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Bill	Insurance: production agents: license examinations.	Existing law requires the Insurance Commissioner to give, at least once each month, in each of the cities in which he or she has an office, qualifying examinations for production agent licenses. Existing law requires every qualifying examination for a production agent license to be in writing and to be of sufficient scope to satisfy the commissioner that the applicant has sufficient knowledge of, and is reasonably familiar with, the insurance laws of this state and with the provisions, terms, and conditions of the insurance that may be transacted pursuant to the license sought, and that the applicant has a general and fair understanding of the obligations and duties of the holder of that license.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1899	California AB 1899 (20152016)	bill	Insurance: production agents: license examinations.	enacted	Calderon	7	24	8	2016-02-11	2016-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/7d5fe7a3-0698-457a-9176-996b072a616f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1899	ca3f781bc32f4c3c1092677d690737ca1d8fc97e9552322afa027d0efd4c6abb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1899 (20152016) — Insurance: production agents: license examinations.

Existing law requires the Insurance Commissioner to give, at least once each month, in each of the cities in which he or she has an office, qualifying examinations for production agent licenses. Existing law requires every qualifying examination for a production agent license to be in writing and to be of sufficient scope to satisfy the commissioner that the applicant has sufficient knowledge of, and is reasonably familiar with, the insurance laws of this state and with the provisions, terms, and conditions of the insurance that may be transacted pursuant to the license sought, and that the applicant has a general and fair understanding of the obligations and duties of the holder of that license.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/24/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1899 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 19–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1899 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — 78–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1899 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1899 Calderon By Mendoza — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2016-03-14 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 1.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 2. Page 5132.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2016-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5309.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 3. Page 6464.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 560, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d5fe7a3-0698-457a-9176-996b072a616f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).