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CA SB 429

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Wildfire Safety and Risk Mitigation Program.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law creates the Department of Insurance and prescribes the department's powers and duties. Existing law generally regulates the business of insurance in the state, including the underwriting and ongoing monitoring of insured risks. Existing law generally requires an insurer or insurance producer to have underwriting guidelines that establish the criteria and process under which an insurer makes its decision to provide or to deny coverage. Existing law requires an admitted insurer with written California premiums totaling $10,000,000 or more, to submit a report, as specified, to the commissioner with specified fire risk information on its residential property policies. Existing law requires the commissioner to post on the department's internet website a report on wildfire risk compiled from data collected from specified insurers. This bill, upon appropriation for these purposes, would establish the Wildfire Safety and Risk Mitigation Program to fund the development, demonstration, and deployment of a public wildfire catastrophe model, as defined, and to provide grant funding to one or more universities for eligible projects with specified criteria for the purpose of creating a research and educational center responsible for developing, demonstrating, and deploying a public wildfire catastrophe model that provides significant wildfire safety benefits to California communities and assists alignment of federal, state, and local wildfire risk reduction efforts. The bill would create the Wildfire Safety and Risk Mitigation Account within the Insurance Fund for these purposes. The bill, also upon appropriation for these purposes, would require the department to create a framework and multiyear plan with available data for the development, demonstration, and deployment of a public wildfire catastrophe model that includes specified information and to publish the plan on the department's internet website. The bill would require the department to provide recommendations to the Senate Committee on Insurance, Assembly Committee on Insurance, Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, Budget Committees, and the Governor for future budget allocations related to these provisions before September 1, 2026.

Introduced
2025-02-18
Status date
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Latest action
2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 541, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Corteseauthor
  • Beckercoauthor
  • Richardsoncoauthor
  • Rubiocoauthor
  • Sterncoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-18

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-19

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.

  3. 2025-02-26

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-26

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  5. 2025-04-02

    Re-referred to Com. on INS.

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  6. 2025-04-04

    Set for hearing April 23.

  7. 2025-04-24

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 869.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  8. 2025-04-25

    Set for hearing May 5.

  9. 2025-05-05

    May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  10. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  11. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1200.) (May 23).

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  12. 2025-05-23

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  13. 2025-05-27

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  14. 2025-05-29

    From special consent calendar on motion of Senator Cortese.

  15. 2025-05-29

    Ordered to third reading.

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  16. 2025-06-03

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1456.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  17. 2025-06-04

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  18. 2025-06-09

    Referred to Coms. on INS. and E.M.

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  19. 2025-07-02

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS.

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  20. 2025-07-09

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.M. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on E.M.

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  21. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14).

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  22. 2025-07-17

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  23. 2025-08-20

    August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  24. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  25. 2025-09-02

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  26. 2025-09-03

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  27. 2025-09-13

    Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)

  28. 2025-09-13

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3462.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  29. 2025-09-13

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  30. 2025-09-13

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3061.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  31. 2025-09-23

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  32. 2025-10-10

    Approved by the Governor.

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  33. 2025-10-10

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 541, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/18/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-18Compare
  • 03/26/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-26Compare
  • 07/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-02Compare
  • 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-17Compare
  • 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-02Compare
  • 09/17/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-17Compare
  • 10/10/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-10Compare
  • SB429Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-23 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Becker: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Niello: yes

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-05-05 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wahab: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Dahle: other

  • 3rd Reading

    2025-06-03 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Valladares: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Emergency Management]

    2025-07-09 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (17)
    • Ortega: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Valencia: other
    • Krell: other

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Arambula: yes

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-08-29 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Sanchez: other
    • Ta: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Dixon: other

  • Unfinished Business SB429 Cortese et al. Concurrence

    2025-09-13 · pass · 34-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • McGuire: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Dahle: other
    • Weber Pierson: other
    • Choi: other
    • Valladares: other
    • Laird: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other

  • SB 429 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Alvarez

    2025-09-13 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • McKinnor: other

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