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Bill	Long-term care insurance.	Existing law provides for regulation of insurers, including insurers issuing policies of long-term care insurance, by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law requires benefits under individual long-term care insurance policies issued before new premium rate schedules are approved to be deemed reasonable in relation to premiums if the expected loss ratio is at least 60%, calculated in a manner that provides for adequate reserving of the risk.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 389	California AB 389 (20092010)	bill	Long-term care insurance.	enacted	Saldana	9	27	6	2009-02-23	2009-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c3b23d3e-f17a-4d35-a17c-1482e08b2a0d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB389	07fcdabcf1df20e6ddd0ef04b2d9cb6d92157a1910bc50a214bb5dc4a0c5a460	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 389 (20092010) — Long-term care insurance.

Existing law provides for regulation of insurers, including insurers issuing policies of long-term care insurance, by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law requires benefits under individual long-term care insurance policies issued before new premium rate schedules are approved to be deemed reasonable in relation to premiums if the expected loss ratio is at least 60%, calculated in a manner that provides for adequate reserving of the risk.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/30/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/18/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/15/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/06/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB389 (committee substitute) — source
9. 07/15/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #12 AB389 Saldana — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 389 SALDANA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 389 SALDANA Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Saldana — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2009-04-29 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-19 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1632.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-04 Referred to Com. on B., F. & I. referral-committee
• 2009-06-15 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. & I. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-22 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-06-29 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-06-30 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-02 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-07-09 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1666.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-07-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2490.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3b23d3e-f17a-4d35-a17c-1482e08b2a0d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).