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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Electronic transactions: insurance."
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description: "Existing law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, applies to electronic records and electronic signatures of a transaction, and generally prohibits a record or signature from being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form or a contract being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation. Existing law exempts certain transactions from that act, including insurance application forms."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "SB 1179"
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citation: "California SB 1179 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Electronic transactions: insurance."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Glazer"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2022-02-17"
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last_action: "2022-06-27"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57aab1d4-b44a-46d3-9bbd-e33144acba40"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1179"
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source_hash: "7db4bab1975632e516cd6d08eb4a80df8d851fd56592693ee4dce6c2ec76261b"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 1179 (20212022) — Electronic transactions: insurance.
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Existing law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, applies to electronic records and electronic signatures of a transaction, and generally prohibits a record or signature from being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form or a contract being denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation. Existing law exempts certain transactions from that act, including insurance application forms.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/17/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1179&version=20210SB117999INT)
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2. **03/22/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1179&version=20210SB117998AMD)
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3. **06/21/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1179&version=20210SB117996CHP)
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4. **SB1179** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1179)
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5. **06/10/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1179&version=20210SB117997ENR)
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## Votes
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- SB 1179 Glazer Consent Calendar Second Day — **69–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar SB1179 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Glazer — primary (person)
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- Borgeas — coauthor (person)
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- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
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- Jones — coauthor (person)
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- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2022-02-17** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
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- **2022-02-18** From printer.
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- **2022-03-02** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-17** Set for hearing April 5.
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- **2022-03-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-06** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3326.) (April 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-04-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3476.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-04-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2022-05-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-06-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 5305.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-06-09** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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- **2022-06-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
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- **2022-06-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 39, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57aab1d4-b44a-46d3-9bbd-e33144acba40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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