BILL NUMBER: AB 1130	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wilk

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 12744 of the Insurance Code, relating to
insurance.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1130, as introduced, Wilk. Insurance: home protection
contracts.
   Existing law prohibits a person from issuing home protection
contracts in this state unless that person holds a home protection
company license issued by the Department of Insurance, except as
specified.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12744 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:

   12744.  (a) No person shall issue or offer to issue home
protection contracts in this state unless  such 
 that  person  holds   has been issued
 a home protection company license issued by the department,
except as provided in subdivision (b)  of this section
 .
   (b) An insurer admitted for the class of insurance defined in
Section 120 is authorized, in addition to the underwriting powers
granted by  such   that  class, to issue
home protection contracts, but the provisions of this part shall not
be otherwise applicable to  such   those 
insurers or their contracts.
   (c) No license shall be granted to a foreign applicant that has
not fulfilled the requirements of Sections 716 and 717. For purposes
of this part, the term "class of insurance" as used in  said
  those  sections shall mean the business of a home
protection company. This section shall not prohibit the admission of
a foreign home protection company which has actively transacted home
protection business in its state of domicile for three years or
more.
   (d) The commissioner shall by regulation prescribe forms for
applications for home protection company licenses consistent with the
provisions of this part. Any reference to  a  certificate
of authority in Article 3 (commencing with Section 699) of Chapter 1
of Part 2 of Division 1, shall mean  a  home protection
company license.