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Bill	Group life insurance: required provisions.	Existing law provides for the regulation of specified insurance products, including group life insurance, by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law provides that insurance under a group life insurance policy may be extended to insure the dependents of each insured employee under the group policy, as specified. Existing law defines a dependent for these purposes as including the employee's spouse and all children from birth until 26 years of age, or a child 26 years of age or older who is both incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of intellectual disability or physical handicap and chiefly dependent upon the employee for support and maintenance, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 565	California AB 565 (20152016)	bill	Group life insurance: required provisions.	enacted	Cooley	8	23	5	2015-02-24	2016-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/af327965-7419-45ad-b7a6-044e7ad1f63c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565	7451e5d781a9a3d4c3729b4627e1477dfdb3c7283cc8be9eb2353a8db53ebd29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 565 (20152016) — Group life insurance: required provisions.

Existing law provides for the regulation of specified insurance products, including group life insurance, by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law provides that insurance under a group life insurance policy may be extended to insure the dependents of each insured employee under the group policy, as specified. Existing law defines a dependent for these purposes as including the employee's spouse and all children from birth until 26 years of age, or a child 26 years of age or older who is both incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of intellectual disability or physical handicap and chiefly dependent upon the employee for support and maintenance, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB565 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 565 COOLEY Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB565 Cooley By Roth — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 565 COOLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cooley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 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
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 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
• 2015-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-05-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. 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. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1452.) 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 Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-06-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5009.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6106.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 440, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af327965-7419-45ad-b7a6-044e7ad1f63c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).