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Bill	Insurance: policy documents.	Existing law requires an insurer, after a covered loss under a fire insurance policy, to provide the insured with a free copy of his or her policy within 30 calendar days of receiving a request from the insured, but allows the Insurance Commissioner to extend this period. Existing law also provides that an insured who does not experience a covered loss shall, upon request, be entitled to one free copy of his or her policy annually.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1799	California AB 1799 (20172018)	bill	Insurance: policy documents.	enacted	Levine	5	17	4	2018-01-09	2018-07-09	openstates	ocd-bill/c12c22af-e15e-48f6-8fe0-eea9fed1f344	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1799	f104e5f86c851ec3a1134accf165db81beba05d2f056a22a0ee9c5de85b1490b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1799 (20172018) — Insurance: policy documents.

Existing law requires an insurer, after a covered loss under a fire insurance policy, to provide the insured with a free copy of his or her policy within 30 calendar days of receiving a request from the insured, but allows the Insurance Commissioner to extend this period. Existing law also provides that an insured who does not experience a covered loss shall, upon request, be entitled to one free copy of his or her policy annually.

Version chain

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

1. 01/09/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/09/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1799 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB1799 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1799 LEVINE Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Levine — primary (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-01-10 From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
• 2018-01-22 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4898.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-06-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4880.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-25 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-06-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-07-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-07-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 69, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c12c22af-e15e-48f6-8fe0-eea9fed1f344. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).