---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance: surplus lines."
description: "Insurance: surplus lines."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1081"
citation: "California AB 1081 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance: surplus lines."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "1999-02-25"
last_action: "1999-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f224bb60-7a88-4f4e-a240-b3594b588e57"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081"
source_hash: "52420bf9a2cf235b4491732db9a78f133b465c5c35f75a78a44c2d7fbfcb6533"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1081 (19992000) — Insurance: surplus lines.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/25/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081&version=19990AB108199INT)
2. **04/27/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081&version=19990AB108198AMD)
3. **05/28/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081&version=19990AB108197AMD)
4. **07/01/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081&version=19990AB108196AMD)
5. **09/27/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081&version=19990AB108194CHP)
6. **AB1081** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081)
7. **08/31/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1081&version=19990AB108195ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1081 CALDERON CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1081 CALDERON THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1081 Calderon By Johnston — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)
- Johnston — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 498, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **1999-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3665.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **1999-08-23** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2557.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-08-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-07-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-07-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 9. Page 2327.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 7.) (May 26). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-06** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-27** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-26** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 21). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **1999-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f224bb60-7a88-4f4e-a240-b3594b588e57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).