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SENATE BILL 63 (SCOTT-2001)

CHAPTER 174, STATUTES OF 2001, SB 63

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As enacted, Senate Bill 63 amended Insurance Code sections 1625, 1625.5, 1676, and 1749, relating to insurance.  (See Exhibit #1f)  Senator Jack Scott introduced this bill on January 8, 2001.  (See Exhibit #1a)  He carried this bill for the Insurance Agents and Brokers Legislative Council as a “clean-up bill” to another measure enacted in the prior session.  (See Exhibit #4, document SP-1; and #9, page 1) 

Senate Bill 63 was assigned to the Senate and Assembly Committees on Insurance where policy issues raised by the bill were considered.  (See Exhibits #3 and #6)  Four amendments were made to Senate Bill 63.  (See Exhibits #1b through #1e and #2)  Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Gray Davis signed Senate Bill 63 on August 12, 2001, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on August 13, 2001 as Chapter 174 of the Statutes of 2001.  (See Exhibits #1f and #2)

Senate Bill 63 contained an urgency clause which caused the bill to go into immediate effect. (See Exhibit #1f) The reason for this urgency can be found in Section 5 of Chapter 174. (Id.)
 

The Senate Committee on Insurance analysis of Senate Bill 63 as amended March 28, 2001 noted the following purpose of this legislation:

1.    Purpose of the bill.  According to the sponsor, the
Insurance Agents and Brokers Legislative Council, the bill is intended to make technical and clarifying changes to last year's AB 393 (Chapter 321, Statutes of 2000) by ensuring that agents and brokers can sell any policy sold by a personal lines license, by allowing personal lines licensees to sell two lines of insurance related to existing lines, and by clarifying the requirements that a personal lines licensee must meet to obtain a property casualty agent broker license.
(See Exhibit #3b, page 2)