Bill Commons

CA SB 547

enacted

Commercial property insurance cancellation and nonrenewal.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did CA SB 547 pass?

Yes. CA SB 547 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-10): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 544, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 547 about?

Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including commercial property insurance. Existing law prohibits an insurer from canceling or refusing to renew a policy of residential property insurance for a property located in a ZIP Code within or adjacent to the fire perimeter for one year after the declaration of a state of emergency, if the cancellation or nonrenewal is based solely on the fact that the insured structure is located in an area in which a wildfire has occurred, except as specified. This bill would extend that prohibition against cancellation or nonrenewal and its exceptions to a policy of commercial property insurance, except as specified.

Who sponsors CA SB 547?

Pérez is the primary sponsor of CA SB 547, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including commercial property insurance. Existing law prohibits an insurer from canceling or refusing to renew a policy of residential property insurance for a property located in a ZIP Code within or adjacent to the fire perimeter for one year after the declaration of a state of emergency, if the cancellation or nonrenewal is based solely on the fact that the insured structure is located in an area in which a wildfire has occurred, except as specified. This bill would extend that prohibition against cancellation or nonrenewal and its exceptions to a policy of commercial property insurance, except as specified.

Introduced
2025-02-20
Latest action
2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 544, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Pérezauthor
  • Rubioauthor
  • Cervantesprincipal coauthor
  • Corteseprincipal coauthor
  • Gonzalezprincipal coauthor
  • Reyesprincipal coauthor
  • Smallwood-Cuevasprincipal coauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-10-10

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 544, Statutes of 2025.

    became-law

  2. 2025-10-10

    Approved by the Governor.

    executive-signature

  3. 2025-09-23

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

    executive-receipt

  4. 2025-09-13

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  5. 2025-09-13

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3052.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  6. 2025-09-13

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 3442.) Ordered to the Senate.

    passage,reading-1,reading-3

  7. 2025-09-13

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

  8. 2025-08-21

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1,reading-2,reading-3

  9. 2025-08-20

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  10. 2025-07-17

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

    amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee

  11. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 16).

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  12. 2025-07-10

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

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee

  13. 2025-06-09

    Referred to Com. on INS.

    referral-committee

  14. 2025-06-04

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

    reading-1

  15. 2025-06-03

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1452.) Ordered to the Assembly.

    passage,reading-1,reading-3

  16. 2025-05-06

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1,reading-2,reading-3

  17. 2025-05-05

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

    committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2

  18. 2025-04-25

    Set for hearing May 5.

  19. 2025-04-24

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 869.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  20. 2025-04-04

    Set for hearing April 23.

  21. 2025-03-05

    Referred to Com. on INS.

    referral-committee

  22. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

  23. 2025-02-20

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

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

Versions

  • 02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
  • 07/10/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-10Compare
  • 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-17Compare
  • 09/18/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-18Compare
  • 10/10/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-10Compare
  • SB547Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-23 · pass · 6-0

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

  • 3rd Reading SB547 Pérez et al.

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

    2025-07-16 · pass · 17-0

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

  • Do pass.

    2025-08-20 · pass · 15-0

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

  • Unfinished Business SB547 Pérez et al. Concurrence

    2025-09-13 · pass · 36-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • McGuire: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Weber Pierson: 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
    • Laird: 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
    • Choi: other
    • Valladares: other
    • Dahle: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other

  • SB 547 Pérez Senate Third Reading By Calderon

    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

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB547

Attribution

Data from openstates_api_sync, retrieved 2026-10-20T10:55:56.584774Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=CA&identifier=SB 547. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.
  • Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.