Existing law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, applies to electronic records and electronic signatures of a transaction, and generally prohibits a record or signature from being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form or a contract being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation. Existing law exempts certain transactions from that act, including insurance application forms.
California SB 1179 (20212022) — Electronic transactions: insurance.
Existing law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, applies to electronic records and electronic signatures of a transaction, and generally prohibits a record or signature from being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form or a contract being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation. Existing law exempts certain transactions from that act, including insurance application forms.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1179 Glazer Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar SB1179 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Glazer — primary (person)
Borgeas — coauthor (person)
Hurtado — coauthor (person)
Jones — coauthor (person)
Nielsen — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2022-02-17 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
2022-02-18 From printer.
2022-03-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2022-03-17 Set for hearing April 5.
2022-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-04-06 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3326.) (April 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2022-04-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3476.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-04-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2022-05-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2022-06-01 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2022-06-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 5305.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-06-09 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2022-06-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
2022-06-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-06-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 39, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57aab1d4-b44a-46d3-9bbd-e33144acba40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).