republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1104.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association."
description: "Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and prescribes the department's powers and duties. Existing law establishes the Office of Principle-Based Reserving within the department and authorizes the commissioner to hire and assign department staff, and to retain actuaries and consultants, to assist with the preparation and implementation of principle-based valuation. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to impose an annual assessment on an insurer, based on the insurer's position in a tiered system relating to the gross annual life insurance premium written by the insurer in California during the immediately preceding year. Existing law requires an insurer with long-term care insurance contracts covering more than 10,000 lives to annually file disclosure reports with the commissioner and the department's Office of Principle-Based Reserving."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1104"
citation: "California AB 1104 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72b15e20-1175-4c9a-a27e-0d06671d141d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1104"
source_hash: "c11707935134e87274939d9a30e06b1ff3fcc9174271090f93c77d2caa6d04a1"
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 1104 (20192020) — California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association.

Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and prescribes the department's powers and duties. Existing law establishes the Office of Principle-Based Reserving within the department and authorizes the commissioner to hire and assign department staff, and to retain actuaries and consultants, to assist with the preparation and implementation of principle-based valuation. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to impose an annual assessment on an insurer, based on the insurer's position in a tiered system relating to the gross annual life insurance premium written by the insurer in California during the immediately preceding year. Existing law requires an insurer with long-term care insurance contracts covering more than 10,000 lives to annually file disclosure reports with the commissioner and the department's Office of Principle-Based Reserving.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1104&version=20190AB110499INT)
2. **03/27/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1104&version=20190AB110498AMD)
3. **09/05/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1104&version=20190AB110496CHP)
4. **AB1104** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1104)
5. **08/23/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1104&version=20190AB110497ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1104 Calderon By Roth — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1104 Calderon Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1826.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2241.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 236, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72b15e20-1175-4c9a-a27e-0d06671d141d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).