---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance."
description: "Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2144"
citation: "California AB 2144 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2002-02-20"
last_action: "2002-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92a2f28e-75c5-4779-ac23-31376408f967"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2144"
source_hash: "a3ffee4bef7aea613649048e8cae61b2aed0cf79d6a9e38c7c29c09a78466f40"
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 2144 (20012002) — Insurance.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2144&version=20010AB214499INT)
2. **07/11/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2144&version=20010AB214497CHP)
3. **AB2144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2144)
4. **06/27/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2144&version=20010AB214498ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- AB 2144 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2144 Committee on Insurance (Calderon) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-07-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-07-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2002-06-27** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-06-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5027.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-06-24** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-16** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6168.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-13** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-02-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2002-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92a2f28e-75c5-4779-ac23-31376408f967`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).