model confidence 60%
Adds pregnancy as a special enrollment triggering event for individual health plans, allowing pregnant individuals to enroll or change coverage outside of open enrollment periods, which expands access to health plans that may cover abortion services.
(J) The individual is pregnant.
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model confidence 50%
Makes pregnancy a triggering event for enrollment or changing health benefit plans, facilitating earlier access to pregnancy-related health coverage including potential abortion services.
This bill would make pregnancy a triggering event for purposes of enrollment or changing a health benefit plan.
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Status: Vetoed
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends health coverage rules to add pregnancy as a qualifying triggering event for special enrollment in individual market health plans (both on and off the Exchange). This has no direct provisions on abortion access, bans, gestational limits, or funding restrictions, but by enabling pregnant individuals to obtain or switch coverage mid-year it indirectly expands access to insured health services that may include abortion. No other listed topics are substantively addressed.
| Date | Chamber | Motion | Yea-Nay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-24 | A | Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] | 16-0 | Passed |
| 2026-05-14 | A | Do pass | 14-0 | Passed |
| 2026-05-21 | A | AB 2066 Celeste Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading By BONTA | 70-0 | Passed |
| 2026-06-24 | S | Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] | 11-0 | Passed |
| 2026-08-25 | S | Assembly 3rd Reading AB2066 Celeste Rodriguez By Wahab | 40-0 | Passed |
| 2026-08-26 | A | AB 2066 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments | 76-0 | Passed |
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | A | Vetoed by Governor. |
| 2026-09-03 | Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. | |
| 2026-08-26 | A | Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6601.). |
| 2026-08-26 | A | In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. |
| 2026-08-25 | S | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5807.). |
| 2026-08-25 | S | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). |
| 2026-08-24 | S | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| 2026-08-21 | S | Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. |
| 2026-08-04 | S | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| 2026-08-03 | S | From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. |
| 2026-06-25 | S | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| 2026-06-03 | S | Referred to Com. on HEALTH. |
| 2026-05-21 | S | In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. |
| 2026-05-21 | A | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5219.) |
| 2026-05-18 | A | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| 2026-05-14 | A | From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 14). |
| 2026-04-08 | A | In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. |
| 2026-03-25 | A | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| 2026-03-25 | A | Coauthors revised. |
| 2026-03-02 | A | Referred to Com. on HEALTH. |
| 2026-02-19 | A | From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. |
| 2026-02-18 | A | Read first time. To print. |