BILL NUMBER: AB 1232	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cristina Garcia

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1667 of the Insurance Code, relating to
insurance.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 1667 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:
   1667.  Except as provided in Section 1669, a license shall not be
denied without an opportunity  to   for 
the applicant to be heard in support of his  or her 
application. When a hearing is held, the proceedings shall be
conducted in accordance with Chapter 5  (commencing with Section
11500)  of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
 Code   Code, except a hearing with respect to a
natural person subject to this chapter shall be conducted by an
administrative law judge for purposes of Sections 11512 and 11517 of
the Government Code, chosen under Section 11502 of the Government
Code or appointed by the commissioner  .