republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-508.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential property insurance."
description: "Existing law prohibits issuing a residential property insurance policy unless the named insured is provided with a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Disclosure, which sets forth a description of types of coverage, including actual cash value coverage, guaranteed replacement cost coverage, and other types of coverage, as specified. Existing law also provides for a California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights that describes certain information that a customer is entitled to receive from the insurer, including a copy of the insurance policy, an explanation of how the policy limits were established, and specified information in the event that a claim is filed. Existing law requires every California Residential Property Insurance Disclosure to be accompanied by a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights. Existing law excepts from these requirements, a tenant's policy, a policy covering individually owned mobilehomes and their contents, a renter's policy, or a policy insuring individually owned condominium units, when those policies do not provide dwelling structure coverage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 508"
citation: "California SB 508 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Residential property insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leyva"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a043b47-c226-4eef-9aad-5bce81250202"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB508"
source_hash: "0fd5f451ed737678d7c2fcec79b28a8d3cd0e32b9dd19c7a505b8875fd90bcaf"
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 SB 508 (20192020) — Residential property insurance.

Existing law prohibits issuing a residential property insurance policy unless the named insured is provided with a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Disclosure, which sets forth a description of types of coverage, including actual cash value coverage, guaranteed replacement cost coverage, and other types of coverage, as specified. Existing law also provides for a California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights that describes certain information that a customer is entitled to receive from the insurer, including a copy of the insurance policy, an explanation of how the policy limits were established, and specified information in the event that a claim is filed. Existing law requires every California Residential Property Insurance Disclosure to be accompanied by a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights. Existing law excepts from these requirements, a tenant's policy, a policy covering individually owned mobilehomes and their contents, a renter's policy, or a policy insuring individually owned condominium units, when those policies do not provide dwelling structure coverage.

## 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=201920200SB508&version=20190SB50899INT)
2. **04/09/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB508&version=20190SB50898AMD)
3. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB508&version=20190SB50896CHP)
4. **SB508** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB508)
5. **07/08/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB508&version=20190SB50897ENR)

## Votes

- SB 508 Leyva Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar SB508 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leyva — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2019-04-09** 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`
- **2019-04-25** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 850.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-29** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 925.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2549.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-05** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 151, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a043b47-c226-4eef-9aad-5bce81250202`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).