republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-894.md

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Bill	Property insurance.	Existing law requires an insurer, in the case of a total loss to the primary insured structure under a policy of residential property insurance, to offer to renew the policy at least once if the loss to the primary insured structure was caused by a disaster, as defined, and was not also due to the negligence of the insured, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 894	California SB 894 (20172018)	bill	Property insurance.	enacted	Dodd	11	30	5	2018-01-12	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/f7f43ee7-8103-4764-b59c-0af81bfd0016	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB894	17f8d91bdc4cab88c078a31d93c98cb29b743f20d7ccd73be652ff4286204efa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 894 (20172018) — Property insurance.

Existing law requires an insurer, in the case of a total loss to the primary insured structure under a policy of residential property insurance, to offer to renew the policy at least once if the loss to the primary insured structure was caused by a disaster, as defined, and was not also due to the negligence of the insured, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/12/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/26/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/08/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/02/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/23/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/14/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB894 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/06/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB894 Dodd et al. — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• SB 894 Dodd Senate Third Reading By LEVINE — 51–25 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB894 Dodd et al. Concurrence — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-01-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15.
• 2018-01-24 Referred to Com. on I., B. & F.I. referral-committee
• 2018-02-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on I., B. & F.I. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-03-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on I., B. & F.I. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-03-15 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-23 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2018-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 4884.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-05-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-05-23 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 4342.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-11 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2018-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-20 June 20 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-07-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 6959.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 6135.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 618, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7f43ee7-8103-4764-b59c-0af81bfd0016. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).