BILL NUMBER: SB 396	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1707.7 of the Insurance Code, relating to
the Insurance Commissioner.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 396, as amended, Calderon. Insurance Commissioner: reports.
   Existing law requires the commissioner, on or before the first day
of August to make a report to the Governor, the Legislature, and the
committees of the Senate and Assembly having jurisdiction over
insurance containing a tabular statement and synopsis showing the
general condition of insurance, and related matters, in this state.
   This bill would require the commissioner to include in this report
information relating to the number of first-time insurance license
examinees who passed the exam, their overall pass rate, the total
number of examinations,  and  the mean examination
score for examinees, by license type,  and, for license types
with an overall pass rate of less than 65%, ethnicity/race, gender,
and level of education data for applicants,  as specified.
   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 1707.7 of the Insurance Code is amended to
read:
   1707.7.  As part of the report required under Section 12922, the
commissioner shall provide the following information for the previous
calendar year ending December 31 for five years after the operative
date of this section:
   (a) The total number of applications filed for a fire and casualty
broker-agent license, a personal lines broker-agent license, a
limited lines auto-only agent license, a life-only agent license, and
an accident and health agent license.
   (b) The number of first-time examinees who passed the exam and
their overall pass rate for each category of license described in
subdivision (a).
   (c) The total number of examinations and the mean examination
score for all examinees for each category of license described in
subdivision (a).
   (d) The total number of licensees issued a fire and casualty
license, a personal lines license, a limited lines automobile
license, a life-only license, and an accident and health license.
   (e) The total number of licensees with both a life-only agent
license and an accident and health agent license.
   (f) The total justified complaints against the licensees
enumerated in subdivision (d) annually for five years.
   (g) At the end of five years following the issuance of auto-only
agent, life-only agent and accident and health agent licenses, a
cumulative summary of the data required by this section compared to
the licenses issued for fire and casualty broker-agent, personal
lines broker-agent, and life agent for the year immediately preceding
the creation of this section. 
   (h) (1) Effective January 1, 2011, if the overall pass rate
reported pursuant to subdivision (b) for any category of license is
less than 65 percent, then the commissioner shall determine, for that
category of license, based on demographic information voluntarily
provided by applicants, the pass rate of examinees by each of the
following:  
   (A) Ethnicity/race.  
   (B) Gender.  
   (C) Level of education.  
   (2) The commissioner shall include the information received
pursuant to paragraph (1) in the next annual report required under
Section 12922. The department may request ethnicity/race, gender, and
level of education information from applicants for any category of
license specified in this section.