Existing law generally regulates the conduct of business between insurers and broker-agents. Under existing law, when a broker-agent's contract is terminated, the rights, duties, and obligations set forth in the terminated contract continue solely with respect to policies then in force or renewed, until those policies are canceled, placed by the broker-agent with another insurer, or have expired, as provided. Existing law requires that if the terminated broker-agent is unable to place existing policies with another insurer, the insurer shall, at the broker-agent's request, renew any insurance contract written by the broker-agent for one policy term or a period of one year, whichever is shorter. Existing law requires an insurer issuing an automobile insurance policy by or through an insurance agent, if a commission is paid to that agent, when issuing a policy in the minimum financial responsibility coverage amount, to pay a commission on the same terms and on the same percentage basis to that agent as for any higher amount of policy coverage sold by that agent.
California AB 2844 (20172018) — Insurance: agents and brokers.
Existing law generally regulates the conduct of business between insurers and broker-agents. Under existing law, when a broker-agent's contract is terminated, the rights, duties, and obligations set forth in the terminated contract continue solely with respect to policies then in force or renewed, until those policies are canceled, placed by the broker-agent with another insurer, or have expired, as provided. Existing law requires that if the terminated broker-agent is unable to place existing policies with another insurer, the insurer shall, at the broker-agent's request, renew any insurance contract written by the broker-agent for one policy term or a period of one year, whichever is shorter. Existing law requires an insurer issuing an automobile insurance policy by or through an insurance agent, if a commission is paid to that agent, when issuing a policy in the minimum financial responsibility coverage amount, to pay a commission on the same terms and on the same percentage basis to that agent as for any higher amount of policy coverage sold by that agent.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2018-03-22 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
2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2018-05-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2018-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 5160.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2018-05-24 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2018-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2018-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
2018-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5986.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 7021.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 879, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe1ac5fb-8d19-4ee4-b885-49d55a59f814. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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