Energy and Utilities

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Public Utilities Commission/Energy Commission

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SB 37 (De León-D) Energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades

Enacts the California Clean Energy Consumer Access Act of 2013 and authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to require an electrical or gas corporation with 250,000 or more service connections to develop and implement an on-bill repayment program providing financial assistance for energy efficiency, renewable energy, distributed generation, or demand response improvements by allowing for the repayment of the financial assistance to be included in the utility customer's utility bill.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 38 (De León-D) Electrical restructuring

Repeals or modifies several sections of the Public Utilities Code which were added in 1996 as part of statutes enacted to deregulate electricity.
Vetoed

SB 48 (Hill-D) Public utilities: research and development projects

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to conduct an independent expert review, as specified, to inform findings supporting any inclusion of research and development expenses in electricity rates by Commission-regulated utilities.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 115 (Hill-D) Public Utilities Commission: Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act

Authorizes an action to enforce the requirements of the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act to be brought against the Public Utilities Commission in the superior court.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 418 (Jackson-D) Energy: nuclear fission powerplants

Requires a detailed study of project needs and costs to be provided to the Public Utilities Commission when requesting ratepayer funding for a nuclear power plant seeking relicensing from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 434 (Hill-D) Public Utilities Commission: removal of a commissioner

Expands the prohibition of a sitting Public Utilities Commission Commissioner from acting as an owner, director, or officer of a non-state entity of existing non-state entities created before 1/1/14, to those created by future actions of the Commission.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2014

SB 456 (Padilla-D) Disclosure of sources of electrical generation

Adds two categories of fuel source information to the Power Content Label: energy storage and out-of-state generation.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 489 (Fuller-R) Water corporations: sewer system corporations

Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to enter into an agreement with another water corporation or qualified entity to serve as an interim operator of a water system and provides that the interim operator shall have the powers of a receiver. Authorizes the Commission to approve the sale of the water corporation to a new owner without any court involvement.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 636 (Hill-D) Public Utilities Commission: proceedings

Prohibits any Public Utilities Commission employee, agent or officer that is personally involved in the prosecution or in the supervision of an adjudication case from participating in, or advising the Commission on, the decision of that case or the decision of a factually related proceeding.
Chapter 548, Statutes of 2014

SB 699 (Hill-D) Electricity: electrical corporations

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to consider adopting rules to address physical security risks to the distribution systems of electrical corporations.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2014

SB 711 (Padilla-D) Public Utilities Commission: fees

Permits the Public Utilities Commission to charge up to $500 for filing a certificate of public convenience and necessity as specified, and clarifies that all fees and charges collected be deposited into the Commission's Utilities Reimbursement Account rather than into the state General Fund.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 715 (Lara-D) Renewable energy resources: municipal solid waste combustion

Defines two additional municipal solid waste combustion facilities from Los Angeles County as eligible for the Renewable Portfolio Standard credit and requires the facilities to convert to non-combustion facilities by 2045 or forfeit eligibility for credit.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 760 (Wright-D) California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program

Revises and adds sections to the Renewables Portfolio Standard Program and provides that each electrical corporation shall consider the best-fit attributes of resource types that ensure a balanced resource mix to maintain the reliability of the electrical grid, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 900 (Hill-D) Public utilities: rate case application: safety

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop formal procedures, as specified, and to consider safety in a rate case application by an electrical corporation or gas corporation.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2014

SB 936 (Monning-D) Utilities

Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to allow the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District and other financing entities to issue water rate relief bonds to finance water supply infrastructure.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2014

SB 1064 (Hill-D) Public Utilities Commission: railroads: natural gas pipeline

Enacts provisions applicable to the National Transportation Safety Board safety recommendations and the Federal Transit Administration safety advisories concerning rail facilities, as specified.
Chapter 557, Statutes of 2014

SB 1078 (Jackson-D) Electricity: emissions of greenhouse gases

Requires, if the Air Resources Board establishes a post-2020 statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit beyond the 1990 greenhouse gas emissions level, as authorized or required by the Legislature, the Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission to convene a joint public proceeding to develop and make recommendations to the Board for compliance actions for the electricity and natural gas sectors to help achieve that limit, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1090 (Fuller-R) Electricity: rates: default time-of-use pricing

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to first explicitly consider evidence addressing the extent to which hardship will be caused to customers living in hot, inland areas before authorizing electrical corporations to impose default time-of-use residential rates.
Chapter 625, Statutes of 2014

SB 1277 (Steinberg-D) Electricity: electrical restructuring: System Operator

Requires the Independent System Operator to obtain the concurrence of the Public Utilities Commission before submitting any tariff to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to implement a new auction- or market-based mechanism for ensuring that sufficient resources are procured to meet California's electricity needs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1286 (Corbett-D) 21st Century Energy System Decision

Limits total funding for research and development projects for the purposes of cyber security and grid integration from exceeding $60 million.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1364* (Fuller-R) Telecommunications universal service programs

Extends the repeal date of the California High-Cost Fund-A program and California High-Cost Fund-B program until 1/1/19.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2014

SB 1371 (Leno-D) Natural gas: leakage abatement

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a proceeding to adopt rules and procedures that minimize natural gas leaks from Commission-regulated gas pipeline facilities, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2014

SB 1389 (Hill-D) Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011

Prohibit the use of historic operating pressures to determine the maximum allowable operating pressure for an intrastate gas pipeline.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1409 (Hill-D) Public Utilities Commission: safety investigations

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to publish an annual report that includes descriptions of investigations into gas or electric safety incidents reported by any gas or electric corporations; and requires the Commission to publish in its annual work plan a summary of these investigations, including those that remain open, along with a link to an Internet Web site containing the annual safety investigation report.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2014

SB 1414 (Wolk-D) Electricity: demand response

Requires utilities and regulators to include demand response in resource adequacy plans, as specified.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2014

AB 29 (Williams-D) Proposition 39: implementation

Requires the California Energy Commission to administer, as specified, grants, loans, or other financial assistance to the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges for projects that create jobs in California by reducing energy demand and consumption at eligible institutions.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 122 (Rendon-D) Energy improvements: financing

Requires the California Energy Commission to create a financing program for energy efficiency improvements in nonresidential real properties, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 177 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Renewable energy resources: electrical corporations

Requires the California Energy Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, the Natural Resources Agency and the Salton Sea Authority, to solicit and consider recommendations regarding development of renewable energy resources in the Salton Sea area.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 248 (Gorell-R) Energy: powerplants: Ventura County

Requires the Public Utilities Commission and the California Independent System Operator to prepare a specified report regarding the future of two aging power plants on the Ventura County coast.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 293 (Allen-R) Energy: California Clean Energy Jobs Act: implementation

Requires the California Energy Commission to develop a program to award funding for the purposes of the Clean Energy Jobs Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 448 (Quirk-D) Renewable energy resources

Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to include in its integrated energy policy report an assessment of the flexible capacity, to reliably operate the electrical system as energy resources are diversified, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 489 (Skinner-D) Energy: conservation

Allows state funds to be used to achieve energy efficiency improvements in existing buildings, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 612 (Nazarian-D) Charter-party carriers of passengers: permit requirements

Requires charter-party carriers to participate in the Department of Motor Vehicles Employer Pull Notice system and submit all drivers to a Department of Justice criminal background check.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 687 (Roger Hernández-D) Electricity

Gives public drinking water systems serving a disadvantaged community or a severely disadvantaged community the highest priority in acquiring electricity through direct access subscription for the treatment and remediation of contaminated groundwater.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 869 (Medina-D) Utilities: emergency response

Requires the Public Utilities Commission, gas corporations, and electric corporations, that provide gas or electric service to more than 5,000 customers, to develop and publish plans to respond to emergencies, including natural disasters, that have the potential to disrupt natural gas or electric service and cause damage, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 876 (Bonta-D) California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund

Expands eligibility of the Teleconnect program to include preschools and transitional kindergartens and requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop a feasibility plan for the establishment of a database of communication services purchased under the program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 923 (Bigelow-R) Public Utilities Commission: direct transaction proceedings

Requires the Public Utilities Commission, in a proceeding relating to direct transactions, to consider the federal restrictions on a preference power electricity provider, as defined, to engage in direct transactions.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 995 (Frazier-D) Public utilities: intervenor fees: customers

Makes changes to the current Intervenor Compensation Program administered by the Public Utilities Commission.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1258 (Skinner-D) Electricity: hydroelectric and pumped storage facilities

Requires the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state and federal agencies, electrical corporations and publicly owned utilities, to perform a technical analysis of the potential uses of existing hydro-electric and pumped storage facilities to provide additional operational flexibility to integrate eligible renewable energy sources, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1295 (Roger Hernández-D) Renewable energy: community renewables option

Requires electrical corporations to establish a program, by advice letter or an application, under which the customers of the state's electrical corporations can purchase generation directly from a "community renewable facility" at a rate determined between the facility and the customer.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1350 (Roger Hernández-D) Electricity: direct transactions

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt and implement a schedule that implements a second phase-in period for expanding specified direct transactions, over a reasonable time commencing not later than 7/1/14.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1361 (Bonilla-D) Public utilities: tariff schedules

Requires the rates, fares, charges, and classifications for the transportation of persons and property between termini within the state, to be made available for inspection upon the demand of any organization or government agency, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1366 (Allen-R) Charter-party carriers of passengers

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to include a summary of the specified results and conclusions in its annual report.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1406 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Energy: renewable energy resources

Eliminates two obsolete requirements in the California Renewables Portfolio Standard statutes.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1407 (Bradford-D) Public utilities: lifeline program

Phases out the existing lifeline program for basic landline service and creates a new lifeline discount of $11.85 per month for voice communication services from a telephone corporation or eligible wireless and Voice-over Internet Protocol providers. Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from requiring state lifeline providers to offer more than is required under the federal lifeline program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1408 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Distributed energy resources: tariffs

Deletes the reference to the report the Public Utilities Commission is required to prepare and submit to the Legislature on or before 6/1/02, that describes its proposed methodology for determining the new rates and the process by which it will establish those rates.
(Died in Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1434 (Yamada-D) Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program

Requires the Department of Community Services and Development, in collaboration with the Board of Equalization, by 1/1/16, to develop a plan for the funding and implementation of a program to provide funding assistance for water service to households with less than 200% of the federal poverty guideline level.
(Died in Senate Appropriation Committee)

AB 1499 (Skinner-D) Electricity: self-generation incentive program

Extends the funding and administration of the Self-Generation Incentive Program for three years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1601 (Stone-D) Public utilities: information: confidentiality

Authorizes a public utility, a subsidiary or affiliate of the public utility, or a corporation holding a controlling interest in a public utility providing information to request the Public Utilities Commission to withhold from public disclosure all or a portion of the information provided, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1624 (Gordon-D) Self-generation incentive program

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to require electrical corporations to continue collecting the self-generation incentive program for distributed energy resources originally established through and including 12/31/20, and to administer the program through and including 12/31/21, as specified.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1678 (Gordon-D) Women/minority/disabled veteran/LGBT business enterprises

Extends provisions of the Supplier Diversity Program at the Public Utilities Commission to include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender business enterprises.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2014

AB 1693 (Perea-D) Small independent telephone corporations: rates

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to issue a final decision on a general rate case of a small independent telephone corporate within a specified timeframe.
Vetoed

AB 1763 (Perea-D) State energy plan for 2030 and 2050

Requires the California Energy Commission to prepare a state energy plan for 2030 and 2050, as specified.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1918 (Williams-D) Energy: design and construction standards

Requires the California Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission to take actions and implement programs to improve compliance with State Building Standard Code compliance.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1935 (Campos-D) Electricity: clean distributed energy resources

Adds clean distributed energy resources to a study regarding distributed generation impacts and create a new definition for "clean distributed energy resources."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1937 (Gordon-D) Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011: school and hospital

Requires a gas corporation to provide at least three-days' notice to a school or hospital prior to performing excavation construction of gas pipeline maintenance or testing of the work is located within 500 feet of a school or hospital.
Chapter 287, Statutes of 2014

AB 1953 (Skinner-D) Higher Education Energy Efficiency Act: financial assistance

Requires the Energy Commission to consult with the Public Utilities Commission, the President of the University of California, and the Chancellor of the California State University to expand existing partnerships in order to prioritize projects based on greenhouse gas reductions and allow specified facilities to receive funds under the Higher Education Energy Efficiency Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2017 (Muratsuchi-D) Energy: financing: rental properties

Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to require electrical or gas corporations to implement an on bill repayment program to improve energy efficiency for rental properties
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2045 (Rendon-D) Energy improvements: financing

Establishes the Nonresidential Real Property Energy Retrofit Financing Act of 2014, which creates a financing program administered by the California Energy Commission that uses revenue bonds to facilitate private financial assistance to owners of nonresidential property to implement energy efficient improvements and renewable energy generation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2068 (Nazarian-D) Charter-party carriers of passengers

Requires the Public Utility Commission to develop a standard disclosure agreement with specified insurance disclosures, and requires the agreement to be included in a written agreement between drivers and charter-party carriers of passengers that use an online-enabled application or platform to connect passengers with drivers, and to be signed by those drivers.
(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 2137 (Quirk-D) Energy efficiency programs: small business

Requires the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to include a link to the Energy Upgrade California Internet Web site on its homepage.
Chapter 290, Statutes of 2014

AB 2145 (Bradford-D) Electricity: community choice aggregation

Places new requirements and restrictions on the establishment of, and activities by, community choice aggregators.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2159 (Ammiano-D) Electrical corporations: community choice aggregation

Authorizes the board of supervisors of a city and county to elect to enter into an agreement to implement a community choice aggregation program, allow over-the-fence transactions, and requires an electrical corporation to provide electrical consumption data to community choice aggregators.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2218 (Bradford-D) Electricity and natural gas rates

Requires electrical and gas corporations to develop and implement a program of rate assistance to eligible food banks, subject to discretion and supervision by the Public Utilities Commission.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2014

AB 2224 (Nazarian-D) Transportation network companies: insurance coverage

Defines "transportation network company" by excluding the requirement that a transportation network company trip be prearranged and would provide that the Public Utilities Commission shall require a transportation network company to have in effect a primary commercial motor vehicle liability insurance policy to cover the vehicles of its participating drivers, as part of its agreement with those drivers, with respect to personal injury liability, property damage liability, and personal injury protection liability benefits available to drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and others, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2229 (Bradford-D) Energy efficiency: military bases and facilities

Mandates that the Public Utilities Commission, through 2019, approve financial incentives for energy efficiency upgrades at military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard facilities, and expedites implementation of energy efficiency measures.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 2272 (Gray-D) Public works: prevailing wage

Establishes that infrastructure projects funded by the California Advanced Services Fund are "public works" projects.
Chapter 900, Statutes of 2014

AB 2293 (Bonilla-D) Transportation network companies: insurance coverage

Beginning 7/1/15, amends the Passenger Charter-Party Carriers' Act to require liability insurance coverage for transportation network companies and their drivers.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2014

AB 2334 (Gray-D) Electricity rates: economic development pilot program

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to direct and supervise the establishment of an economic development pilot program by electrical corporations to provide electrical rate discounts for businesses located at former military bases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2363 (Dahle-R) Electricity procurement

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt by 12/31/15, a methodology for determining expenses resulting from integrating and operating eligible renewable energy resources, i.e., "integration costs," and requires the Commission to direct electrical corporations to include integration costs in their proposed procurement plans.
Chapter 610, Statutes of 2014

AB 2529 (Williams-D) Energy: usage: plug-in equipment

Requires the California Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission to perform a baseline study of energy usage by plug-in equipment and develop an implementation plan to achieve specified reductions by 2030.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2581 (Bradford-D) Energy: appliance standards: public domain computer program

Makes various changes to the requirements regarding appliance standards, modeling of building energy efficiencies, and modeling of predicted energy efficiency savings.
Vetoed

AB 2597 (Ting-D) Energy: PACE program

Modifies the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority's underwriting standard for the Property Assessed Clean Energy program by providing that financing cannot exceed 15% for the first $700,000 of the value of the property and 10% for the remaining value of the property, and substitutes the term "loan" with "financing" within various parts of the program.
Chapter 614, Statutes of 2014

AB 2649 (Mullin-D) Public utilities: military installations

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine criteria, by 4/1/15, that allows certain renewable generation resources on specified military installations to apply for expedited review of its interconnection application.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2661 (Bradford-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflicts of interest: Energy

Moves the conflict of interest provisions related to the California Energy Commission, from the Public Resources Code into the Political Reform Act and also revises the limitations on appointments to the Commission if the appointee received income from a load serving entity in the two years prior to his/her appointment.
Vetoed

AB 2672 (Perea-D) Access to energy: disadvantaged communities

Requires the Public Utilities Commission by 3/31/15, to initiate a new proceeding to identify disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley meeting specified requirements and to analyze economically feasible options to increase access to affordable energy in those disadvantaged communities.
Chapter 616, Statutes of 2014

AB 2695 (Patterson-R) Electricity: billing disclosures

Requires the Energy Commission to develop guidelines for local publicly owned electric utilities on the development of an easy-to-understand chart breaking down all the costs reflected in the retail price of electricity charged by the utilities that would be included in the billing statements for their residential customers and posted on their Internet Web sites.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2761 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public Utilities Commission: report: renewable energy

Modifies two existing reporting requirements of the Public Utilities Commission concerning costs of the Renewables Portfolio Standard program including conforming the reporting dates of the two reports to May 1, instead of the current February 1 deadline.
Chapter 299, Statutes of 2014

Renewable/Efficiency

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SB 715 (Lara-D) Renewable energy resources: municipal solid waste combustion

Defines two additional municipal solid waste combustion facilities from Los Angeles County as eligible for the Renewable Portfolio Standard credit and requires the facilities to convert to non-combustion facilities by 2045 or forfeit eligibility for Renewable Portfolio Standard credit.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 760 (Wright-D) California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program

Revises several sections of the Renewables Portfolio Standard to emphasize reliability and favor procurement of geothermal energy.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 871* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Property taxes: active solar energy system

Extends the sunset for a solar tax exemption for new active solar energy systems on new construction.
Chapter 41, Statutes of 2014

SB 1139 (Hueso-D) California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program

Mandates that retail sellers procure a proportionate share of a statewide total of 500 megawatts of electricity generated by base-load geothermal power plants constructed after 1/1/15.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

AB 122 (Rendon-D) Energy improvements: financing

Enacts the Nonresidential Real Property Energy Retrofit Financing Act of 2014 and requires the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to establish the Nonresidential Real Property Energy Retrofit Financing Program, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 177 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Renewable energy resources: electrical corporations

Requires the California Energy Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, the Natural Resources Agency and the Salton Sea Authority, to solicit and consider recommendations regarding development of renewable energy resources in the Salton Sea area.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 407 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Renewable energy resources: Salton Sea

Requires the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and the Independent System Operator, to convene a stakeholders group to identify impediments and recommended steps that should be taken to properly maintain, develop, integrate, and transmit electricity generated by eligible renewable energy resources located in and around the Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area and the Geysers Geothermal Field.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 427 (Mullin-D) Electrical corporations: uneconomic cost recovery

Exempts electrical corporation customers who use bottoming cycle waste heat recovery from all nonbypassable charges.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 448 (Quirk-D) Renewable energy resources

Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to include in its integrated energy policy report an assessment of the flexible capacity, to reliably operate the electrical system as energy resources are diversified. Requires the assessment to include an evaluation of how any change in flexible capacity, to accommodate energy resource diversification, impacts various aspects of the electrical system.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 627 (Gorell-R) State government: energy-independent facilities

Requires a state agency, department, or commission, if it is evaluating the construction of a new building or facility, or the transfer or renewal of a lease for a building or facility, to consider as a top priority in making that decision whether a net-zero energy consumption building or facility, also known as an energy-independent building or facility, can be constructed or occupied, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee)

AB 687 (Roger Hernández-D) Electricity: renewable

Gives public drinking water systems serving a disadvantaged community or a severely disadvantaged community the highest priority in acquiring electricity through direct access subscription for the treatment and remediation of contaminated groundwater.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 762 (Patterson-R) Renewable energy resources: hydroelectric generation

Revises the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource for the purposes of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard to include a hydroelectric generation facility of any size.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1258 (Skinner-D) Electricity: hydroelectric and pumped storage facilities

Requires the California Energy Commission, in consultation with other state and federal agencies, electrical corporations and publicly owned utilities, to perform a technical analysis of the potential uses of existing hydroelectric and pumped storage facilities to provide additional operational flexibility to integrate eligible renewable energy sources into the grid.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1475 (Assembly Budget Committee) Property taxes: active solar energy system

Extends the sunset for a solar tax exemption for new active solar energy systems on new construction.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1478 (Assembly Budget Committee) Public resources

Makes various technical adjustments to the resources, environmental protection, energy, and agriculture 2014 Budget actions.
Chapter 664, Statutes of 2014

AB 1499 (Skinner-D) Electricity: self-generation incentive program

Extends the funding and administration of the Self-Generation Incentive Program for three years, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2584 (Nestande-R) Electricity: wind energy co-metering

Requires Southern California Edison to interconnect a 1.5 megawatts wind turbine located at the United States Marine Corp Logistics Base, Barstow.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2760 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public utilities: contracting

Clarifies applicability of the minority, women, and disabled veteran business enterprises procurement for renewable energy providers by adding a definition that references the existing definition of renewable energy in the Renewable Energy Portfolio statute.
Chapter 542, Statutes of 2014

ACR 142 (Fox-D) City of Lancaster: solar energy

Designates the City of Lancaster as the California Alternative Energy Research and Development Center.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

ACR 174 (Nestande-R) California Solar Professionals Day

Declares 11/8/14, as California Solar Professionals Day.
Resolution Chapter 185, Statutes of 2014

Telecommunications

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SB 433 (Lara-D) Emergencies: the State 911 Advisory Board

Deletes from the State 911 Advisory Board, that four of the members shall serve an initial term of three years, as specified.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 828 (Lieu-D) Assistance to federal agencies

Prohibits the State of California from helping a federal agency to collect the electronically stored information or metadata of any person if the state has actual knowledge that the request constitutes an illegal or unconstitutional collection of that information.
Chapter 861, Statutes of 2014

SB 962 (Leno-D) Smartphones

Requires smartphones manufactured after 7/7/15, and sold in California to contain a technological solution at the time of sale that will render the essential features of the smartphone inoperable when not in the possession of the authorized user, and also provides a civil penalty for violations and limits retail liability if the solution is circumvented.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2014

SB 1364* (Fuller-R) Telecommunications universal service programs

Extends the repeal date of the California High-Cost Fund-A program and California High-Cost Fund-B program until 1/1/19.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2014

AB 876 (Bonta-D) California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund

Expands eligibility of the Teleconnect program to include preschools and transitional kindergartens and require the Public Utilities Commission to develop a feasibility plan for the establishment of a database of communication services purchased under the program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 911 (Bloom-D) Telephone systems: 911

Requires that a 911 call made from a telephone station of a multi-line telephone service, in areas where enhanced 911 is available, to be routed with information specific to the building and floor location of the caller.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1100 (Levine-D) California Teleconnect Fund Administration Committee Fund

Eliminates the cap on the discounts California Community Colleges may receive from the California Teleconnect Fund to provide affordable telecommunications services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1717* (Perea-D) Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services

Creates a point of sale mechanism to collect surcharges for the state's universal service programs, 911 emergency response system, the Public Utilities Commission's user fee, and local utility users taxes on prepaid mobile telephony services.
Chapter 885, Statutes of 2014

AB 1876 (Quirk-D) Jails and juvenile facilities: telephone service contracts

Prohibits commissions in telephone service contracts for jails and juvenile facilities, as specified; requires such contracts to be negotiated and awarded to the lowest cost provider; and requires all current telephone contracts that provide telephone services to any person detained or sentenced to a jail or juvenile facility to be amended to eliminate commissions and other payments on or before 1/1/16.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

Miscellaneous

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SB 548 (Roth-D) Public utilities: renewables portfolio standard

Provides that for a publicly owned electric utility in existence on or before 1/1/10, that provides 200,000 megawatt-hours or fewer of electricity to retail end-use consumers in its service territory during a calendar year, electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources may be used for compliance with the portfolio content requirements.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1211 (Padilla-D) Emergency services: Next Generation 911

Requires the Office of Emergency Services to develop a plan and timeline of target dates for testing, implementing, and operating a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911 service, throughout California, as specified.
Chapter 926, Statutes of 2014

SB 1270 (Pavley-D) Surface mining operations

Creates the Division of Mines within the Department of Conservation, which will be responsible for the Department's role under mining laws, and amends the roles of the State Mining and Geology Board so that it is an appeals and rule-making body.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1275 (De León-D) Vehicle retirement and replacement

Establishes the Charge Ahead California Initiative to provide incentives that increase the availability of zero-emission vehicles and near-zero-emission vehicles, particularly in disadvantaged and low-and-moderate-income communities.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2014

SB 1289 (Fuller-R) Off-highway motor vehicle recreation: land transfer

Authorizes the State Lands Commission to transfer to the Department of Parks and Recreation unidentified parcels of land owned by the state adjacent to the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area for off-highway motor vehicle recreation.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1398 (Cannella-R) Flood control activities: Salinas River

Defines "maintenance activities" to mean activities specified in a plan for flood control purposes along the Salinas River in the County of Monterey if specified requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1424 (Wolk-D) State property: tidelands transfer: City of Martinez

Grants state trust lands to the City of Martinez in exchange for a revenue-sharing agreement with the state.
Chapter 628, Statutes of 2014

SCR 90 (Hueso-D) Tijuana River Valley Recovery Team

Declares the Legislature's intent to work with the Tijuana River Valley Recovery Team to take various actions to protect and preserve the Tijuana River Valley, to encourage collaboration with the team to protect and enhance our natural resources through improved management of sediment and trash, flood control, ecosystem management, and recreation and education, and to promote bilateral ties with Mexico that will be beneficial to the enhancement of one of California's most resilient ecosystems.
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2014

SCR 108 (Evans-D) Geothermal Awareness Month and Geothermal Awareness Day

Recognizes the month of May 2014, as Geothermal Awareness Month and 5/5/14, as Geothermal Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2014

SJR 20 (Leno-D) Safeguard Our Coast Day

Recognizes the 50th anniversary of the state's leadership and innovation in coastal planning and management and proclaims 1/16/15, and each third Monday of February thereafter, as "Safeguard Our Coast Day."
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2014

AB 365 (Mullin-D) Electricity: distributed generation

Makes legislative findings and declarations as to clean onsite electricity generation and nonbypassable charges.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 874 (Williams-D) Public utilities: unionization

Prohibits investor-owned electrical corporations from using funds from utility rates to assist or deter union organizing.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 930 (Hall-D) Enterprise zones: energy management plans

Amends the Enterprise Zone Act to authorize a city, county, or city and county to develop energy management plans with an electrical corporation, gas corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, or rural electric cooperative, serving an enterprise zone other than an enterprise zone within a harbor or port district formed pursuant to specified law, in order to reduce air emissions, to promote economic development, to increase new business, and to retain existing businesses in that enterprise zone.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1073 (Torres-D) Emergency services: utility access

Requires the Office of Emergency Services to develop a universal insignia, on or before 1/1/15, for display on badges worn by a properly qualified and certified utility worker or technician that enables the person to gain access to a location subject to a disaster or other emergency to provide vital utility services, as specified.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1079 (Bradford-D) Economic development: energy management area and plans

Provides a framework for a local government to designate an energy management area for which it may develop an energy management plan, in collaboration with an electrical or gas corporation, to assist with either the stimulation of development or local manufacturing.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1228 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Electricity: eligible fuel cell customer-generators

Increases the capacity of a fuel cell electrical generating facility, operating under a Net Energy Metering tariff, from one megawatt to not more than three megawatts and makes other specified changes.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1362 (Ting-D) Education technology

Defines "digital divide project" to include the teaching of computer programming and digital literacy skills to youth from underprivileged communities and underrepresented populations in technology careers.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2227 (Quirk-D) Citizens Oversight Board: implementation

Establishes procedures and guidance for the Citizens Oversight Board created by the California Clean Energy Jobs Act.
Chapter 683, Statutes of 2014

AB 2441 (Mullin-D) Electricity: distributed generation

Establishes a 500 megawatts program under which electric generation technologies on the customer's side of the electric meter fueled with natural gas are exempted from nonbypassable and departing load charges.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2711* (Muratsuchi-D) Oil and gas: loan to City of Hermosa Beach

Loans the City of Hermosa Beach $11.5 million to pay the liability it will incur if City voters reject a November 2014 local ballot initiative to approve an offshore oil lease on City tidelands.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 39 (Roger Hernández-D) Cable and video service

Urges the U.S. Congress to amend a specified federal law to allow states and their municipalities to determine the best use of public, educational, and government channel support.
Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2014

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Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.