California 2009-2010, 8th Special Session Status: Passed Senate

SB 13 — Emergency services: property insurance surcharge.

Last action — From Assembly without further action.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2009-2010, 8th Special Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

(1) Existing law establishes the California Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for certain manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would establish the Local Government Mutual Aid Enhancement Program in the agency, and would require funds, as specified, deposited in the Emergency Response Fund, to be allocated to the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the Secretary of California Emergency Management to allocate funds to specified entities, for the purpose of enhancing or sustaining fire and rescue disaster mutual aid capacity to combat the effect of all hazard disasters, as provided. This bill would also require the secretary, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a strategy, as provided, for the enhancement of mutual aid, and would require each fire and rescue operational area to submit a 3-year strategy for the enhancement of fire and rescue disaster mutual aid, as specified, to the secretary. (2) Existing law provides that the Insurance Commissioner, in cooperation with insurers, the Office of Emergency Services, and other emergency service agencies, shall establish procedures for the coordination of efforts between insurers and their representatives and those of emergency response agencies. This bill would create the Emergency Response Fund in the State Treasury. Insureds would be required to pay a special purpose surcharge on commercial and residential fire and multiperil insurance policies, including policies with combined property and liability coverage, issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2010, as specified. Funds from this surcharge would be available for appropriation by the Legislature to fund emergency activities, as defined, of the California Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and the Military Department. Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year would be retained and carried forward to the next fiscal year. This bill would require insurers collecting the surcharge to make a specified disclosure on the policy declarations page, billing statement, or a separate document accompanying the declarations page or billing statement. This bill would also require the Department of Insurance, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and other state agencies and departments to cooperate and provide information to the California Emergency Management Agency as necessary to implement this act. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. From Assembly without further action.

  2. Read third time. Amended. To third reading.

  3. Read second time. To third reading.

  4. Permission granted to take up without reference to committee or file.

  5. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 0. Page 31.) To Assembly.

  7. Read second time. To third reading.

  8. Placed on second reading file.

  9. Withdrawn from committee.

  10. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS.

Sponsors

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 1 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

SB 13 B.& F. R. Senate Third Reading Amend By EVANS Set #1 Eighth Extraordinary Session

Passed 52 Yea · 23 Nay · 16 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4622015
Democratic 5000
Republican 1101
Total 5223016
% of votes cast 57%25%0%18%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Emmerson — Nay
Coto — Yea
Eng — Yea
Evans — Yea
Davis — Yea
DeVore — Not Voting
Fuentes — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Hall — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Charles — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Beall — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Yamada — Not Voting
Bonnie — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Carter — Not Voting
Tom — Nay
Berryhill — Nay
Gaines — Nay
Conway — Not Voting
Bill — Not Voting
Berryhill — Not Voting
Fuller — Nay
Furutani — Yea
Garrick — Nay
Fletcher — Not Voting
V. — Not Voting
Manuel — Not Voting
Perez — Not Voting
Saldana — Not Voting
Audra — Not Voting
Cook — Nay
Gilmore — Nay
Hagman — Nay
Harkey — Nay
Hayashi — Yea
Anderson — Nay
Bass — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huber — Yea
Jeffries — Nay
Knight — Nay
Logue — Nay
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Nay
Nava — Yea
Nestande — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Norby — Nay
Silva — Nay
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Villines — Not Voting
Adams — Not Voting
Ammiano — Yea
Blakeslee — Nay
Block — Not Voting
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Ma — Yea
Monning — Yea
Ruskin — Yea
Smyth — Nay
Torlakson — Yea
Tran — Nay
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Lowenthal, Josh Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Nay
Strickland, Tony Republican Not Voting

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SENATE 3RD READING SB13 COMMITTEE ON B. & F.R. (DUCHENY)

Passed 22 Yea · 0 Nay · 18 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 190017
Republican 0001
Democratic 3000
Total 220018
% of votes cast 55%0%0%45%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Cox — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Not Voting
Florez — Not Voting
Yee — Yea
Ashburn — Not Voting
Cogdill — Not Voting
Corbett — Not Voting
Correa — Not Voting
Dutton — Not Voting
Harman — Not Voting
Hollingsworth — Not Voting
Huff — Not Voting
Oropeza — Not Voting
Walters — Not Voting
Wright — Yea
Wyland — Not Voting
Runner — Not Voting
Cedillo — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Leno — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Liu — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Price — Yea
Romero — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Wiggins — Yea
Aanestad — Not Voting
Alquist — Yea
Maldonado — Not Voting
Steinberg — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Lowenthal, Josh Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Not Voting

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 13 do?
(1) Existing law establishes the California Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for certain manmade disasters and emergencies, including responsibility for activities necessary to prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of emergencies and disasters to people and property. This bill would establish the Local Government Mutual Aid Enhancement Program in the agency, and would require funds, as specified, deposited in the Emergency Response Fund, to be allocated to the program upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would require the Secretary of California Emergency Management to allocate funds to specified entities, for the purpose of enhancing or sustaining fire and rescue disaster mutual aid capacity to combat the effect of all hazard disasters, as provided. This bill would also require the secretary, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a strategy, as provided, for the enhancement of mutual aid, and would require each fire and rescue operational area to submit a 3-year strategy for the enhancement of fire and rescue disaster mutual aid, as specified, to the secretary. (2) Existing law provides that the Insurance Commissioner, in cooperation with insurers, the Office of Emergency Services, and other emergency service agencies, shall establish procedures for the coordination of efforts between insurers and their representatives and those of emergency response agencies. This bill would create the Emergency Response Fund in the State Treasury. Insureds would be required to pay a special purpose surcharge on commercial and residential fire and multiperil insurance policies, including policies with combined property and liability coverage, issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2010, as specified. Funds from this surcharge would be available for appropriation by the Legislature to fund emergency activities, as defined, of the California Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and the Military Department. Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year would be retained and carried forward to the next fiscal year. This bill would require insurers collecting the surcharge to make a specified disclosure on the policy declarations page, billing statement, or a separate document accompanying the declarations page or billing statement. This bill would also require the Department of Insurance, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and other state agencies and departments to cooperate and provide information to the California Emergency Management Agency as necessary to implement this act. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors SB 13?
SB 13 is sponsored by Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.
What is the current status of SB 13?
This bill died with 2009-2010, 8th Special Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 13?
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