SB 508 California Senate · 2019-2020 Regular Session

Residential property insurance.

Summary
Existing law prohibits issuing a residential property insurance policy unless the named insured is provided with a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Disclosure, which sets forth a description of types of coverage, including actual cash value coverage, guaranteed replacement cost coverage, and other types of coverage, as specified. Existing law also provides for a California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights that describes certain information that a customer is entitled to receive from the insurer, including a copy of the insurance policy, an explanation of how the policy limits were established, and specified information in the event that a claim is filed. Existing law requires every California Residential Property Insurance Disclosure to be accompanied by a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights. Existing law excepts from these requirements, a tenant's policy, a policy covering individually owned mobilehomes and their contents, a renter's policy, or a policy insuring individually owned condominium units, when those policies do not provide dwelling structure coverage. This bill would require an insurer, on and after July 1, 2020, prior to issuing or renewing those policies described above for a tenant, renter, or condominium unit, to provide a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights to the named insured. The bill would expressly require an insurer of a policy insuring an individually owned mobilehome that provides dwelling structure coverage to provide the named insured with a copy of the California Residential Property Insurance Disclosure and the California Residential Property Insurance Bill of Rights. The bill would make technical changes to the Bill of Rights.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2019
Committee Review
Jun 2019
Senate Passage
May 2019
Assembly Passage
Jul 2019
Signed into Law
Jul 2019
Introduced Feb 21, 2019 Signed Jul 30, 2019
Floor votes · Senate May 2, 2019 · Assembly Jul 5, 2019

How they voted

35–0
Passed
Total votes 35
May 2, 2019
D Democratic27
27 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican8
8 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
17
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Jul 30, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
legislature
Jul 5, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2549.) Ordered to the Senate.
lower
Jun 26, 2019
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 26).
lower
May 16, 2019
Committee
Referred to Com. on INS.
lower
May 2, 2019
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 925.) Ordered to the Assembly.
upper
Apr 25, 2019
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 850.) (April 24).
upper
Mar 7, 2019
Committee
Referred to Com. on INS.
upper
Feb 21, 2019
Introduced
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Connie M. Leyva
Connie M. Leyva
DDemocratic
CA
20