BILL NUMBER: SB 1196	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1381 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health care coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1196, as introduced, Hernandez. Health care service plans:
inspection of records.
   Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,
provides for the licensing and regulation of health care service
plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Under existing law,
the records, books, and papers of a health care service plan, and of
any provider or subcontractor providing health care services, must be
open for inspection, as specified, by the Director of the Department
of Managed Health Care.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1381 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1381.  (a) All records, books, and papers of a  health care
service  plan, management company, solicitor, solicitor firm,
and any provider or subcontractor providing health care or other
services to a  health care service  plan, management
company, solicitor, or solicitor firm shall be open to inspection
during normal business hours by the director.
   (b) To the extent feasible, all  such  records,
books, and papers described in subdivision (a) shall be located in
this state. In examining  such  records outside this
state, the director shall consider the cost to the  health care
service  plan, consistent with the effectiveness of the director'
s examination, and may upon reasonable notice require that 
such   the  records, books and papers, or a
specified portion thereof, be made available for examination in this
state, or that a true and accurate copy of  such 
 the  records, books and papers, or a specified portion
thereof, be furnished to the director.