California 2015-2016 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 1112 — Utilities: water and sewer system corporations: transactions.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 631, Statutes of 2016.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2016. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 6 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

The Public Utilities Act prohibits, with certain exemptions, any public utility other than a common carrier by railroad from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering the whole or any part of specified property necessary or useful in the performance of the public utility's duties to the public, among other things, without first either having secured an order from the Public Utilities Commission authorizing it to do so for qualified transactions valued above $5,000,000, or for qualified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, having filed an advice letter and obtained approval from the commission authorizing it to do so. Under existing law, every sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, disposition, encumbrance, merger, or consolidation made other than in accordance with the advice letter and approval from the commission authorizing it is void. Existing law requires the commission, before authorizing the merger, acquisition, or change in control of an electric, gas, or telephone utility when one of the parties has revenues in excess of a specified amount, to consider, among other things, whether the proposal provides short-term and long-term economic benefits to ratepayers and equitably allocates the short-term and long-term forecasted economic benefits of the proposed merger, acquisition, or change in control, as determined by the commission, between shareholders and ratepayers, if the commission has ratemaking authority. Under existing law, any merger, acquisition, or change in control without that prior authorization is void. This bill would provide that if a water or sewer system corporation or an entity merging with or acquiring control of a water or sewer system corporation with less than 2,000 service connections fails to receive the commission's approval before entering into any of the specified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, the transaction is voidable by the commission until the commission either retroactively approves or conditionally approves the transaction. The bill would authorize the commission to delegate this approval authority to a specified division director. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 631, Statutes of 2016.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5430.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. Urgency clause adopted.

  6. Ordered to special consent calendar.

  7. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  8. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5927.) Ordered to the Senate.

  9. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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

  11. From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (August 10).

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

  13. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 29).

  14. June 22 hearing postponed by committee.

  15. Referred to Com. on U. & C.

  16. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  17. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3954.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  18. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  19. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  20. Set for hearing May 16.

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

  22. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3593.) (April 19).

  23. Set for hearing April 19.

  24. April 5 hearing postponed by committee.

  25. Set for hearing April 5.

  26. March 29 hearing postponed by committee.

  27. Set for hearing March 29.

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

  29. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.

  30. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Cannella · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Cannella

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Special Consent (Urgency Clause)

Passed 39 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 36000
Democratic 3000
Total 39000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Allen — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Lara — Yea
Pan — Yea
De León — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Leno — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Huff — Yea
Bates — Yea
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Liu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

SB 1112 Cannella Consent Calendar Second Day

Passed 78 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 68002
Democratic 5000
Republican 5000
Total 78002
% of votes cast 98%0%0%3%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Baker — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Brown — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Levine — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Mathis — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Steinorth — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Williams — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Daly — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Salas — Yea
Weber — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Burke — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Harper — Yea
Campos — Yea
Holden — Yea
Kim — Not Voting
Gray — Yea
Linder — Yea
Low — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Chang — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Lopez — Yea
Medina — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Chu — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Ting — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Wood — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hadley — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Not Voting
Travis Allen — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar.

Passed 19 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15001
Democratic 2000
Republican 2000
Total 19001
% of votes cast 95%0%0%5%
How each member voted (20)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Weber — Yea
Wood — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Daly — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Holden — Yea
Chang — Not Voting
Chu — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 14000
Republican 1000
Total 15000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Obernolte — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Burke — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Ting — Yea
Williams — Yea
Hadley — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea

Official roll call →

3rd Reading

Passed 39 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 36001
Democratic 3000
Total 39001
% of votes cast 98%0%0%3%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Yea
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huff — Yea
Leno — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Liu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Pan — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Allen — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Hill — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Lara — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Runner — Not Voting
Hueso — Yea
Roth — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea

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Subjects

public-safety environment technology
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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 1112 do?
The Public Utilities Act prohibits, with certain exemptions, any public utility other than a common carrier by railroad from selling, leasing, assigning, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering the whole or any part of specified property necessary or useful in the performance of the public utility's duties to the public, among other things, without first either having secured an order from the Public Utilities Commission authorizing it to do so for qualified transactions valued above $5,000,000, or for qualified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, having filed an advice letter and obtained approval from the commission authorizing it to do so. Under existing law, every sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, disposition, encumbrance, merger, or consolidation made other than in accordance with the advice letter and approval from the commission authorizing it is void. Existing law requires the commission, before authorizing the merger, acquisition, or change in control of an electric, gas, or telephone utility when one of the parties has revenues in excess of a specified amount, to consider, among other things, whether the proposal provides short-term and long-term economic benefits to ratepayers and equitably allocates the short-term and long-term forecasted economic benefits of the proposed merger, acquisition, or change in control, as determined by the commission, between shareholders and ratepayers, if the commission has ratemaking authority. Under existing law, any merger, acquisition, or change in control without that prior authorization is void. This bill would provide that if a water or sewer system corporation or an entity merging with or acquiring control of a water or sewer system corporation with less than 2,000 service connections fails to receive the commission's approval before entering into any of the specified transactions valued at $5,000,000 or less, the transaction is voidable by the commission until the commission either retroactively approves or conditionally approves the transaction. The bill would authorize the commission to delegate this approval authority to a specified division director. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors SB 1112?
SB 1112 is sponsored by Cannella.
What is the current status of SB 1112?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2016. Enacted.
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