Al Muratsuchi
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 66
Author
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The Public Utilities Act authorizes the commission to ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or service to be furnished, imposed, observed, and followed by specified public utilities, including all electrical corporations. If the commission finds after a hearing that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of any public utility, or of the methods of manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage, or supply employed by the public utility, are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate, or insufficient, the act requires that the commission determine and, by order or rule, fix the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, service, or methods to be observed, furnished, constructed, enforced, or employed. 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. This bill would require the commission to require an electrical corporation to include in annual reliability reports, required by a specified decision of the commission, that are due after July 1, 2014, information on the reliability of service to end use customers that identifies the frequency and duration of interruptions in services and indicates areas with both the most frequent and longest outages, using local areas determined by the commission. The bill would require the commission to use the information to require cost-effective remediation of reliability deficiencies if the report, or more than one report, identifies repeated deficiencies in the same local area and would authorize the commission to suspend this requirement upon specified findings. The bill would require the electrical corporations to conspicuously post their annual reports on their Internet Web site. Because a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the definition of a crime. 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.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 578, Statutes of 2013.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3071.).
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2242.).
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30).
In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18).
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.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 1660.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (April 29).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB66 | HTML |
| 01/07/13 - Introduced | |
| 03/14/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/08/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/11/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/25/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/12/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/03/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/16/13 - Enrolled | |
| 10/05/13 - Chaptered |
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