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California 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 520 — Electrical service: provider of last resort.

Last action October 02, 2019 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 408, Statutes of 2019.

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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 21, 2019. 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 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, a public utility has a duty to serve, including furnishing and maintaining adequate, efficient, just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities as are necessary to promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons and the public. This bill would provide that the electrical corporation is the provider of last resort, as defined, in its service territory unless provided otherwise in a service territory boundary agreement approved by the commission pursuant to existing law or unless the commission designates a load-serving entity, as defined, other than the electrical corporation to serve as the provider of last resort for all or a portion of that service territory pursuant to a joint application of the electrical corporation and the load-serving entity. The bill would establish requirements for the application and for a load-serving entity other than the electrical corporation to serve as the provider of last resort. The bill would require the commission to ensure that each provider of last resort receives reasonable cost recovery for being designated and serving as the provider of last resort. The bill would require the commission to supervise and regulate each provider of last resort, as necessary, as a public utility for the services it provides as a provider of last resort to ensure the provision of electrical service to customers without disruption, and would provide that each provider of last resort is a public utility subject to the jurisdiction, control, and regulation of the commission, as specified. The bill would require the commission to develop a process that facilitates a joint application from load-serving entities that are not electrical corporations to request to transfer the responsibilities of the provider of last resort, in instances when one load-serving entity that is not an electrical corporation has already been designated as a provider of last resort. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of a commission action implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Bill Text

Chaptered 10/02/19 - Chaptered Current pdf October 02, 2019
Enrolled 09/13/19 - Enrolled pdf September 13, 2019
Amended 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly pdf September 03, 2019
Amended 08/13/19 - Amended Assembly pdf August 13, 2019
Amended 06/27/19 - Amended Assembly pdf June 27, 2019
Amended 04/11/19 - Amended Senate pdf April 11, 2019
Introduced 02/21/19 - Introduced pdf February 21, 2019
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Action History

October 02, 2019
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 408, Statutes of 2019.
October 02, 2019
Approved by the Governor.
September 19, 2019
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
September 11, 2019
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 2851.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
September 10, 2019
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
September 10, 2019
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 3. Page 3337.) Ordered to the Senate.
September 04, 2019
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
September 03, 2019
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
August 30, 2019
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30).
August 21, 2019
August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
August 13, 2019
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
August 12, 2019
(Received at desk July 17 pursuant to JR 61(a)(10)).
August 12, 2019
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 10).
June 27, 2019
July 3 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
June 27, 2019
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
June 03, 2019
Referred to Com. on U. & E.
May 22, 2019
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
May 21, 2019
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1187.) Ordered to the Assembly.
May 16, 2019
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
May 16, 2019
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1102.) (May 16).
May 14, 2019
Set for hearing May 16.
May 13, 2019
May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
May 03, 2019
Set for hearing May 13.
May 01, 2019
May 6 hearing postponed by committee.
April 30, 2019
Set for hearing May 6.
April 24, 2019
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 842.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
April 11, 2019
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
April 04, 2019
Set for hearing April 24.
April 03, 2019
April 10 hearing postponed by committee.
March 26, 2019
Set for hearing April 10.
March 07, 2019
Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
February 22, 2019
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
February 21, 2019
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 3 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Hertzberg

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB520 Hertzberg Concurrence

September 11, 2019

Passed 33 Yea · 2 Nay · 5 Other

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Unaffiliated	23	1	0	3
Democratic	7	1	0	2
Republican	3	0	0	0
Total	33	2	0	5
% of votes cast	83%	5%	0%	13%

How each member voted (40)

Member	Party	Vote
Rubio	—	Yea
Monning	—	Yea
Wieckowski	—	Yea
Mitchell	—	Yea
Bradford	—	Yea
Wilk	—	Yea
Beall	—	Yea
Atkins	—	Yea
Hill	—	Yea
Roth	—	Yea
Morrell	—	Yea
Hueso	—	Yea
Leyva	—	Yea
Dodd	—	Yea
Borgeas	—	Yea
Galgiani	—	Yea
Hertzberg	—	Yea
Portantino	—	Yea
Bates	—	Yea
Nielsen	—	Yea
Chang	—	Yea
Pan	—	Yea
Glazer	—	Nay
Moorlach	—	Not Voting
Allen	—	Not Voting
Skinner	—	Not Voting
Mark Stone	—	Yea
Archuleta, Bob	Democratic	Yea
Caballero, Anna M.	Democratic	Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena	Democratic	Yea
Gonzalez, Lena A.	Democratic	Yea
Hurtado, Melissa	Democratic	Yea
Jackson, Corey A.	Democratic	Yea
McGuire, Mike	Democratic	Not Voting
Stern, Henry I.	Democratic	Not Voting
Umberg, Thomas J.	Democratic	Yea
Wiener, Scott D.	Democratic	Nay
Dahle, Megan	Republican	Yea
Grove, Shannon	Republican	Yea
Jones, Brian W.	Republican	Yea

Official roll call →

SB 520 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Quirk

September 10, 2019

Passed 69 Yea · 3 Nay · 7 Other

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Democratic	18	2	0	2
Unaffiliated	46	1	0	5
Republican	5	0	0	0
Total	69	3	0	7
% of votes cast	87%	4%	0%	9%

How each member voted (79)

Member	Party	Vote
Smith	—	Yea
Cunningham	—	Yea
Gonzalez	—	Yea
Diep	—	Yea
Chau	—	Yea
Gloria	—	Yea
Voepel	—	Yea
Rodriguez	—	Yea
Santiago	—	Yea
Obernolte	—	Yea
Chiu	—	Yea
Gray	—	Yea
Holden	—	Yea
Daly	—	Yea
Eggman	—	Yea
Maienschein	—	Yea
Jones-Sawyer	—	Yea
Quirk	—	Yea
Friedman	—	Yea
Ting	—	Yea
Kamlager-Dove	—	Yea
Melendez	—	Yea
Low	—	Yea
Nazarian	—	Yea
Burke	—	Yea
Cooper	—	Yea
Medina	—	Yea
Rendon	—	Yea
Chu	—	Yea
McCarty	—	Yea
O'Donnell	—	Yea
Waldron	—	Yea
Levine	—	Nay
Mullin	—	Not Voting
Bloom	—	Not Voting
Wood	—	Not Voting
Kiley	—	Not Voting
Weber	—	Not Voting
Fong	—	Yea
Salas	—	Yea
Brough	—	Yea
Mayes	—	Yea
Mathis	—	Yea
Frazier	—	Yea
Bigelow	—	Yea
Cooley	—	Yea
Cristina Garcia	—	Yea
Eduardo Garcia	—	Yea
Jim Patterson	—	Yea
Luz Rivas	—	Yea
Mark Stone	—	Yea
Wendy Carrillo	—	Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M.	Democratic	Yea
Arambula, Joaquin	Democratic	Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca	Democratic	Nay
Berman, Marc	Democratic	Yea
Boerner, Tasha	Democratic	Nay
Bonta, Mia	Democratic	Yea
Calderon, Lisa	Democratic	Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina	Democratic	Yea
Gabriel, Jesse	Democratic	Yea
Gipson, Mike A.	Democratic	Yea
Grayson, Timothy S.	Democratic	Yea
Irwin, Jacqui	Democratic	Yea
Kalra, Ash	Democratic	Not Voting
Limón, Monique	Democratic	Yea
Muratsuchi, Al	Democratic	Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie	Democratic	Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon	Democratic	Yea
Ramos, James C.	Democratic	Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez	Democratic	Yea
Rivas, Robert	Democratic	Yea
Rubio, Blanca E.	Democratic	Yea
Wicks, Buffy	Democratic	Not Voting
Chen, Phillip	Republican	Yea
Choi, Steven S.	Republican	Yea
Flora, Heath	Republican	Yea
Gallagher, James	Republican	Yea
Lackey, Tom	Republican	Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

August 30, 2019

Passed 18 Yea · 0 Nay

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Democratic	5	0	0	0
Unaffiliated	13	0	0	0
Total	18	0	0	0
% of votes cast	100%	0%	0%	0%

How each member voted (18)

Member	Party	Vote
Bloom	—	Yea
Fong	—	Yea
Brough	—	Yea
Obernolte	—	Yea
Maienschein	—	Yea
Bigelow	—	Yea
Quirk	—	Yea
Eggman	—	Yea
Gonzalez	—	Yea
Diep	—	Yea
Chau	—	Yea
Eduardo Garcia	—	Yea
Wendy Carrillo	—	Yea
Bonta, Mia	Democratic	Yea
Calderon, Lisa	Democratic	Yea
Gabriel, Jesse	Democratic	Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie	Democratic	Yea
Rivas, Robert	Democratic	Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

July 10, 2019

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Unaffiliated	12	0	0	0
Democratic	2	0	0	0
Republican	1	0	0	0
Total	15	0	0	0
% of votes cast	100%	0%	0%	0%

How each member voted (15)

Member	Party	Vote
Burke	—	Yea
Santiago	—	Yea
Mayes	—	Yea
Holden	—	Yea
Ting	—	Yea
Cunningham	—	Yea
Eggman	—	Yea
Quirk	—	Yea
Cristina Garcia	—	Yea
Eduardo Garcia	—	Yea
Jim Patterson	—	Yea
Wendy Carrillo	—	Yea
Muratsuchi, Al	Democratic	Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez	Democratic	Yea
Chen, Phillip	Republican	Yea

Official roll call →

3rd Reading

May 21, 2019

Passed 36 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Unaffiliated	25	0	0	2
Democratic	9	0	0	0
Republican	2	0	0	0
Total	36	0	0	2
% of votes cast	95%	0%	0%	5%

How each member voted (38)

Member	Party	Vote
Rubio	—	Yea
Monning	—	Yea
Wieckowski	—	Yea
Mitchell	—	Yea
Bradford	—	Yea
Wilk	—	Yea
Beall	—	Yea
Atkins	—	Yea
Hill	—	Yea
Roth	—	Yea
Morrell	—	Yea
Hueso	—	Yea
Leyva	—	Yea
Dodd	—	Yea
Skinner	—	Yea
Allen	—	Yea
Borgeas	—	Yea
Galgiani	—	Yea
Hertzberg	—	Yea
Portantino	—	Yea
Glazer	—	Yea
Nielsen	—	Yea
Chang	—	Yea
Pan	—	Yea
Moorlach	—	Not Voting
Bates	—	Not Voting
Mark Stone	—	Yea
Archuleta, Bob	Democratic	Yea
Caballero, Anna M.	Democratic	Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena	Democratic	Yea
Hurtado, Melissa	Democratic	Yea
Jackson, Corey A.	Democratic	Yea
McGuire, Mike	Democratic	Yea
Stern, Henry I.	Democratic	Yea
Umberg, Thomas J.	Democratic	Yea
Wiener, Scott D.	Democratic	Yea
Grove, Shannon	Republican	Yea
Jones, Brian W.	Republican	Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass

May 16, 2019

Passed 5 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Republican	1	0	0	0
Unaffiliated	4	0	0	1
Total	5	0	0	1
% of votes cast	83%	0%	0%	17%

How each member voted (6)

Member	Party	Vote
Wieckowski	—	Yea
Portantino	—	Yea
Hill	—	Yea
Bradford	—	Yea
Bates	—	Not Voting
Jones, Brian W.	Republican	Yea

Official roll call →

Placed on suspense file

May 13, 2019

Passed 6 Yea · 0 Nay

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Republican	1	0	0	0
Unaffiliated	5	0	0	0
Total	6	0	0	0
% of votes cast	100%	0%	0%	0%

How each member voted (6)

Member	Party	Vote
Wieckowski	—	Yea
Portantino	—	Yea
Bates	—	Yea
Hill	—	Yea
Bradford	—	Yea
Jones, Brian W.	Republican	Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

April 24, 2019

Passed 12 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other

Party	Yea	Nay	Present	Not Voting
Unaffiliated	9	0	0	1
Democratic	3	0	0	0
Total	12	0	0	1
% of votes cast	92%	0%	0%	8%

How each member voted (13)

Member	Party	Vote
Dodd	—	Yea
Rubio	—	Yea
Hertzberg	—	Yea
Hill	—	Yea
Hueso	—	Yea
Bradford	—	Yea
Chang	—	Yea
Skinner	—	Yea
Moorlach	—	Not Voting
Mark Stone	—	Yea
McGuire, Mike	Democratic	Yea
Stern, Henry I.	Democratic	Yea
Wiener, Scott D.	Democratic	Yea

Official roll call →

Subjects

public-safety energy

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 520 do?: Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, a public utility has a duty to serve, including furnishing and maintaining adequate, efficient, just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities as are necessary to promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons and the public. This bill would provide that the electrical corporation is the provider of last resort, as defined, in its service territory unless provided otherwise in a service territory boundary agreement approved by the commission pursuant to existing law or unless the commission designates a load-serving entity, as defined, other than the electrical corporation to serve as the provider of last resort for all or a portion of that service territory pursuant to a joint application of the electrical corporation and the load-serving entity. The bill would establish requirements for the application and for a load-serving entity other than the electrical corporation to serve as the provider of last resort. The bill would require the commission to ensure that each provider of last resort receives reasonable cost recovery for being designated and serving as the provider of last resort. The bill would require the commission to supervise and regulate each provider of last resort, as necessary, as a public utility for the services it provides as a provider of last resort to ensure the provision of electrical service to customers without disruption, and would provide that each provider of last resort is a public utility subject to the jurisdiction, control, and regulation of the commission, as specified. The bill would require the commission to develop a process that facilitates a joint application from load-serving entities that are not electrical corporations to request to transfer the responsibilities of the provider of last resort, in instances when one load-serving entity that is not an electrical corporation has already been designated as a provider of last resort. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of a commission action implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Who sponsors SB 520?: SB 520 is sponsored by Hertzberg.
What is the current status of SB 520?: This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 21, 2019. Enacted.
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Identifier: SB 520
Jurisdiction: California
Session: 2019-2020 Regular Session
Type: Bill
Introduced: February 21, 2019
Status: Enacted
Prime sponsor: Hertzberg

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