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Bill	Commercial property insurance cancellation and nonrenewal.	Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including commercial property insurance. Existing law prohibits an insurer from canceling or refusing to renew a policy of residential property insurance for a property located in a ZIP Code within or adjacent to the fire perimeter for one year after the declaration of a state of emergency, if the cancellation or nonrenewal is based solely on the fact that the insured structure is located in an area in which a wildfire has occurred, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 547	California SB 547 (20252026)	bill	Commercialpropertyinsurancecancellationandnonrenewal	enacted	Pérez	6	23	6	2025-02-20	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/38fbc960-c48a-458a-bbe2-be2269d7adbe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB547	1ca063610bddec22876bbc92cfae3e30768c141d3580fddd8cca5c958ee69f9a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 547 (20252026) — Commercial property insurance cancellation and nonrenewal.

Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including commercial property insurance. Existing law prohibits an insurer from canceling or refusing to renew a policy of residential property insurance for a property located in a ZIP Code within or adjacent to the fire perimeter for one year after the declaration of a state of emergency, if the cancellation or nonrenewal is based solely on the fact that the insured structure is located in an area in which a wildfire has occurred, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB547 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB547 Pérez et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB547 Pérez et al. Concurrence — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 547 Pérez Senate Third Reading By Calderon — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pérez — primary (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
• Cortese — principal coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
• Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
• Rubio — author (person)
• Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2025-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 869.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-25 Set for hearing May 5.
• 2025-05-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1452.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-09 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2025-07-10 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
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-13 Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
• 2025-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 3442.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3052.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 544, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/38fbc960-c48a-458a-bbe2-be2269d7adbe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).