AB 1232, as introduced, Cristina Garcia. Insurance Commissioner: administrative hearings.
Existing law grants the Insurance Commissioner certain powers and duties. Existing law prohibits the commissioner from denying an insurance agent or broker license to an applicant without an opportunity to be heard. The hearing is required to be conducted in accordance with specified provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.
This bill would require, if the applicant or permanent licensee is a natural person and the hearing is contested, that the hearing be conducted by an administrative law judge chosen in accordance with specified provisions of the act or appointed by the commissioner.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1667 of the Insurance Code is amended
2to read:
Except as provided in Section 1669, a license shall not
4be denied without an opportunitybegin delete toend deletebegin insert forend insert the applicant to be heard
5in support of hisbegin insert or herend insert application. When a hearing is held, the
P2 1proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5
2begin insert (commencing with Section 11500)end insert of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title
32 of the Governmentbegin delete Codeend deletebegin insert
Code, except a hearing with respect to
4a natural person subject to this chapter shall be conducted by an
5administrative law judge for purposes of Sections 11512 and 11517
6of the Government Code, chosen under Section 11502 of the
7Government Code or appointed by the commissionerend insert.
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