Bill Text: CA AB855 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance: liability provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB855 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB855-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 855	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beth Gaines

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 11580.06 of the Insurance Code, relating
to insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 855, as introduced, Beth Gaines. Insurance: liability
provisions.
   Existing law governs the regulation of automobile liability
insurance and motor vehicle liability insurance. Existing law defines
various terms for those purposes.
   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 11580.06 of the Insurance Code is amended to
read:
   11580.06.  Except as  may be  otherwise provided
in this article:
   (a) The term "motor vehicle" means  any   a
 vehicle designed for use principally upon streets and highways
and subject to motor vehicle registration under the laws of this
state.
   (b) The term "insured" shall include the person or persons to whom
any policy subject to this article is issued as named insured and
any other person to whom coverage is afforded under the terms of any
such policy.
   (c) The term "bodily injury" shall include sickness or disease,
including death resulting therefrom.
   (d) The term "automobile" means  any   a
 self-propelled motor vehicle, with neither more than nor less
than four wheels, designed for use principally upon streets and
highways and subject to motor vehicle registration under the laws of
this state.
   (e) The term "arrest" shall have the same meaning as set forth in
Section 834 of the Penal Code.
   (f) The term "operated by" or "when operating" shall be
conclusively presumed to describe the conduct of the person sitting
immediately behind the steering controls of the motor vehicle. The
person shall be conclusively presumed to be the sole operator of the
motor vehicle.
   (g) The term "use" when applied to a motor vehicle shall only mean
operating, maintaining, loading, or unloading a motor vehicle.
   (h) The word "terms" when used with reference to a policy or
endorsement includes the provision of coverage, exclusions,
restrictions, conditions, deductions, and limits.
   (i) Unless otherwise provided in this code, the term "leased motor
vehicle" means a motor vehicle leased or rented by a lessor licensed
to lease motor vehicles under a written contract for a period of six
months or longer.