AB 1301 — Electricity.

Summary

Electricity.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 09/30/26 - Chaptered html September 30, 2026
• Enrolled 09/04/26 - Enrolled html September 04, 2026
• Amended 08/13/26 - Amended Senate html August 13, 2026
• Amended 06/18/26 - Amended Senate Current pdf June 18, 2026
• Amended 06/04/26 - Amended Senate pdf June 04, 2026
• Introduced 02/21/25 - Introduced pdf February 21, 2025
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This bill amends 1 section(s) of the California codes: Section 25665.7 of the Public Resources Code.

• Section 25665.7 of the Public Resources Code

  SEC. 8.Section 309.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:309.5.(a)There is within the commission an independent Public Advocate’s Office of the Public Utilities Commission to represent and advocate on behalf of the interests of public utility customers and subscribers within the jurisdiction of the commission. The goal of the office shall be to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. For revenue allocation and rate design matters, the office shall primarily consider the interests of residential and small commercial customers.(b)(1)The director of the office shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate.(2)The director shall annually appear before the appropriate policy committees of the Assembly and the Senate to report on the activities of the office.(c)The director shall develop a budget for the office that shall be subject to final approval of the Department of Finance. As authorized in the approved budget, the office shall employ personnel and resources, including attorneys and other legal support staff, at a level sufficient to ensure that customer and subscriber interests are effectively represented in all significant proceedings. The office may employ experts necessary to carry out its functions. The director may appoint a lead attorney who shall represent the office, and shall report to and serve at the pleasure of the director. The lead attorney for the office shall obtain adequate legal personnel for the work to be conducted by the office from the commission’s attorney appointed pursuant to Section 307. The commission’s attorney shall timely and appropriately fulfill all requests for legal personnel made by the lead attorney for the office, if the office has sufficient moneys and positions in its budget for the services requested.(d)The commission shall develop appropriate procedures to ensure that the existence of the office does not create a conflict of roles for any employee. The procedures shall include, but shall not be limited to, the development of a code of conduct and procedures for ensuring that advocates and their representatives on a particular case or proceeding are not advising decisionmakers on the same case or proceeding.(e)The office may compel the production or disclosure of any information it deems necessary to perform its duties from any entity regulated by the commission, provided that any objections to any request for information shall be decided in writing by the assigned commissioner or by the president of the commission, if there is no assigned commissioner.(f)There is hereby created the Public Utilities Commission Public Advocate’s Office Account in the General Fund. Moneys from the Public Utilities Commission Utilities Reimbursement Account in the General Fund shall be transferred in the annual Budget Act to the Public Utilities Commission Public Advocate’s Office Account. The funds in the Public Utilities Commission Public Advocate’s Office Account shall be a budgetary program fund administered and utilized exclusively by the office in the performance of its duties as determined by the director. The director shall annually submit a staffing report containing a comparison of the staffing levels for each five-year period.(g)On or before February 1 of each year, the office shall provide to the chairperson of the fiscal committee of each house of the Legislature and to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee all of the following information:(1)The number of personnel years utilized during the prior year by the office.(2)The total dollars expended by the office in the prior year, the estimated total dollars expended in the current year, and the total dollars proposed for appropriation in the following budget year.(3)Workload standards and measures for the office.(h)The office shall meet and confer in an informal setting with a regulated entity before issuing a report or pl → SEC. 8. SEC. 9. SEC. 10. SEC. 11. SEC. 12. SEC. 13. SEC. 14. SEC. 15. SEC. 16. SEC. 17. SEC. 18. SEC. 19. SEC. 20. SEC. 21. SEC. 22. SEC. 23. SEC. 24. SEC. 25. SEC. 26. SEC. 27. SEC. 28. SEC. 29. SEC. 30. SEC. 31. SEC. 32. SEC. 33. SEC. 34.

  repealed

Action History

1. September 30, 2026

   Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 878, Statutes of 2026.

2. September 30, 2026

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 14, 2026

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.

4. August 31, 2026

   From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30).

5. August 31, 2026

   Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6985.)

6. August 31, 2026

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6994.).

7. August 28, 2026

   Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

8. August 28, 2026

   Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Coms. on U. & E. and APPR.

9. August 25, 2026

   Re-referred to Coms. on U. & E. and APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

10. August 24, 2026

    Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

11. August 19, 2026

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

12. August 19, 2026

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).

13. August 17, 2026

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

14. August 13, 2026

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

15. August 13, 2026

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13).

16. June 29, 2026

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

17. June 18, 2026

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

18. June 17, 2026

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 16).

19. June 04, 2026

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.

20. May 28, 2025

    Referred to Com. on E., U & C.

21. May 15, 2025

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

22. May 15, 2025

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1570.)

23. May 08, 2025

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

24. May 07, 2025

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7).

25. April 23, 2025

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

26. March 10, 2025

    Referred to Com. on U. & E.

27. February 24, 2025

    Read first time.

28. February 22, 2025

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

29. February 21, 2025

    Introduced. To print.

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• Cottie Petrie-Norris · Primary

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