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Bill	Fire insurance.	Existing law generally regulates fire insurance and county mutual fire insurers. Existing law prescribes the standard form for a fire insurance policy or county fire insurance policy. Existing law imposes a 12-month statute of limitations in which to bring suit under a fire insurance policy or a county fire insurance policy after a loss. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for an insurer or agent to countersign or issue a fire policy that varies from the California standard form of policy.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2594	California AB 2594 (20172018)	bill	Fire insurance.	enacted	Friedman	7	22	6	2018-02-15	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/6e82f0fe-04e4-4097-b2a1-45eb8ff5e0d8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2594	967e8ad38a9de67556006b88d645445ee48f6e8449c34125741b0788ed9be00c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2594 (20172018) — Fire insurance.

Existing law generally regulates fire insurance and county mutual fire insurers. Existing law prescribes the standard form for a fire insurance policy or county fire insurance policy. Existing law imposes a 12-month statute of limitations in which to bring suit under a fire insurance policy or a county fire insurance policy after a loss. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for an insurer or agent to countersign or issue a fire policy that varies from the California standard form of policy.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2594 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2594 FRIEDMAN Concurrence - Urgency Added — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2594 FRIEDMAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2594 Friedman By Gaines Urgency Clause — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 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
• 2018-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5131.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-24 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5288.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-20 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6374.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 639, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e82f0fe-04e4-4097-b2a1-45eb8ff5e0d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).