CA AB 1
enactedResidential property insurance: wildfire risk.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 1 pass?
Yes. CA AB 1 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-09. Latest recorded action (2025-10-09): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 472, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 1 about?
Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including property and fire insurance. Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and prescribes the department's powers and duties. Existing department regulations prohibit an insurer from using a rating plan that does not take into account and reflect specified wildfire risk mitigation, including property-level building hardening measures. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2030, and every 5 years thereafter, to consider whether or not to update its regulations to include additional building hardening measures for property-level mitigation efforts and communitywide wildfire mitigation programs. As part of this consideration, the bill would require the department to consult with specified agencies to identify additional building hardening measures to consider, as well as to develop and implement a public participation process during the evaluation.
Who sponsors CA AB 1?
Connolly is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1, joined by 15 cosponsors.
Description
Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including property and fire insurance. Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and prescribes the department's powers and duties. Existing department regulations prohibit an insurer from using a rating plan that does not take into account and reflect specified wildfire risk mitigation, including property-level building hardening measures. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2030, and every 5 years thereafter, to consider whether or not to update its regulations to include additional building hardening measures for property-level mitigation efforts and communitywide wildfire mitigation programs. As part of this consideration, the bill would require the department to consult with specified agencies to identify additional building hardening measures to consider, as well as to develop and implement a public participation process during the evaluation.
- Introduced
- —
- Latest action
- 2025-10-09 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 472, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- 2026-07-09T05:42:01.587426Z
Subjects
Sponsors
- Connollyauthor
- Addiscoauthor
- Alvarezcoauthor
- Ávila Faríascoauthor
- Calderoncoauthor
- Gipsoncoauthor
- Mark Gonzálezcoauthor
- Hadwickcoauthor
- Harabediancoauthor
- Kalracoauthor
- Krellcoauthor
- Petrie-Norriscoauthor
- Rivascoauthor
- Rogerscoauthor
- Schiavocoauthor
- Allencoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2024-12-02
Read first time. To print.
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2024-12-03
From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
2025-02-03
Referred to Com. on INS.
referral-committee
2025-04-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-02
Coauthors revised.
2025-04-23
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1815.)
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2025-06-03
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Com. on INS.
referral-committee
2025-06-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-09
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-08-29
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-09-02
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-03
From special consent calendar.
2025-09-03
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-11
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2886.).
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2025-09-12
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-09-23
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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2025-10-09
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-09
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 472, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-02 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Addis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Krell: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Chen: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ellis: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: other
AB 1 Connolly Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ward: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bonta: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Lee: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Papan: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Davies: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Berman: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Soria: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ta: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Flora: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Addis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bains: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-25 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Niello: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Becker: yes
- Jones: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Rubio: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
Do pass
2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
3rd Reading AB1 Connolly et al. By Allen
2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Umberg: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Reyes: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Allen: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Becker: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wahab: yes
Related bills
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