California state senate bill 1371 passed yesterday 75-0.
The most recent bill language agreed on prohibits paint capping by not allowing insurers to “…offering or paying an amount that is unrelated to an accepted industry methodology used in determining paint and materials charges.”
UNOFFICIAL BALLOT MEASURE: SB 1371 AUTHOR: Correa TOPIC: Insurance: automobile repair capping. DATE: 07/14/2008 LOCATION: ASM. FLOOR MOTION: SB 1371 Correa Senate Third Reading By COTO (AYES 75. NOES 0.) (PASS) AYES **** Adams Aghazarian Anderson Arambula Beall Benoit Berg Berryhill Blakeslee Brownley Caballero Carter Cook Coto Davis De La Torre De Leon DeSaulnier DeVore Duvall Dymally Emmerson Eng Evans Feuer Fuentes Fuller Furutani Gaines Galgiani Garcia Garrick Hancock Hayashi Hernandez Horton Houston Huff Huffman Jeffries Jones Karnette Keene Krekorian La Malfa Laird Levine Lieber Lieu Ma Maze Mendoza Mullin Nakanishi Nava Niello Nunez Parra Portantino Price Ruskin Salas Saldana Silva Smyth Solorio Spitzer Strickland Swanson Torrico Tran Villines Walters Wolk Bass NOES **** ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING ********************************* Charles Calderon Leno Plescia Sharon Runner Soto