Existing law requires the Department of Insurance to require all new applicants for license as a property broker-agent, casualty broker-agent, limited lines automobile insurance agent, personal lines broker-agent, life agent, or accident and health or sickness agent to meet specified prelicensing education standards that include 20 hours of prelicensing study as a prerequisite to qualification for a license. Existing law also requires 12 hours of study on ethics in addition to the 20 hours of prelicensing study. Existing law requires the curriculum for satisfying this requirement to be approved by the curriculum board and submitted to the Insurance Commissioner for final approval. Existing law requires the commissioner to charge a specified fee for filing an application for certification, and to renew certification, of the prelicensing education course mentioned above.
California AB 943 (20252026) — Insurance agents: prelicensing education.
Existing law requires the Department of Insurance to require all new applicants for license as a property broker-agent, casualty broker-agent, limited lines automobile insurance agent, personal lines broker-agent, life agent, or accident and health or sickness agent to meet specified prelicensing education standards that include 20 hours of prelicensing study as a prerequisite to qualification for a license. Existing law also requires 12 hours of study on ethics in addition to the 20 hours of prelicensing study. Existing law requires the curriculum for satisfying this requirement to be approved by the curriculum board and submitted to the Insurance Commissioner for final approval. Existing law requires the commissioner to charge a specified fee for filing an application for certification, and to renew certification, of the prelicensing education course mentioned above.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 943 Michelle Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
AB 943 Michelle Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Michelle Rodriguez — 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.
2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2025-03-18 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
2025-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2025-04-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2025-04-03 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2025-04-23 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1512.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2025-05-21 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
2025-06-03 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
2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-07-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2447.). passage, reading-1, reading-3