AB 2061 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

California FAIR Plan Association: data.

Summary

Existing law creates the Department of Insurance to regulate the business of insurance. Existing law generally regulates residential property insurance, including homeowners' insurance. Existing law establishes the California FAIR Plan Association, a joint reinsurance association in which all insurers licensed to write basic property insurance participate to administer a program for the equitable apportionment of basic property insurance for persons who are unable to obtain that coverage through normal channels. Existing law requires the association to establish and maintain an internet website and toll-free telephone number, requires the association to cause the toll-free telephone number to be published in all general distribution telephone directories in the state, and requires the association to include the internet website address and toll-free telephone number on all communications with an applicant or insured. This bill would require the association to, each quarter, post on its internet website specified information, including the number of policies issued by the association in each ZIP Code and the risk exposure of the association. The bill would delete the requirement that the association cause its toll-free telephone number to be published in all general distribution telephone directories in the state. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 10095.5 of the Insurance Code proposed by AB 69 to be operative only if this bill and AB 69 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Aug 2026

Assembly Passage

May 2026

Senate Passage

Aug 2026

Governor

Introduced Feb 18, 2026 Last action Aug 30, 2026

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What changed between versions

04/15/26 - Amended Assembly → 06/18/26 - Amended Senate · 3 edits · Jun 18, 2026

MINOR

The Senate amendment expands the bill's scope by adding a new Section 1 that amends Insurance Code Section 10095.5, updating terminology and clarifying agent/broker assistance duties. It also removes the requirement for the California FAIR Plan Association to publicly post detailed claims data (number of claims filed, closed with payment, closed without payment, and outstanding) from its quarterly website disclosures. The net effect is a broader but somewhat narrower transparency package: more prescriptive rules on how agents must help consumers, but less granular public claims reporting.

Scope change

The bill now amends Section 10095.5 in addition to adding Section 10095.9, broadening its reach into existing rules about how agents and brokers must assist consumers seeking FAIR Plan coverage.

SCOPE

A new Section 1 amends Insurance Code Section 10095.5, which was not previously touched by the bill. The amendment updates terminology (changing 'Internet Web site' to 'internet website') and clarifies that agents or brokers must assist 'the agent's or broker's help' rather than the prior 'his or her help' phrasing.

REQUIREMENT

The requirement for the FAIR Plan Association to post claims data on its website each quarter is deleted. This included: number of claims filed, number of claims closed with payment to the claimant, number of claims closed without payment, and number of claims outstanding.

DEFINITION

Terminology throughout the bill is updated from 'Internet Web site' to 'internet website' for consistency with modern usage.

04/06/26 - Amended Assembly → 04/15/26 - Amended Assembly · 6 edits · Apr 15, 2026

MODERATE

The bill was significantly narrowed in scope. The original version required the Department of Insurance to update its website with a broad range of market data (home insurance, admitted and nonadmitted markets, profitability, department performance) plus surplus line broker lookup instructions. The amended version removes all of that and instead only requires the California FAIR Plan Association to post quarterly data about its own policies, risk exposure, claims, and clearinghouse removals on its own website.

Scope change

The bill shifted from a broad insurance market transparency measure targeting the Department of Insurance (covering all segments: admitted, nonadmitted, FAIR Plan, profitability, and department performance) to a narrow measure targeting only the California FAIR Plan Association's own operational data (policies by ZIP Code, risk exposure, claims, and clearinghouse removals).

SCOPE

The responsible entity changed from the Department of Insurance (updating its own website) to the California FAIR Plan Association (posting on its own website). The bill no longer requires any department-level website updates or market-wide data publication.

REQUIREMENT

All requirements for the Department to post home insurance market data, admitted market data, nonadmitted market data, profitability data, and department performance data were removed entirely.

The requirement for clear instructions helping brokers and agents find and contact licensed surplus line brokers was removed.

A new claims data requirement was added: the association must post the number of claims filed, claims closed with payment, claims closed without payment, and claims outstanding for its policies each quarter.

TECHNICAL

The requirement that data be available in a downloadable spreadsheet format was removed.

DEFINITION

The legislative digest was rewritten to reflect the narrower scope, now describing only the FAIR Plan Association's quarterly posting obligations rather than department-wide data transparency requirements.

Floor votes · Senate Aug 30, 2026 · Assembly May 27, 2026

How they voted

40–0

Passed

Total votes 40

Aug 30, 2026

D Democratic30

30 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican10

10 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Aug 30, 2026

Introduced

In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

lower

Aug 30, 2026

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).

upper

Aug 17, 2026

Upper · Passed

Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

upper

Aug 3, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

upper

Jun 25, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

upper

Jun 18, 2026

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS.

upper

Jun 10, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on INS.

upper

May 27, 2026

Lower · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.)

lower

May 14, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

lower

May 6, 2026

Committee

In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

lower

Apr 22, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

lower

Apr 16, 2026

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on INS.

lower

Apr 15, 2026

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended.

lower

Apr 7, 2026

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on INS.

lower

Apr 6, 2026

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 2, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on INS.

lower

Feb 19, 2026

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

lower

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor