Steve Padilla
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 18
Author
The California Constitution and the Public Utilities Act vest the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over electrical corporations and water corporations. The act requires the commission to ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of electrical corporations. This bill would additionally require the commission to ensure that those errors do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of water corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in establishing rates for water service, to consider separate charges for costs associated with customer service, facilities, variable operating costs, or other components of the water service provided to water users. Existing law requires the commission to consider, and authorizes the commission to authorize, a water corporation to establish programs, including rate designs, for achieving conservation of water and recovering the cost of these programs through the rates, as provided. This bill would, for purposes of the above-described rates for water service, require that any changes to rates or implementation of surcharges in accordance with the above-described requirement on the commission to ensure errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of water corporations do not result in revenues above those approved by the commission. Under existing law, a violation of the act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the above requirements 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.
Coauthors revised.
August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1443.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1201.) (May 23).
Set for hearing May 23.
May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 5.
April 28 hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing April 28.
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 15. Noes 0. Page 681.) (April 7).
Set for hearing April 7.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB473 | HTML |
| 02/19/25 - Introduced | |
| 04/10/25 - Amended Senate |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/04/25- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications | |
| 05/02/25- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/25/25- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 07/15/25- Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy | |
| 08/18/25- Assembly Appropriations |
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