Steve Bennett
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 38
Author
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to submit amendments, revisions, or modifications of its Rules of Practice and Procedure to the Office of Administrative Law for prior review, but exempts from that requirement general orders, resolutions, or other substantive regulations. This bill would clarify that regulations and guidelines related to the California Environmental Quality Act are also exempt from that requirement. Existing law prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning the construction of, among other things, a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require that construction. Under existing law, the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility, including transmission lines and substations, does not require a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity requires or will require its construction. This bill would authorize the commission to adopt specified successor guidelines at a publicly noticed meeting to address its receipt and review of and actions on applications for the construction of electrical transmission facilities, as described, subject to its regulatory jurisdiction, as provided. The bill would prohibit a cause of action arising out of an executive director disposition of a protest to a specified notice of proposed construction deemed exempt from the requirement to submit an application for a permit or certificate for electrical transmission facilities from accruing in any court to any entity or person unless the entity or person has filed an application to the commission for a rehearing within 10 days after the date of issuance of the disposition. The bill would require the commission to issue its decision and order on rehearing within 90 days after the filing of that application.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 299, Statutes of 2024.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
Ordered to third reading.
From Special consent calendar by Senator Becker
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15).
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 18. Noes 0.) (July 2).
Measure version as amended on June 10 corrected.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1811.).
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 17).
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 25).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB551 | HTML |
| 02/08/23 - Introduced | |
| 04/06/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/27/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/10/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/03/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/15/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/05/24 - Enrolled | |
| 09/20/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/14/23- Assembly Human Services | |
| 04/21/23- Assembly Health | |
| 05/15/23- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 06/19/23- Senate Health | |
| 06/30/23- Senate Human Services | |
| 06/28/24- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications | |
| 08/04/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/15/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/19/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/31/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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