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Bill	Life insurance: accelerated death benefits.	Existing law governs the business of insurance, and defines various types of insurance for these purposes, including life insurance and disability insurance. Existing law, except as provided, makes the requirements imposed on disability insurance contracts inapplicable to life insurance, endowment, and annuity contracts, or supplemental contracts thereto, that provide additional benefits in case of death or dismemberment or loss of sight by accident, or that operate to safeguard contracts against lapse, or give a special surrender benefit, or a special benefit, as specified. Existing law also provides the language required as part of a provision or supplemental contract governed by these provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 281	California SB 281 (20132014)	bill	Life insurance: accelerated death benefits.	enacted	Calderon	10	35	8	2013-02-14	2013-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/7b426334-1213-4f4f-85b1-2f659bd0563b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB281	0f77d4edab34df01974a2e001622113452e136293e3693f9b69bbcfe6cd1bc57	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 281 (20132014) — Life insurance: accelerated death benefits.

Existing law governs the business of insurance, and defines various types of insurance for these purposes, including life insurance and disability insurance. Existing law, except as provided, makes the requirements imposed on disability insurance contracts inapplicable to life insurance, endowment, and annuity contracts, or supplemental contracts thereto, that provide additional benefits in case of death or dismemberment or loss of sight by accident, or that operate to safeguard contracts against lapse, or give a special surrender benefit, or a special benefit, as specified. Existing law also provides the language required as part of a provision or supplemental contract governed by these provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/05/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/24/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB281 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Supp 1 SB281 Calderon Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 281 Calderon Senate Third Reading By COOLEY — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #7 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)
• Cooley — coauthor (person)
• Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Hagman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2013-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2013-02-28 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2013-03-28 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2013-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-08 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-04-16 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2013-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 662.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2013-05-09 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-05-10 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2013-05-20 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-05-21 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2013-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1010.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1190.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-14 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2013-07-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-21 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-06 Read third time and amended. (Page 2952.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2013-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3181.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2378.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2013-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 345, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b426334-1213-4f4f-85b1-2f659bd0563b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).