---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance information: confidentiality."
description: "Existing law prohibits insurance institutions, agents, or insurance-support organizations from disclosing personal or privileged information collected in connection with an insurance transaction unless a specified exception applies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 470"
citation: "California AB 470 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance information: confidentiality."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Niello"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-02-24"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46bbd47b-09e0-4022-8261-758f7024b089"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB470"
source_hash: "c6b0d9ae79f8b7af91b4d42b40c2c0f45cf81970d600c6c8d4f58a7f4975d00e"
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 470 (20092010) — Insurance information: confidentiality.

Existing law prohibits insurance institutions, agents, or insurance-support organizations from disclosing personal or privileged information collected in connection with an insurance transaction unless a specified exception applies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB470&version=20090AB47099INT)
2. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB470&version=20090AB47097CHP)
3. **AB470** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB470)
4. **07/02/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB470&version=20090AB47098ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB470 Niello — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 470 NIELLO Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Niello — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2009-03-26** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-07** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1466.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Coms. on B., F. & I. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-18** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-25** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-29** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1518.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-29** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 112, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46bbd47b-09e0-4022-8261-758f7024b089`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).