Sharon Quirk-Silva
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 67
Author
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies. Existing law authorizes the commission to impose a surcharge, until December 31, 2032, to collect up to $150,000,000 per year for deposit into the CASF. Existing law requires the commission to establish specified accounts within the CASF, including the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account to fund the deployment of broadband infrastructure and the Federal Funding Account to fund last-mile broadband projects, as specified. This bill would expressly authorize otherwise eligible wireless broadband service providers to receive funding from the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account and the Federal Funding Account. The bill would, for purposes of the Federal Funding Account, require the commission to review completed applications within a review period, to document the basis for denial of an application, to authorize the amendment and resubmission of denied applications for consideration in a future review period, and to periodically establish an application deadline. The bill would, for purposes of the Federal Funding Account, authorize the commission to adopt affordability requirements for a recipient of a grant. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 281 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by AB 1426 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1426 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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 above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vetoed by Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).
Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5074.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11).
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 27).
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. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4952.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 19).
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
Introduced. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB2749 | HTML |
| 02/18/22 - Introduced | |
| 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/15/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/01/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/17/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/29/22 - Enrolled |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/26/22- Assembly Communications and Conveyance | |
| 05/10/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/24/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/24/22- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications | |
| 08/05/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/17/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/19/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/24/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 10/10/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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