republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-565.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Group life insurance: required provisions."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 565"
citation: "California AB 565 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Group life insurance: required provisions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooley"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2016-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af327965-7419-45ad-b7a6-044e7ad1f63c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565"
source_hash: "7451e5d781a9a3d4c3729b4627e1477dfdb3c7283cc8be9eb2353a8db53ebd29"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565&version=20150AB56599INT)
2. **03/10/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565&version=20150AB56596AMD)
3. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565&version=20150AB56598AMD)
4. **04/28/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565&version=20150AB56597AMD)
5. **06/29/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565&version=20150AB56595AMD)
6. **09/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565&version=20150AB56593CHP)
7. **AB565** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565)
8. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB565&version=20150AB56594ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af327965-7419-45ad-b7a6-044e7ad1f63c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).