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Bill	Vehicle insurance: vehicle classification.	Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including automobile liability insurance. Existing law prohibits a motor vehicle, insured pursuant to a policy of automobile liability insurance, from being classified as a common carrier, livery, or for-hire vehicle solely for the reason that the named insured is performing volunteer services for a nonprofit charitable organization or governmental agency consisting of providing social service transportation, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 815	California AB 815 (20252026)	bill	Vehicleinsurance vehicleclassification	enacted	Ortega	6	22	6	2025-02-19	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/5477c8ed-83da-4507-8e19-1d1fe4f8af8c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815	e50f44928967bffd14770e9835db0de7767760acf841571b63ee040b4abb2806	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 815 (20252026) — Vehicle insurance: vehicle classification.

Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including automobile liability insurance. Existing law prohibits a motor vehicle, insured pursuant to a policy of automobile liability insurance, from being classified as a common carrier, livery, or for-hire vehicle solely for the reason that the named insured is performing volunteer services for a nonprofit charitable organization or governmental agency consisting of providing social service transportation, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB815 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 815 Ortega Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 815 Ortega Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ortega — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 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
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1653.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-04 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-02 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
• 2025-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2761.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 713, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5477c8ed-83da-4507-8e19-1d1fe4f8af8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).