SB 1222 — Public Utilities Commission: reports: financing orders.

Summary

The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) , with jurisdiction over all public utilities. The California Constitution grants the PUC certain general powers over all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature, and authorizes the Legislature to confer additional authority and jurisdiction upon the PUC that is cognate and germane to the regulation of public utilities. Existing law requires the PUC to submit various reports to the Legislature, legislative committees, and the Governor, as specified. This bill would change the date by which the PUC must submit specified reports, change the contents of specified reports, renumber various codified reporting provisions, and repeal the provisions requiring the PUC to submit specified reports. The bill would repeal a reporting requirement of electrical corporations and the PUC with respect to the 21st Century Energy System Decision, as defined. The bill would repeal a requirement that the PUC conduct a zero-based budget for all of its programs by January 10, 2015. Existing law also requires the Legislative Counsel to annually prepare, publish, and maintain an electronic list of all reports that state and local agencies are required or requested by law to prepare and file with the Governor or the Legislature, or both, in the future or within the preceding year. This bill would require the Legislative Counsel to revise the list by deleting specified reports from the list. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to submit to the PUC and to any local publicly owned electric utility recommendations designed to reduce wasteful, unnecessary, or uneconomic energy consumption resulting from specified practices, including differential rate structures, cost-of-service allocations, disallowances of business expenses for advertising or promotional activities that encourage the use of electricity, peakload pricing, and other pricing measures. Existing law requires the PUC and local publicly owned electric utilities to review and consider the recommendations of the Energy Commission and, within 6 months after the date they receive them, to report to the Governor and the Legislature their actions and reasons therefor with respect to each recommendation. This bill would repeal these requirements. Existing law relative to restructuring of the electrical industry authorizes an electrical corporation to apply to the commission for a determination that certain transition costs, as defined, may be recovered through fixed transition amounts, which would constitute transition property, as defined, and provides, until December 31, 2016, for the issuance of financing orders and provides for the issuance of rate reduction bonds to be paid out of rates. This bill would extend the authorization for the issuance of these financing orders from December 31, 2016, to June 30, 2022. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board (state board) as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. Existing law requires the state board to report to the Governor and the Legislature by December 31, 2011, on the reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from the increase of new electrical generation that utilizes excess waste heat through combined heat and power systems and recommend policies that further the goals of the Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act. This bill would repeal this reporting requirement. This bill would also make various minor or nonsubstantive changes, including, but not limited to, shifts in the responsibilities of various divisions of the PUC. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 454.55 and 454.56 of the Public Utilities Code, proposed by AB 1330, that would become operative only if this bill and AB 1330 are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2017, and this bill is chaptered last.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 09/29/16 - Chaptered Current pdf September 29, 2016
• Enrolled 09/07/16 - Enrolled pdf September 07, 2016
• Amended 08/30/16 - Amended Assembly pdf August 30, 2016
• Amended 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly pdf August 19, 2016
• Amended 06/16/16 - Amended Assembly pdf June 16, 2016
• Amended 05/31/16 - Amended Senate pdf May 31, 2016
• Amended 04/27/16 - Amended Senate pdf April 27, 2016
• Amended 04/12/16 - Amended Senate pdf April 12, 2016
• Amended 03/29/16 - Amended Senate pdf March 29, 2016
• Introduced 02/18/16 - Introduced pdf February 18, 2016
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Action History

1. September 29, 2016

   Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 842, Statutes of 2016.

2. September 29, 2016

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 09, 2016

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

4. August 31, 2016

   Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5598.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

5. August 31, 2016

   In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

6. August 31, 2016

   Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6544.) Ordered to the Senate.

7. August 31, 2016

   Ordered to third reading.

8. August 31, 2016

   From consent calendar.

9. August 31, 2016

   Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

10. August 30, 2016

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

11. August 30, 2016

    From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 30).

12. August 19, 2016

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

13. August 19, 2016

    Ordered to third reading.

14. August 19, 2016

    Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5952.)

15. August 08, 2016

    Ordered to third reading.

16. August 08, 2016

    From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.

17. August 04, 2016

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

18. August 03, 2016

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3).

19. June 30, 2016

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

20. June 16, 2016

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

21. June 13, 2016

    Referred to Com. on U. & C.

22. June 02, 2016

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

23. June 02, 2016

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4149.) Ordered to the Assembly.

24. May 31, 2016

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

25. May 31, 2016

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

26. May 27, 2016

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4006.) (May 27).

27. May 20, 2016

    Set for hearing May 27.

28. May 16, 2016

    May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

29. May 06, 2016

    Set for hearing May 16.

30. April 27, 2016

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

31. April 26, 2016

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3594.) (April 19).

32. April 12, 2016

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

33. April 01, 2016

    Set for hearing April 19.

34. March 31, 2016

    April 5 hearing postponed by committee.

35. March 29, 2016

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

36. March 17, 2016

    Set for hearing April 5.

37. March 16, 2016

    March 29 hearing postponed by committee.

38. March 09, 2016

    Set for hearing March 29.

39. March 03, 2016

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

40. February 19, 2016

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.

41. February 18, 2016

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

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• Hertzberg · Primary

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