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Bill	Contractors' workers' compensation insurance coverage.	(1) Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires every licensed contractor, or applicant for licensure, to have on file at all times with the board a current and valid Certificate of Workers' Compensation Insurance or Certification of Self-Insurance, or a statement certifying that he or she has no employees and is not required to obtain or maintain workers' compensation insurance. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires a contractor with a C-39 roofing classification to obtain and maintain workers' compensation insurance even if he or she has no employees.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2219	California AB 2219 (20112012)	bill	Contractors' workers' compensation insurance coverage.	enacted	Knight	6	26	7	2012-02-24	2012-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/21e0e968-ae34-43f1-aa1a-500e6bcfd480	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2219	a90450d72933dc5e2a2c737c99895ed9af772da1708a3c5a8f4032cce2b7b5e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2219 (20112012) — Contractors' workers' compensation insurance coverage.

(1) Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires every licensed contractor, or applicant for licensure, to have on file at all times with the board a current and valid Certificate of Workers' Compensation Insurance or Certification of Self-Insurance, or a statement certifying that he or she has no employees and is not required to obtain or maintain workers' compensation insurance. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires a contractor with a C-39 roofing classification to obtain and maintain workers' compensation insurance even if he or she has no employees.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/19/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2219 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2219 KNIGHT Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2219 KNIGHT Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #16 AB2219 Knight By Strickland — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Insurance. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Knight — primary (person)
• Hagman — coauthor (person)
• Jeffries — coauthor (person)
• Strickland — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-15 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & C.P. and INS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5062.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4783.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6374.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:25 a.m.
• 2012-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 389, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21e0e968-ae34-43f1-aa1a-500e6bcfd480. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).