California AB350: Health care coverage: fluoride treatments.

What the bill says

An act to add Section 1367.73 to the Health and Safety Code, to add Section 10120.45 to the Insurance Code, and to amend Section 14132 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to health care coverage. health care coverage Health care coverage: fluoride treatments. 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…

From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:

An act to add Section 1367.73 to the Health and Safety Code, to add Section 10120.45 to the Insurance Code, and to amend Section 14132 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to health care coverage. health care coverage Health care coverage: fluoride treatments. 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 sets forth specified coverage requirements for health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies. 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, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires an essential health benefit to be provided only to the extent that federal law does not require the state to defray the costs of the benefit. This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2027, that provides coverage for the …

Read the full official text

Sponsors

• Mia Bonta (D, AD18) · primary sponsor