SB 255 — Women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement: electric service providers: energy storage system companies: community choice aggregators.

Summary

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature. Existing law defines an "electric service provider" as an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, excluding electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and certain cogenerators. Existing law requires that electric service providers register with the commission and authorizes direct transactions between electric service providers and end-use customers. Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator to aggregate the electrical load of electricity consumers within its boundaries and provides that the community choice aggregator is solely responsible for all generation procurement activities on behalf of the community choice aggregator's customers, except where other generation procurement arrangements are expressly authorized by statute. Existing law directs the commission to require every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including renewable energy, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, and rail projects. Existing law requires the reporting of certain information about the implementation of the plans. This bill would change the $25,000,000 annual gross revenue threshold above which these requirements become applicable to $25,000,000 in gross annual California revenues, and would extend these requirements to electric service providers, as specified. The bill would include energy storage system and vegetation management projects within the enumerated categories of projects to which these requirements apply. The bill would direct the commission to require every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding $15,000,000, but not more than $25,000,000, to annually submit data in a simplified form to the commission on its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories. This bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $15,000,000 to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects. The bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $15,000,000 to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects. Existing law requires a community choice aggregator to develop, adopt, and file with the commission an implementation plan detailing the process and consequences of aggregation and containing specified information. This bill would additionally require a community choice aggregator to include, in its implementation plan, its methods for ensuring procurement from local, small, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects. Existing law encourages cable television corporations and direct broadcast satellite providers to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area. This bill would additionally encourage exempt wholesale generators selling electricity to retail sellers, distributed energy resource contractors, and energy storage system companies to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area, and encourages exempt community choice aggregators to voluntarily adopt a similar procurement plan, as specified. Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the bill's expanded requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Because the bill would impose reporting requirements upon community choice aggregators, which are entities of local government, and require a community choice aggregator to expand the matters it includes in its electrical load aggregation implementation plan, 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 specified reasons.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 10/02/19 - Chaptered Current pdf October 02, 2019
• Enrolled 09/12/19 - Enrolled pdf September 12, 2019
• Amended 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly pdf September 03, 2019
• Amended 07/05/19 - Amended Assembly pdf July 05, 2019
• Amended 06/18/19 - Amended Assembly pdf June 18, 2019
• Amended 05/17/19 - Amended Senate pdf May 17, 2019
• Amended 04/02/19 - Amended Senate pdf April 02, 2019
• Amended 03/20/19 - Amended Senate pdf March 20, 2019
• Introduced 02/12/19 - Introduced pdf February 12, 2019
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Action History

1. October 02, 2019

   Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 407, Statutes of 2019.

2. October 02, 2019

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 17, 2019

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

4. September 10, 2019

   Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2785.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

5. September 10, 2019

   Ordered to special consent calendar.

6. September 09, 2019

   In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

7. September 09, 2019

   Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 3200.) Ordered to the Senate.

8. September 04, 2019

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

9. September 03, 2019

   Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

10. August 30, 2019

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30).

11. August 14, 2019

    August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

12. July 05, 2019

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

13. July 03, 2019

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26).

14. June 18, 2019

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.

15. June 10, 2019

    Referred to Com. on U. & E.

16. May 22, 2019

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

17. May 21, 2019

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1198.) Ordered to the Assembly.

18. May 20, 2019

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

19. May 17, 2019

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

20. May 17, 2019

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1094.) (May 16).

21. May 10, 2019

    Set for hearing May 16.

22. April 22, 2019

    April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

23. April 11, 2019

    Set for hearing April 22.

24. April 02, 2019

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

25. April 01, 2019

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 464.) (March 27).

26. March 20, 2019

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.

27. March 19, 2019

    Set for hearing March 27.

28. February 21, 2019

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

29. February 13, 2019

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.

30. February 12, 2019

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

Sponsors

• Bradford · Primary

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