Bill Dodd
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 3
Author
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires electrical corporations to construct, maintain, and operate their electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by those electrical lines and equipment. This bill would require those actions to take into account both the time required to implement the proposed mitigations and the amount of risk reduced for the cost and risk remaining. Existing law requires electrical corporations to annually prepare and submit their wildfire mitigation plan to the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety for review and approval. Existing law requires the wildfire mitigation plans to include, among other things, a description of preventive strategies and programs to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire, including consideration of dynamic climate change risk, a list that identifies, describes, and prioritizes all wildfire risks, and drivers for those risks, throughout the electrical corporation's service territory, and a description of where and how the electrical corporation considered undergrounding electrical distribution lines within those areas of its service territory with the highest wildfire risk, as specified. This bill would revise those wildfire mitigation plan requirements to, among other things, require the preventive strategies and programs to also include consideration of their cost effectiveness, as specified, and the relative reduction of exposure to wildfire risk caused by variations in implementation timelines for the preventive strategies and programs, require the list to also include particular risks and risk drivers associated with the speed in which wildfire risk mitigation measures can and will be deployed by the electrical corporation, require the presentation of certain cost-effectiveness measures adopted by the commission, and require the electrical corporation to explain the reasonableness of the mitigation selected in the description of where and how the electrical corporation considered undergrounding electrical distribution lines, as specified. Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. To the extent that the commission would issue an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement to implement this bill, a violation of which 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.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
June 19 hearing postponed by committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4024.) Ordered to the Assembly.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3967.) (May 16).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Set for hearing May 16.
April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing April 15.
April 8 hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing April 8.
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 17. Noes 0. Page 3349.) (March 19).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
Set for hearing March 19.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB1003 | HTML |
| 02/01/24 - Introduced | |
| 03/07/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 03/21/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/03/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/20/24 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/15/24- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications | |
| 04/12/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/17/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/28/24- Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy |
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