republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-815.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle insurance: vehicle classification."
description: "Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including automobile liability insurance. Existing law prohibits a motor vehicle, insured pursuant to a policy of automobile liability insurance, from being classified as a common carrier, livery, or for-hire vehicle solely for the reason that the named insured is performing volunteer services for a nonprofit charitable organization or governmental agency consisting of providing social service transportation, as defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 815"
citation: "California AB 815 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicleinsurance", "vehicleclassification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ortega"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5477c8ed-83da-4507-8e19-1d1fe4f8af8c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815"
source_hash: "e50f44928967bffd14770e9835db0de7767760acf841571b63ee040b4abb2806"
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 815 (20252026) — Vehicle insurance: vehicle classification.

Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including automobile liability insurance. Existing law prohibits a motor vehicle, insured pursuant to a policy of automobile liability insurance, from being classified as a common carrier, livery, or for-hire vehicle solely for the reason that the named insured is performing volunteer services for a nonprofit charitable organization or governmental agency consisting of providing social service transportation, as defined.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815&version=20250AB81599INT)
2. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815&version=20250AB81598AMD)
3. **07/02/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815&version=20250AB81597AMD)
4. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815&version=20250AB81595CHP)
5. **AB815** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815)
6. **09/02/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB815&version=20250AB81596ENR)

## Votes

- AB 815 Ortega Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 815 Ortega Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ortega — 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.
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-21** 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`
- **2025-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1653.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-04** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-07-02** 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`
- **2025-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2761.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 713, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5477c8ed-83da-4507-8e19-1d1fe4f8af8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).