consumers may obtain services from the department at no additional cost.
SB 56
(Seyarto R)
Property taxation: disabled veterans’ exemption: household income.
Current Text: Amended: 3/5/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 1/7/2025
Last Amend: 3/5/2025
Status: 5/27/2025-Ordered to special consent calendar.
Location: 5/27/2025-S. CONSENT CALENDAR
Calendar: 5/29/2025 #287 SENATE SPECIAL CONSENT CALENDAR NO. 09
Summary: The California Constitution provides that all property is taxable, and requires that it be
assessed at the same percentage of fair market value, unless otherwise provided by the California
Constitution or federal law. The California Constitution and existing property tax law provide various
exemptions from taxation, including, among others, a disabled veterans’ exemption. Under existing law,
the disabled veterans’ exemption exempts from taxation part of the full value of property that
constitutes the principal place of residence of a veteran, the veteran’s spouse, or the veteran and
veteran’s spouse jointly, and the unmarried surviving spouse of a veteran, as provided, if the veteran
incurred specified injuries or died while on active duty in military service, as described. Existing law
exempts that part of the full value of the residence that does not exceed $100,000, or $150,000 if the
household income of the claimant does not exceed $40,000, as adjusted for inflation, as specified. This
bill would exclude service-connected disability payments from the definition of “household income” for
purposes of the disabled veterans’ exemption. The bill would also correct an erroneous cross-reference
in the above-described provisions. By imposing additional duties on local tax officials, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws.
SB 351
(Cabaldon D) Health facilities.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/12/2025 html pdf
Introduced: 2/12/2025
Status: 5/28/2025-Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 6.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 5/28/2025-A. DESK
Calendar: 4/21/2025 10 a.m. and upon adjournment of Session, if necessary - 1021 O Street, Room
2100 SENATE BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ASHBY, ANGELIQUE, Chair
Summary: Existing law generally regulates the licensing and operation of health facilities and other
facilities providing health care in this state. Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, creates the Medical
Board of California to license and regulate physicians and surgeons. Under existing law, the Dental
Practice Act, the Dental Board of California licenses and regulates dentists. Existing law, the Nonprofit
Public Benefit Corporation Law, generally requires a nonprofit public benefit corporation to give written
notice to the Attorney General before it sells, leases, conveys, exchanges, transfers, or disposes of its
assets, except as specified. Existing law provides specific procedures for health facilities and
additionally requires these facilities to obtain the consent of the Attorney General prior to entering into
a specified agreement or transaction. This bill would prohibit a private equity group or hedge fund, as
defined, involved in any manner with a physician or dental practice doing business in this state from
interfering with the professional judgment of physicians or dentists in making health care decisions and
exercising power over specified actions, including, among other things, making decisions regarding
coding and billing procedures for patient care services. The bill would prohibit a private equity group or
hedge fund from entering into an agreement or arrangement with a physician or dental practice if the
agreement or arrangement would enable the person or entity to engage in the prohibited actions
described above. The bill would render void and unenforceable specified types of contracts between a
physician or dental practice and a private equity group or hedge fund that explicitly or implicitly include
any clause barring any provider in that practice from competing with that practice in the event of a
termination or resignation, or from disparaging, opining, or commenting on that practice in any manner
as to any issues involving quality of care, utilization of care, ethical or professional challenges in the
practice of medicine or dentistry, or revenue-increasing strategies employed by the private equity group
or hedge fund, as specified. This bill would entitle the Attorney General to injunctive relief and
attorney’s fees and costs for the enforcement of these provisions, as specified.