---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurers: minority, women, LGBT, veteran, and disabled veteran business enterprises."
description: "Existing law requires each admitted insurer with premiums written equal to or in excess of $100,000,000 to provide information to the Insurance Commissioner on all of its community development investments and community development infrastructure investments in California."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 534"
citation: "California SB 534 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurers: minority", "women", "LGBT", "veteran", "and disabled veteran business enterprises."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbb67bdb-3897-49ca-9274-cb907bc91c97"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534"
source_hash: "4d4a42fa36954ee489703d2b56269d6a69bdd8e0cc26a53db29fd261e40ba2e7"
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 SB 534 (20192020) — Insurers: minority, women, LGBT, veteran, and disabled veteran business enterprises.

Existing law requires each admitted insurer with premiums written equal to or in excess of $100,000,000 to provide information to the Insurance Commissioner on all of its community development investments and community development infrastructure investments in California.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534&version=20190SB53499INT)
2. **03/28/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534&version=20190SB53498AMD)
3. **04/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534&version=20190SB53497AMD)
4. **05/24/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534&version=20190SB53496AMD)
5. **07/03/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534&version=20190SB53495AMD)
6. **09/05/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534&version=20190SB53493CHP)
7. **SB534** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534)
8. **08/27/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB534&version=20190SB53494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — **9–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–3** (pass) · lower
- SB 534 Bradford Senate Third Reading By Daly — **61–4** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB534 Bradford Concurrence — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2019-03-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 652.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-12** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2019-04-29** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 799.) (April 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-03** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2019-05-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 1033.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-24** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 1366.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-13** Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and INS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on INS. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-03** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 4. Page 2809.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-08-26** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 2267.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 249, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbb67bdb-3897-49ca-9274-cb907bc91c97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).