Legislators learned from safety experts, planners, building officials, and government researchers. The summary report describes the results of that hearing. A report prepared by the Senate Select Committee on the Northridge Earthquake which provides a general resource illustrating the totality of taxpayer dollars directed into the recovery. The purpose of the hearing was to create a public record identifying the total dollar amount directed to the recovery, and where and how the money has been spent to date. The summary report from the interim hearing by the Senate Housing and Land Use Committee on the issue of earthquake safety and building codes.
Testimony includes engineers, architects, building officials and property owners.
This report contains the committee staff's explanation of what happened at the hearing, reprints the briefing paper that the staff wrote for the committee and reproduces the witnesses' written materials and the letters that the committee received after the hearing. This hearing began the process of discussing the issues raised by these bills and it continues the discussion on how California public policy should be developed to address residential earthquake insurance problems. A transcript of the Joint Hearing of the Senate Insurance and Judiciary Committees and the Assembly Insurance Committee on the subject of eathquake insurance, specifically the proposal of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush to create a California Earthquake Authority, as the solution to the residential property insurance problems facing California. This hearing provided Insurance Commissioner Quackenbush an opportunity to present his program for DOI and to educate the committee on how he plans to deal with a range of difficult issues facing DOI and California. This hearing also provided other interested parties the opportunity to present their views on issues facing DOI and the insurance market throughout the state.