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Bill 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. us/states/ca California Legislature 20252026 AB 943 California AB 943 (20252026)
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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.

  1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 03/18/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  3. 04/03/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  4. 06/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  5. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  6. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  7. AB943 (committee substitute) — source
  8. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 170 (pass) · lower
  • 3rd Reading AB943 Michelle Rodriguez By Hurtado — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass. — 140 (pass) · lower
  • 3rd Reading AB943 Michelle Rodriguez By Hurtado Reconsider — 390 (pass) · upper
  • 3rd Reading AB943 Michelle Rodriguez By Hurtado — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 70 (pass) · upper
  • AB 943 Michelle Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 760 (pass) · lower
  • AB 943 Michelle Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — 740 (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
  • 2025-09-03 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2455.)
  • 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2887.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  • 2025-09-13 Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
  • 2025-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3455.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  • 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 566, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03d0b608-5cef-4373-9b9b-fe941a4aaada. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).