(1) Existing law creates the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) and requires all insurers admitted to transact specified insurance lines in this state to become members. Under existing law, CIGA pays and discharges covered claims, which are the obligations of an insolvent insurer that meet specified requirements. Existing law requires CIGA to collect premium payments from its member insurers sufficient to discharge its obligations. Existing law requires CIGA to allocate its claim payments and costs to the categories of workers' compensation claims, homeowners' and automobile claims, and other claims.
California AB 2154 (20212022) — California Insurance Guarantee Association.
(1) Existing law creates the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) and requires all insurers admitted to transact specified insurance lines in this state to become members. Under existing law, CIGA pays and discharges covered claims, which are the obligations of an insolvent insurer that meet specified requirements. Existing law requires CIGA to collect premium payments from its member insurers sufficient to discharge its obligations. Existing law requires CIGA to allocate its claim payments and costs to the categories of workers' compensation claims, homeowners' and automobile claims, and other claims.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 2154 Cooley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Cooley — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-02-15 Introduced. To print. introduction
2022-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
2022-02-24 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2022-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2022-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2022-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 4650.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2022-05-25 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2022-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5141.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2022-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 408, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d7cc43e-4553-4070-b7f8-2adeb8db6e62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).