republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1391.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance: omnibus."
description: "(1) Existing law requires an entity seeking to be licensed as a risk retention group to be organized under California law and licensed as a liability insurance company. A risk retention group is a corporation, public entity, or other limited liability association that meets certain criteria, including that its primary activity consists of assuming and spreading all, or any portion, of the liability exposure of its group members. Existing law also exempts risk retention groups from the Business Transacted with Producer Controlled Insurer Act, which regulates controlled insurers, as prescribed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1391"
citation: "California AB 1391 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance: omnibus."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-03-04"
last_action: "2013-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c737508-b4e0-4d6b-8821-573d2bbd8ec8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391"
source_hash: "7ab6ae8e383db14268bb3a820975852436b667f3c42ca2f2293ec75bf01413da"
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 1391 (20132014) — Insurance: omnibus.

(1) Existing law requires an entity seeking to be licensed as a risk retention group to be organized under California law and licensed as a liability insurance company. A risk retention group is a corporation, public entity, or other limited liability association that meets certain criteria, including that its primary activity consists of assuming and spreading all, or any portion, of the liability exposure of its group members. Existing law also exempts risk retention groups from the Business Transacted with Producer Controlled Insurer Act, which regulates controlled insurers, as prescribed.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/04/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139199INT)
2. **04/03/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139198AMD)
3. **04/11/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139197AMD)
4. **06/17/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139196AMD)
5. **06/27/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139195AMD)
6. **08/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139194AMD)
7. **09/20/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139192CHP)
8. **AB1391** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391)
9. **08/28/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1391&version=20130AB139193ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1391 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1391 Committee on INS. (Perea) By Calderon — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1391 INS. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By PEREA — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-03-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-05** From printer. May be heard in committee April 4.
- **2013-03-14** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-11** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1345.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-26** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-12** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1943.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2694.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2013-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 321, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c737508-b4e0-4d6b-8821-573d2bbd8ec8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).