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Bill	Long-term care benefits.	Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including life and long-term care insurance. Under existing law, a life insurance policy may accelerate long-term care benefits as an alternative to a life settlement. Existing law authorizes an accelerated death benefit to be added to a life insurance policy to provide for the advance payment of a part of the death proceeds if a qualifying event, including a terminal or chronic illness, occurs. Existing law imposes requirements on an insurer before the lapse or termination of a long-term care insurance policy or certificate, and requires a long-term care insurance policy or certificate to provide for reinstatement of coverage if the insured has a cognitive impairment and specified criteria are met.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1209	California AB 1209 (20192020)	bill	Long-term care benefits.	enacted	Nazarian	8	28	7	2019-02-21	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/738e6033-69d3-4fe8-b3c8-dafe988259dc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1209	068e7c545d51febd42c1f7416b43eff5759ed14a027269d98efe4d1ed22e7697	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1209 (20192020) — Long-term care benefits.

Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including life and long-term care insurance. Under existing law, a life insurance policy may accelerate long-term care benefits as an alternative to a life settlement. Existing law authorizes an accelerated death benefit to be added to a life insurance policy to provide for the advance payment of a part of the death proceeds if a qualifying event, including a terminal or chronic illness, occurs. Existing law imposes requirements on an insurer before the lapse or termination of a long-term care insurance policy or certificate, and requires a long-term care insurance policy or certificate to provide for reinstatement of coverage if the insured has a cognitive impairment and specified criteria are met.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1209 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1209 Nazarian Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1209 Nazarian Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1209 Nazarian et al. By Rubio — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)
• Voepel — coauthor (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.
• 2019-03-28 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and INS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 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
• 2019-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1629.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2774.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3386.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 625, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/738e6033-69d3-4fe8-b3c8-dafe988259dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).