republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1813.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance."
description: "Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and generally regulates the business of insurance in the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1813"
citation: "California AB 1813 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-03-05"
last_action: "2019-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7bfa004-a363-4e94-81fb-34becf15e046"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1813"
source_hash: "b7c27790b91fb7412e2d13448beebe170188db17e7c66069bd3f0250bdea83ed"
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 1813 (20192020) — Insurance.

Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and generally regulates the business of insurance in the state.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/05/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1813&version=20190AB181399INT)
2. **04/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1813&version=20190AB181398AMD)
3. **06/13/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1813&version=20190AB181397AMD)
4. **08/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1813&version=20190AB181395CHP)
5. **AB1813** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1813)
6. **08/20/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1813&version=20190AB181396ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1813 INS. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By DALY — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1813 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB1813 INS. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** From printer. May be heard in committee April 5.
- **2019-03-21** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1773.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2184.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2750.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 201, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7bfa004-a363-4e94-81fb-34becf15e046`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).