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Bill	Insurance: unclaimed life insurance.	Existing law generally regulates the business of insurance in the state, including life insurance. Existing law provides for the escheat to the state of unclaimed personal property, including funds owed under a life insurance policy or annuity contract if the funds are unclaimed and unpaid for more than 3 years after the funds became payable.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 740	California SB 740 (20192020)	bill	Insurance: unclaimed life insurance.	enacted	Mitchell	7	28	6	2019-02-22	2019-09-12	openstates	ocd-bill/47c0278e-2ebd-4071-ad61-82b5dff21804	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB740	1aa429838f846c5de82744697f41880b891084edcfa2fd392c44b280dfcde016	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 740 (20192020) — Insurance: unclaimed life insurance.

Existing law generally regulates the business of insurance in the state, including life insurance. Existing law provides for the escheat to the state of unclaimed personal property, including funds owed under a life insurance policy or annuity contract if the funds are unclaimed and unpaid for more than 3 years after the funds became payable.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/02/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB740 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB740 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 740 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By Mayes — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mitchell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 850.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1361.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-07-02 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
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2810.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-08-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2328.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2019-09-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 286, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47c0278e-2ebd-4071-ad61-82b5dff21804. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).