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Bill	Public insurance adjusters.	Existing law, the Public Insurance Adjusters Act, sets forth various requirements with respect to operation as a public insurance adjuster in this state, including, but not limited to, that the person be licensed and licensing qualifications and application requirements for public insurance adjusters, nonresident public insurance adjusters, and interim public insurance adjusters. Any person who knowingly falsifies the fingerprints or photographs submitted as part of the application process is guilty of a felony, and any person who violates any other provision governing public insurance adjusters is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law prescribes a schedule for various public insurance adjuster application, license, and license renewal fees.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 488	California SB 488 (20152016)	bill	Public insurance adjusters.	enacted	Block	8	30	7	2015-02-26	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/cb146a73-66ca-4fb8-8a5a-fbe0f52d994a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB488	f32cfd2198f9ae8c0b888c4142d82faef1ce78775dd850ddbce38ea218bbe09c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 488 (20152016) — Public insurance adjusters.

Existing law, the Public Insurance Adjusters Act, sets forth various requirements with respect to operation as a public insurance adjuster in this state, including, but not limited to, that the person be licensed and licensing qualifications and application requirements for public insurance adjusters, nonresident public insurance adjusters, and interim public insurance adjusters. Any person who knowingly falsifies the fingerprints or photographs submitted as part of the application process is guilty of a felony, and any person who violates any other provision governing public insurance adjusters is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Existing law prescribes a schedule for various public insurance adjuster application, license, and license renewal fees.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB488 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 488 Block Senate Third Reading By HEALTH Amendment Set #1 — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 488 Block Senate Third Reading By COOLEY — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-03-27 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2015-04-21 April 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-01-04 Set for hearing January 13.
• 2016-01-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 2896.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-14 Set for hearing January 19.
• 2016-01-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2016-01-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2943.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2016-05-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2016-08-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5949.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6011.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5495.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 833, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cb146a73-66ca-4fb8-8a5a-fbe0f52d994a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).