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Votes at a glance: Assembly Insurance Committee actions on five bills and three consent items
Summary
The committee advanced five debated bills to Appropriations (AB 8 15; AB 10 48; AB 12 36; AB 13 29; AB 13 36) and passed a consent package including AB 11 25, AB 12 93 and AB 13 98; recorded tallies in the hearing log varied by item.
The Assembly Committee on Insurance considered eight bills and advanced several to the Committee on Appropriations. The following lists actions recorded in the committee transcript and hearing log. Where the transcript did not include full details about a bill, that field is marked "not specified." All items below were described on the record and then sent to Appropriations for further review unless noted.
Votes and outcomes (as recorded in the hearing log in the transcript):
- AB 8 15 (Ortega) — Clarify that social service workers who transport clients are not commercial/for‑hire drivers: passed to Appropriations; hearing log records the bill as out 17 to 0.
- AB 10 48 (Chen) — Allow Independent Bill Review for disputed unauthorized payment reductions to medical providers: passed to Appropriations; hearing log records the bill as out 17 to 0.
- AB 12 36 (Rodriguez) — Create Climate and Sustainability Insurance and Risk Reduction Grant Program at the Department of Insurance: passed to Appropriations; hearing log records the bill as out 17 to 0.
- AB 13 29 (Ortega) — Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund reforms: passed to Appropriations; hearing log records the bill as out 14 to 0.
- AB 13 36 (Addis) — Farmworker Heat Illness Prevention Act (rebuttable presumption tied to Cal/OSHA noncompliance): passed to Appropriations; hearing log records the bill as out 12 to 4.
Consent calendar items (moved as a group; transcript lists them as part of the consent calendar and records the consent calendar as passed):
- AB 11 25 (Nguyen) — item included on consent calendar; details not specified in the transcript.
- AB 12 93 (Wallace) — item included on consent calendar; details not specified in the transcript.
- AB 13 98 (Valencia) — item included on consent calendar; details not specified in the transcript.
Several bills were the subject of negotiated conversations on technical amendments and opponents said they planned to continue working with authors after committee. Committee chairs and members at times held items open for amendment and left the Appropriations roll open for additional votes.
