---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long-term care insurance."
description: "Existing law provides for the regulation of insurers by the Department of Insurance, including insurers issuing policies of long-term care insurance. Existing law regulates the marketing or solicitation of long-term care insurance policies and, in that regard, requires specified disclosures to prospective applicants or enrollees. Existing law requires the Insurance Commissioner to annually prepare a consumer rate guide for long-term care insurance and to include specified information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 999"
citation: "California AB 999 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Long-term care insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yamada"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2012-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07ca3eee-8c4a-40c7-8325-c665930a5366"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999"
source_hash: "e02556e74e3808440f34becec2eebf7d96dcc22b854cea7335320f600d4938cb"
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 999 (20112012) — Long-term care insurance.

Existing law provides for the regulation of insurers by the Department of Insurance, including insurers issuing policies of long-term care insurance. Existing law regulates the marketing or solicitation of long-term care insurance policies and, in that regard, requires specified disclosures to prospective applicants or enrollees. Existing law requires the Insurance Commissioner to annually prepare a consumer rate guide for long-term care insurance and to include specified information.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99999INT)
2. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99998AMD)
3. **05/11/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99997AMD)
4. **06/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99995AMD)
5. **06/09/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99996AMD)
6. **08/23/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99994AMD)
7. **09/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99992CHP)
8. **AB999** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999)
9. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB999&version=20110AB99993ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **11–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 999 YAMADA Assembly Third Reading — **42–33** (pass) · lower
- AB 999 YAMADA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–27** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB999 Yamada By Alquist — **21–12** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yamada — primary (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-10** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 5.) (May 4). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-12** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 33. Page 1755.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Further hearing to be set.
- **2012-06-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-25** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2012-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 4958.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-30** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 27. Page 6626.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:40 p.m.
- **2012-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 627, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07ca3eee-8c4a-40c7-8325-c665930a5366`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).