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SENATE BILL 212 (WILLIAMS – 1935)

CHAPTER 145, STATUTES OF 1935

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As enacted Senate Bill 212 was entitled an “act to establish an Insurance Code, thereby consolidating and revising the law relating to insurance principles, practice and business and matters incidental thereto, and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts specified herein.”  (See Exhibit #1c)  Senate Bill 212 was introduced on January 22, 1935 by Senator Dan E. Williams, who also served as chair of the Senate Insurance Committee at that time.  (See Exhibits #1a; #5, page 59; and #6)

 

Senate Bill 212 was heard before the Senate and Assembly Committees on Insurance.  (Exhibits #2 and #6)  There were no amendments proposed for this bill.  (See Exhibits #1 and #2)  Following passage in the Senate and Assembly, Senate Bill 212 was approved by Governor Frank F. Merriam on May 7, 1935 and became Chapter 145 of the Statutes of 1935.  (See Exhibit #1c)

 

Senate Bill 212 was prepared by the California Code Commission for the purpose of consolidating and revising the law relating to insurance, insurers, automobile clubs, and the Insurance Commissioner.  (See Exhibit #4) 

 

According to the California Code Commission:

 

This code embodies a very technical and involved body of law.  At the inception of the work on it a conference group, composed of organizations representing the insurance agents, insurance brokers, reciprocal insurers, mutual insurers, and stock insurers, the Insurance Commissioner and the Attorney General was formed, and the comments and suggestions of this group has [sic] proven to

be invaluable.  Without this the commissioner would not have the assurance which it has in recommending this code for adoption.

(See Exhibit #8, page 11)