republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2395.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association."
description: "Existing law, the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association Act, protects specified persons against failure in the performance of contractual obligations because of the impairment or insolvency of a member insurer that issued a life or health insurance policy or specified annuity contract. Existing law provides that the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association may, in its discretion and subject to specified limitations, guarantee, assume, or reinsure the policies of an impaired insurer, as defined. Existing law authorizes the association's board of directors to request that the Insurance Commissioner order an examination of a member insurer that may be impaired or insolvent, and requires the commissioner to begin the examination within 30 days of a request."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2395"
citation: "California AB 2395 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/083f739b-ecde-4d16-a43e-7e43dc38d5d6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2395"
source_hash: "2d9afe8b09d8fb8ab33b11a12bc988749d104e7acd40339af1268e2c77117527"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2395 (20172018) — California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association.

Existing law, the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association Act, protects specified persons against failure in the performance of contractual obligations because of the impairment or insolvency of a member insurer that issued a life or health insurance policy or specified annuity contract. Existing law provides that the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association may, in its discretion and subject to specified limitations, guarantee, assume, or reinsure the policies of an impaired insurer, as defined. Existing law authorizes the association's board of directors to request that the Insurance Commissioner order an examination of a member insurer that may be impaired or insolvent, and requires the commissioner to begin the examination within 30 days of a request.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2395&version=20170AB239599INT)
2. **04/11/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2395&version=20170AB239598AMD)
3. **07/03/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2395&version=20170AB239597AMD)
4. **09/21/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2395&version=20170AB239595CHP)
5. **AB2395** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2395)
6. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2395&version=20170AB239596ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2395 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2395 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2395 Calderon By Roth — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-11** 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-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5421.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2018-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5939.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2018-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 7002.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 651, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/083f739b-ecde-4d16-a43e-7e43dc38d5d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).