California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Insurance Committee Jul 16th, 2025

Assembly Insurance Committee

Event Log

  • SB847 — SB 847 was identified as a consent calendar bill and then moved as item eight on the consent calendar with a do pass recommendation and referral to Appropriations.
  • SB847 — Included on the consent calendar.
  • Lisa Calderon — During roll call, Lisa Calderon is recorded as present and then votes aye.
  • Lisa Calderon — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Lisa Calderon — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Lisa Calderon — Votes aye on SB 616.
  • Lisa Calderon — The speaker refers to the Chair when discussing acceptance of committee amendments.
  • Lisa Calderon — The Chair brings the bill back to the committee and notes a motion and second are already on the floor.
  • Lisa Calderon — Roll call vote recorded as aye.
  • Lisa Calderon — The Chair appears to be speaking informally while seating the Senator.
  • Lisa Calderon — During the roll call, the Chair asked to call the roll and Lisa Calderon responded with 'Aye.'
  • Dawn Addis — Dawn Addis is mentioned during the roll call as the meeting records attendance.
  • Dawn Addis — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Dawn Addis — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Dawn Addis — Dawn Addis cast a series of aye votes during the roll call, including the consent calendar items and SB 487, SB 547, and SB 616.
  • David Alvarez — David Alvarez is mentioned twice during roll call in a brief procedural context.
  • David Alvarez — Assemblyman Alvarez questioned the witness about the study cited in the analysis, asking how the percentage figures were derived, who conducted the study, and whether the underlying data is available. He then followed up on whether the percentages were based on historical trends and how the bill’s amendments, which raise the limits, would change the percentage of incidents covered compared with the prior 50,000/100,000 limits.
  • David Alvarez — The speaker appreciated questions from Senator Alvarez and encouraged companies to provide data.
  • David Alvarez — Referenced as having asked earlier about how savings benefit drivers.
  • David Alvarez — Recorded as voting aye.
  • David Alvarez — Recorded as voting aye.
  • David Alvarez — Votes aye on SB 616.
  • David Alvarez — Roll call vote recorded as aye.
  • David Alvarez — David Alvarez is recorded in the vote sequence, including an aye vote; the later garbled mention appears to be another reference to his vote in the same voting context.
  • Marc Berman — During roll call, Marc Berman is first noted as present, then shortly afterward his name is called again with uncertainty about his status, continuing the same attendance check.
  • Marc Berman — The speaker references Assembly Member Berman in discussing how the question revealed the complexity of policy interactions.
  • Marc Berman — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Marc Berman — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Marc Berman — Marc Berman is first called during roll call on SB 616, and shortly afterward the discussion shifts to thanking Senators Perez and Rubio for their partnership and co-authorship on the bill.
  • Marc Berman — The speaker responds to Assembly Member Harabedian’s defense of his bill, praises the bill and references testimony about insurance costs, says they will support the bill out of committee, and closes by thanking Harabedian while noting that the cost-allocation question remains unresolved.
  • Marc Berman — Marc Berman was recorded multiple times during a roll-call vote sequence, consistently voting aye on several Senate bills, including SB 487, SB 547, and SB 616.
  • Stan Ellis — During roll call, Stan Ellis is noted as present and then records an aye vote.
  • Stan Ellis — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Stan Ellis — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Stan Ellis — Votes no on SB 616.
  • Mike Gipson — During roll call, Mike Gipson is recorded as present and then votes aye.
  • Mike Gipson — Recorded as voting aye.
  • Mike Gipson — Mike Gipson was recorded as voting aye.
  • Mike Gipson — Roll call vote recorded as aye.
  • Mike Gipson — Voted aye.
  • John Harabedian — Roll call continues; he is present.
  • John Harabedian — Votes aye.
  • John Harabedian — Referenced as having just alluded to the multiple insurance coverages.
  • John Harabedian — Recorded as voting aye.
  • John Harabedian — Recorded as voting aye.
  • John Harabedian — Votes aye on SB 616.
  • John Harabedian — The speaker says they will pass the bill to the lead witness and support.
  • John Harabedian — Roll call vote recorded as aye.
  • John Harabedian — John Harabedian was recorded as voting aye in the roll call.
  • Maggy Krell — Roll call continues; she is present.