republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-577.md

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Bill	Insurance.	(1) Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including life insurance and annuities. Existing law, beginning on January 1, 2025, requires a life agent, licensed on or after January 1, 2024, engaging in the sale of specified life insurance policies on or after January 1, 2025, to complete specified hours of life insurance training courses before soliciting consumers to sell these life insurance policies. Existing law requires a life agent, engaging in the sale of variable life insurance policies, to complete specified hours of training before renewing their license and applies these training provisions to licenses that are issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 577	California SB 577 (20232024)	bill	Insurance	enacted	Hurtado	7	36	10	2023-02-15	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/869a9e05-bc81-44fd-a9b4-f45e15b29766	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB577	3694b8547542a88e516ec91d8c0edf73d882ff98e5ab7ace276b718735be4ee2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 577 (20232024) — Insurance.

(1) Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including life insurance and annuities. Existing law, beginning on January 1, 2025, requires a life agent, licensed on or after January 1, 2024, engaging in the sale of specified life insurance policies on or after January 1, 2025, to complete specified hours of life insurance training courses before soliciting consumers to sell these life insurance policies. Existing law requires a life agent, engaging in the sale of variable life insurance policies, to complete specified hours of training before renewing their license and applies these training provisions to licenses that are issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/13/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB577 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB577 Hurtado et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 577 Hurtado Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hurtado — primary (person)
• Alvarado-Gil — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Niello — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-03-14 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2023-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 546.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1175.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1302.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on E.M. referral-committee
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-06 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
• 2024-06-11 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2024-06-12 From inactive file.
• 2024-06-12 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-06-13 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-13 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-06-13 Re-referred to Com. on INS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6320.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5654.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 444, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/869a9e05-bc81-44fd-a9b4-f45e15b29766. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).