AB 687: Health care coverage: colorectal cancer screening.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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 generally requires a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, to provide coverage without cost sharing for a colorectal cancer screening test assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force and for a required colonoscopy for a positive result on a test with those grades.

This bill would additionally require that coverage if the screening test is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and either meets requirements for coverage established by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as specified, or is included in the most recently published guidelines from the American Cancer Society. Because a violation of the bill by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. June 25, 2026In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2. June 22, 2026Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
3. June 15, 2026Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
4. June 15, 2026Withdrawn from committee.
5. June 15, 2026From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
6. July 2, 2025In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
7. June 18, 2025Referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and E.Q.
8. June 9, 2025In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
9. June 5, 2025Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 3. Page 2112.)
10. May 27, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
11. May 23, 2025Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
12. May 23, 2025From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).