---
type: "Bill"
title: "Automobile insurance: assigned risk plans: low-cost automobile insurance."
description: "(1) Existing law provides for the formation of the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan for automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1597"
citation: "California AB 1597 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Automobile insurance: assigned risk plans: low-cost automobile insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-01-04"
last_action: "2010-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31a87800-6872-48ba-abc1-acd794430c47"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1597"
source_hash: "418ffb5ac8a2223e124e8cc32829f96a46759666f257181bf674ea1ab0348089"
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 1597 (20092010) — Automobile insurance: assigned risk plans: low-cost automobile insurance.

(1) Existing law provides for the formation of the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan for automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1597&version=20090AB159799INT)
2. **03/08/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1597&version=20090AB159798AMD)
3. **04/13/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1597&version=20090AB159797AMD)
4. **09/24/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1597&version=20090AB159795CHP)
5. **AB1597** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1597)
6. **08/12/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1597&version=20090AB159796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1597 Jones By Denham — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1597 JONES Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Conway — coauthor (person)
- Coto — coauthor (person)
- DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
- Denham — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Torres — coauthor (person)
- Wiggins — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
- **2010-01-14** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-12** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-13** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 5128.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-27** Referred to Com. on B., F. & I. `referral-committee`
- **2010-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 2. Page 4455.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-08-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m.
- **2010-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 234, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31a87800-6872-48ba-abc1-acd794430c47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).