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type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance: policy documents."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1799"
citation: "California AB 1799 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance: policy documents."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Levine"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c12c22af-e15e-48f6-8fe0-eea9fed1f344"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1799"
source_hash: "f104e5f86c851ec3a1134accf165db81beba05d2f056a22a0ee9c5de85b1490b"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1799&version=20170AB179999INT)
2. **04/12/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1799&version=20170AB179998AMD)
3. **07/09/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1799&version=20170AB179996CHP)
4. **AB1799** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1799)
5. **06/27/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1799&version=20170AB179997ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar AB1799 — **360** (pass) · upper
- AB 1799 LEVINE Consent Calendar Second Day — **740** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **130** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **110** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c12c22af-e15e-48f6-8fe0-eea9fed1f344`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).