---
type: "Bill"
title: "Senior insurance: veterans benefits."
description: "Existing law requires all insurers, brokers, agents, and others engaged in the transaction of insurance to owe to a prospective insured who is 65 years of age or older, a duty of honesty, good faith, and fair dealing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 1184"
citation: "California SB 1184 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Senior insurance: veterans benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-22"
last_action: "2012-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/742c1300-7699-4206-a50b-2037ebb9b027"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1184"
source_hash: "7e1d20a44a457682cd6f7d885c5e3919b430f36c81e182b9c478f4a988864623"
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 1184 (20112012) — Senior insurance: veterans benefits.

Existing law requires all insurers, brokers, agents, and others engaged in the transaction of insurance to owe to a prospective insured who is 65 years of age or older, a duty of honesty, good faith, and fair dealing.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1184&version=20110SB118499INT)
2. **04/09/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1184&version=20110SB118498AMD)
3. **04/17/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1184&version=20110SB118497AMD)
4. **08/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1184&version=20110SB118495CHP)
5. **SB1184** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1184)
6. **08/16/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1184&version=20110SB118496ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1184 Corbett Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)
- Lieu — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-22** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2012-02-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2012-03-01** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-23** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2012-04-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-04-16** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3143.) (April 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-04-20** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2012-04-30** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2012-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3400.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-10** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5968.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-16** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2012-08-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-08-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-08-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 222, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/742c1300-7699-4206-a50b-2037ebb9b027`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).