BILL NUMBER: AB 2240	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beth Gaines

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 108.1 of the Insurance Code, relating to
insurance.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2240, as introduced, Beth Gaines. Insurance: liability
insurers.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Insurance, headed by
the Insurance Commissioner, which regulates insurers and insurance
practices. Existing law provides that an insurer admitted to transact
liability insurance is also deemed to be admitted to transact
workers' compensation insurance for the purpose of covering an
employee, as defined.
   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 108.1 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:

   108.1.   Insurers   An insurer  admitted
to transact liability insurance  are   is 
also deemed to be admitted to transact workers' compensation
insurance for the purpose of covering  those persons
  a person  defined as  employees 
 an employee  by subdivision (d) of Section 3351 of the
Labor Code.