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Bill	Insurance.	Existing law provides for the powers and duties of the Department of Insurance and the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to deny an application for a production agency license, or revoke an existing license, if the applicant or licenseholder has engaged in specified activities. Existing law requires a hearing to suspend or revoke a license, registration, or certificate of authority that involves allegations of misconduct perpetrated against a person age 65 or over to be held within 90 days after the department's receipt of the notice of defense, unless a continuance is granted. Existing law requires the department to maintain certain records in its office in the City and County of San Francisco.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 1255	California SB 1255 (20192020)	bill	Insurance.	enacted	Committee on Insurance	6	30	8	2020-02-21	2020-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/393ce744-8851-48fd-b82c-706e3bbfc908	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1255	af14c51a5ab2963c90ed7f18730b939826e6237f3cb40aaa9b10d590d3c970cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1255 (20192020) — Insurance.

Existing law provides for the powers and duties of the Department of Insurance and the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to deny an application for a production agency license, or revoke an existing license, if the applicant or licenseholder has engaged in specified activities. Existing law requires a hearing to suspend or revoke a license, registration, or certificate of authority that involves allegations of misconduct perpetrated against a person age 65 or over to be held within 90 days after the department's receipt of the notice of defense, unless a continuance is granted. Existing law requires the department to maintain certain records in its office in the City and County of San Francisco.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/18/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/30/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/26/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1255 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB1255 INS. (Rubio) Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB1255 INS. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1255 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Insurance — primary (person)
• Lena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2020-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
• 2020-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2020-03-05 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2020-05-11 Set for hearing May 14.
• 2020-05-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3540.) (May 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-05-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-26 Set for hearing June 1.
• 2020-06-02 Hearing rescheduled due to Capitol closure.
• 2020-06-03 Set for hearing June 9.
• 2020-06-09 June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2020-06-11 Set for hearing June 18.
• 2020-06-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3771.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2020-06-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3817.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2020-06-29 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2020-07-27 July 29 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-07-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5282.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2020-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 184, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/393ce744-8851-48fd-b82c-706e3bbfc908. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).