SACRAMENTO, California — Two legislative proposals seeking to decrease wildfire insurance costs will not advance this year after the state Senate failed to take them up for a vote before the end of session late Saturday.
One of the proposals, Assemblymember Damon Connolly’s A.B. 2416, would have urged the Insurance Department to pass more property insurance discounts for wildfire preparedness efforts. The other, Assemblymember David Alvarez’s A.B. 2996, would have allowed state loans to the insurer of last resort in case it exhausted its reserves paying out claims.
The bills got caught up in increasingly tense jockeying between the Assembly and Senate as the houses raced to vote on bills before a midnight deadline to finalize legislation — and as they split over Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request for a special session on gas prices.
“I am unaware of the reason,” Connolly said of his bill’s fate in an interview Saturday night. “It was eligible to be voted on and it has no opposition.”
