2023 California Code › Insurance Code - INS › DIVISION 2 - CLASSES OF INSURANCE › PART 2 - LIFE AND DISABILITY INSURANCE › CHAPTER 5 - General Regulation of Life Insurers › ARTICLE 3a - Standard Valuation Law › Section 10489.3.

10489.3. (a) Except as provided in Section 10489.4, the minimum standard of valuation for individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after the operative date of this section and for annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after that operative date under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, shall be the commissioners reserve valuation methods defined in Sections 10489.5 and 10489.6 and the following tables and interest rates:
(1) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued prior to January 1, 1980, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in those contracts: the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table, or any modification of this table approved by the commissioner, and 6 percent per annum interest rate for all contracts with commencement of benefits deferred not more than 10 years from the date of issue and with premiums payable in one sum and 4 percent per annum interest for all other individual annuity and pure endowment contracts.
(2) For individual single premium immediate annuity contracts issued on or after January 1, 1980, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in those contracts: the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table or any individual annuity mortality table adopted after 1980 by the NAIC that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for these contracts, or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and 7
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percent per annum interest.
(3) For individual annuity and pure endowment contracts issued on or after January 1, 1980, other than single premium immediate annuity contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits in those contracts, the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table or any individual annuity mortality table, adopted after 1980 by the NAIC that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for those contracts, or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and 5
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percent per annum interest for single premium deferred annuity and pure endowment contracts, and 4
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percent per annum interest for all other individual annuity and pure endowment contracts.
(4) For annuities and pure endowments purchased prior to January 1, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under those contracts: the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table or any modification of this table approved by the commissioner, and 6 percent per annum interest.
(5) For annuities and pure endowments purchased on or after January 1, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts, excluding any disability and accidental death benefits purchased under those contracts: the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table, or any group annuity mortality table adopted after 1980 by the NAIC that is approved by regulation promulgated or bulletin issued by the commissioner for use in determining the minimum standard of valuation for annuities and pure endowments, or any modification of these tables approved by the commissioner, and 7
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percent interest.
(6) All individual annuity and pure endowment contracts entered into prior to January 1, 1980, and all annuities and pure endowments purchased prior to January 1, 1980, under group annuity and pure endowment contracts shall remain subject to the provisions of Article 3A (commencing with Section 10489.1) as it existed prior to January 1, 1980.
(b) The commissioner may, by bulletin, withdraw approval to use tables that have been replaced by newly adopted tables.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 86, Sec. 209. (SB 1171) Effective January 1, 2017.)