republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-553.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance: corporate governance: insurance holding companies."
description: "(1) Existing law regulates the business of insurance, including, but not limited to, requiring that each domestic, foreign, and alien insurer doing business in this state annually, on or before the first day of March of each year, file with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners a copy of its annual statement convention blank, along with any additional filings as prescribed by the Insurance Commissioner for the preceding year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 553"
citation: "California AB 553 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance: corporate governance: insurance holding companies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daly"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2015-02-23"
last_action: "2015-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fa8a2d0-8dc6-4f58-8716-74e02f952b40"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB553"
source_hash: "c5462cf46e3700909b3bc7d1782e980d39078a58322ec0bed195cf125d5d0f37"
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 553 (20152016) — Insurance: corporate governance: insurance holding companies.

(1) Existing law regulates the business of insurance, including, but not limited to, requiring that each domestic, foreign, and alien insurer doing business in this state annually, on or before the first day of March of each year, file with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners a copy of its annual statement convention blank, along with any additional filings as prescribed by the Insurance Commissioner for the preceding year.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB553&version=20150AB55399INT)
2. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB553&version=20150AB55398AMD)
3. **04/22/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB553&version=20150AB55397AMD)
4. **08/17/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB553&version=20150AB55395CHP)
5. **AB553** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB553)
6. **07/13/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB553&version=20150AB55396ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd (Urgency Clause) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 553 DALY Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daly — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2015-03-05** Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** 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`
- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-22** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1448.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-09** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1878.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 213, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fa8a2d0-8dc6-4f58-8716-74e02f952b40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).