---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wildfire agencies: public utilities: safety and insurance."
description: "Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention, detection, and mitigation of wildfires. Other existing law establishes the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) , administered under the authority of the Insurance Commissioner, to transact insurance in this state as necessary to sell policies of basic residential earthquake insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 111"
citation: "California AB 111 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Wildfire agencies: public utilities: safety and insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37f36bb6-39c7-4c1d-adaf-1cf962c2ca0c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB111"
source_hash: "810e307380763baf8dff468a2e74df13343d8a0e918af800b6e89172ddde6e49"
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 111 (20192020) — Wildfire agencies: public utilities: safety and insurance.

Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention, detection, and mitigation of wildfires. Other existing law establishes the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) , administered under the authority of the Insurance Commissioner, to transact insurance in this state as necessary to sell policies of basic residential earthquake insurance.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB111&version=20190AB11199INT)
2. **07/05/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB111&version=20190AB11198AMD)
3. **07/08/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB111&version=20190AB11197AMD)
4. **07/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB111&version=20190AB11195CHP)
5. **AB111** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB111)
6. **07/11/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB111&version=20190AB11196ENR)

## Votes

- 2nd Reading AB111 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell — **35–4** (pass) · upper
- AB 111 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 111 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **54–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **13–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 1032.)
- **2019-04-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1183.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-07-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-08** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1988.)
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (July 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 4. Page 2051.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-07-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 16. Page 2619.)
- **2019-07-11** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 16. Page 2619.)
- **2019-07-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2624.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2019-07-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37f36bb6-39c7-4c1d-adaf-1cf962c2ca0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).