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Bill	Long-term care insurance.	Existing law provides for the regulation of long-term care insurance by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law prohibits an insurer from delivering or issuing for delivery a long-term care policy unless the insurer offers at the time of application an option to purchase a shortened benefit period nonforfeiture benefit. Under existing law, the commissioner may require the administration by an insurer of the contingent benefit upon lapse as a condition of approval or acknowledgment of a rate adjustment for a block of business for which the contingent benefit upon lapse is not otherwise available. Under existing law, the insurer is required to notify policyholders and certificate holders of the contingent benefit upon lapse when required by the commissioner, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 575	California SB 575 (20152016)	bill	Long-term care insurance.	enacted	Liu	8	24	6	2015-02-26	2015-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/8e5c6f0e-d1c5-41d1-b974-be001e344793	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB575	e1d1d6087ad797a171c6e65d234f161ed1215ead7b14fd0a4e328c310a2fd9fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 575 (20152016) — Long-term care insurance.

Existing law provides for the regulation of long-term care insurance by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law prohibits an insurer from delivering or issuing for delivery a long-term care policy unless the insurer offers at the time of application an option to purchase a shortened benefit period nonforfeiture benefit. Under existing law, the commissioner may require the administration by an insurer of the contingent benefit upon lapse as a condition of approval or acknowledgment of a rate adjustment for a block of business for which the contingent benefit upon lapse is not otherwise available. Under existing law, the insurer is required to notify policyholders and certificate holders of the contingent benefit upon lapse when required by the commissioner, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/16/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/13/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/06/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB575 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #9 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 575 Liu Senate Third Reading By BROWN — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Aging and Long-Term Care] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Liu — 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
• 2015-03-20 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2015-04-07 April 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-08 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 727.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 882.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Referred to Coms. on INS. and AGING & L.T.C. referral-committee
• 2015-06-16 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
• 2015-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-09 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2625.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2378.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
• 2015-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 544, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e5c6f0e-d1c5-41d1-b974-be001e344793. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).