Henry Stern
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 27
Author
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires an electrical corporation to construct, maintain, and operate its electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by those electrical lines and equipment. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan to the PUC for review and approval, as specified. Following approval, the PUC is required to oversee an electrical corporation's compliance with the plans. This bill would require that an electrical corporation's wildfire mitigation plan identify circuits that have frequently been deenergized to mitigate the risk of wildfire and the measures taken, or planned to be taken, by the electrical corporation to reduce the need for, and impact of, future deenergization of those circuits, including the estimated annual decline in circuit deenergization and deenergization impact on customers, and replacing, hardening, or undergrounding any portion of the circuit or of upstream transmission or distribution lines. Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new 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 244, Statutes of 2021.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2612.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3017.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (August 26).
Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 30).
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1376.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1195.) (May 20).
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Set for hearing May 20.
May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 17.
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 9. Noes 2. Page 936.) (April 27).
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 27.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 842.) (April 19).
Set for hearing April 19.
April 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 12.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB533 | HTML |
| 02/17/21 - Introduced | |
| 03/05/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/26/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/29/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/20/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/01/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/01/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/14/21 - Enrolled | |
| 09/23/21 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/16/21- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications | |
| 04/26/21- Senate Judiciary | |
| 05/14/21- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/20/21- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/26/21- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/29/21- Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy | |
| 08/23/21- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/31/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/09/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/09/21- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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