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Energy

SB 116 (Peace-D) California Energy Commission: grant program

Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (California Energy Commission) to develop a solar energy systems grant program and provides for a funding source dependent on appropriated money in the annual budget act.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 286 (Mountjoy-R) Marinas: electric service

Transfers some electric power operating responsibilities to electric corporations, as it relates to marinas or small craft harbors.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 606 (Sher-D) Renewable energy resources

Makes technical changes to language governing the administration of public interest research development and demonstration programs and transition funding for renewable electric generating facilities.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 800 (Lewis-R) Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission

Abolishes the California Energy Commission, and transfers its functions to the California Public Utilities Commission.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 977 (Sher-D) Renewable energy purchases: customer credits

Further qualifies eligibility requirements for customer credits for purchases of in-state renewable energy generation depending upon the dates of offerings and other factors.

Chapter 1042, Statutes of 1998

SB 1216 (Costa-D) Biomass energy

Contains legislative findings and declarations regarding the Legislature's intent to implement methods of financial assistance to ensure the retention of the biomass industry after deregulation of the energy market.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1941 (Sher-D) Global climate change: greenhouse gas emissions

Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (California Energy Commission), in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to undertake various responsibilities related to greenhouse gas emissions inventory and public outreach.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2141 (O'Connell-D) Radiation: nuclear powerplants

Repeals, recasts and changes various provisions, including altering the responsibilities of state agencies, local governments, and utilities under the Radiation Protection Act, and the Emergency Services Act.

Chapter 543, Statutes of 1998

AB 263 (Baca-D) Energy resources: federal oil overcharge funds

Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds from the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account for a training program related to mobile emissions.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 277* (Ortiz-D) Energy resources: urban forestry projects

Appropriates $500,000 from an unspecified fund to the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) to be used for grants to nonprofit organizations for urban forestry projects, including the planting of trees and related costs.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 873* (Takasugi-R) Taxation: energy credits

Establishes personal income tax and bank and corporation tax credits for energy conservation measures installed on new buildings and for retrofitting existing structures for energy conservation. Specifies that the credits are to be 25% of the acquisition and installation or retrofitting costs for energy conservation measures.

(Failed passage in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1387 (Murray-D) Energy resources: federal oil overcharge funds

Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds from the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account to the California Energy Commission for the purpose of a grant to an unspecified entity to save money.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1567 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Energy resources: federal oil overcharge funds

Appropriates $1.2 million from the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account for the Highway 17/Interstate Route 880 SMART Corridor project in Santa Clara County.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1755 (Keeley-D) Solar and wind turbine energy systems

Reinstates the prior exemption of active solar energy systems from appraisal as new construction. Extends the electricity buy-back provisions of current law ("net metering") to small commercial customers, and accommodates electricity generated by wind turbines and hybrid solar/wind turbine systems.

Chapter 855, Statutes of 1998

AB 2192 (Kuehl-D) High-level radioactive materials and spent nuclear fuel

Establishes a specialized set of requirements that apply to the transport of spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive waste in California, covering such matters as emergency response in the event of accidents, trip planning, transportation safety, safety testing of shipping containers, and mandatory insurance for carriers.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2794* (Assembly Budget Committee) Energy resources: Budget augmentation

Appropriates $200,000 to the State Energy Commission, in augmentation of the 1998-99 State Budget, for development and support of Consumers Electric Users Cooperative. Appropriates $1 million for an Environmental, Energy, and Highway Research Test Fund.

Chapter 1050, Statutes of 1998 - Item Veto

AJR 50 (Kuehl-D) Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste

Memorializes Congress and the President of the United States to oppose legislation to establish a spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste interim storage site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

Utilities

SB 216 (Brulte-R) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Makes technical changes in provisions related to the restructuring of the electrical services industry. Intended to serve as a vehicle for modifications to the electric restructuring legislation.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 286 (Mountjoy-R) Marinas: electric service

Transfers some electric power operating responsibilities to electric corporations, as it relates to marina or small craft harbors

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 378 (Peace-D) Public utilities: telephones

Establishes protections intended to reduce the inclusion of unauthorized charges on a telephone customer's bill, a practice known as "cramming".

Chapter 1041, Statutes of 1998

SB 405 (Peace-D) Public utilities: telephones

Establishes customer notice requirements when a telephone corporation sells its long-distance customers to another telephone corporation.

Chapter 663, Statutes of 1998

SB 523 (Polanco-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to take specified measures prior to authorizing the unbundling of any distribution service of an electrical corporation.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 524 (Thompson-D) Electric and gas service: master-meter customers

Allows "master-meter" customers in mobilehome parks to engage in direct transactions with electricity suppliers, as specified.

(On Senate Unfinished Business File; rereferred to Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10; died in Committee)

SB 606 (Sher-D) Renewable energy resources: funding

Makes technical changes to language governing the administration of public interest research development and demonstration programs and transition funding for renewable electric generating facilities.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 714 (Solis-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Extends the time for adoption of specified performance and/or prescriptive standards relating to the restructuring of the electrical industry to July 1, 1999.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 779 (Calderon-D) PUC: Administrative Procedure Act: judicial review

Enacts the Calderon-Peace-MacBride Judicial Review Act of 1998 which makes several changes affecting the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) intended to generally expand both public access to PUC actions and proceedings and judicial review of PUC decisions. Appropriates $814,000 from the PUC Reimbursement Account to the PUC to implement its Internet site requirements.

Chapter 886, Statutes of 1998

SB 875 (Vasconcellos-D) Public utilities: vegetation management

Directs the California Public Utilities Commission to require each electrical corporation to develop a list of trees suitable for planting beneath electric power lines and notify customers of the benefit of using those trees.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 961 (Hughes-D) Telephone directories

Requires any entity that publishes a yellow page telephone directory to require each person or business entity that contracts for a business listing or advertisement to have either a specified authorization for engaging in the business, profession, or occupation listed or advertised or a seller's permit issued by the State Board of Equalization.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 962 (Hughes-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Makes a specific geothermal plant located in Nevada eligible for renewable transition subsidies designated for in-state renewable electricity producers.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1054 (Costa-D) Water and sewer systems: rates

Requires water and sewer utilities to provide a 45-day notice of impending specified rate increases to customers who so request notification, and allows utilities to charge the customers for these costs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1070 (Peace-D) Telecommunications: customer privacy

Prohibits a telephone corporation from offering or selling to a business customer any service that rejects a telephone call that does not reveal the caller's telephone number.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1142 (Calderon-D) Public Utilities Commission: judicial review

Provides for expanded judicial review of the California Public Utility Commission decisions.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1148 (Peace-D) Public utilities: telecommunications services

Vehicle for implementing solutions to the problems of an insufficient telecommunications infrastructure.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 1152 (Dills-D) Television: emergency broadcasts: hearing-impaired

States legislative intent to require closed captioning services for deaf and hearing-impaired throughout all live emergency broadcast alerts.

(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1172 (Burton-D) Public utilities

Authorizes an economic development program for new California businesses, which locate on military bases designated for closure, using competition transition charge exemption-based electricity rate discounts.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1552 (Rainey-R) Municipal utility districts: rates

Provides that in any court action challenging the validity of a municipal utility district's rates and charges, there shall be no presumption that the district's rates and charges are reasonable, fair, or lawful. Requires the court to exercise its independent judgment on the evidence.

(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1589* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State government administration

Makes general government changes reflected in the 1998-99 Budget Bill. Among other things, (1) expands the definition of public agencies for the purposes of entering into energy conservation contracts to include the State of California, and (2) requires the California Public Utilities Commission to approve divestiture or transfer of bayside fossil fueled electric generation and transmission facilities, as specified.

Chapter 328, Statutes of 1998

SB 1602* (Peace-D) Public Utilities Commission

Delays the ability of the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to enact any decisions to deregulate the natural gas industry for core customers until January 1, 2000, and requires the PUC to report to the Legislature should it find additional restructuring of the natural gas industry to be in the public interest.

Chapter 401, Statutes of 1998

SB 1614 (Rosenthal-D) Public utilities: gas corporations: rates

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to establish, for each gas corporation, a single rate schedule that applies to all transportation of gas used for the generation of electricity in the service territory of the gas corporation, including gas used for the generation of electricity in cogeneration and in in-state renewable generation technology.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1714 (Hayden-D) Public utilities: delay in electric restructuring

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to assess the short- and long-term cost impact on all orders related to electric industry restructuring, and to transmit copies of orders to specified committees of the Legislature.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1757* (Peace-D) Public Utilities Commission: utility customers

Delays further restructuring of natural gas service. Codifies language contained in the 1998 Budget Act related to California representation before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1781 (Peace-D) Public utilities: city-owned electric utilities

Requires city owned electric utilities to report, as specified, the amount of utility revenues to be transferred from the utility to special funds.

Chapter 628, Statutes of 1998

SB 1838 (Kopp-I) Public utilities: electric restructuring: BART

Exempts the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District's preference for federal power delivery from statutes and California Public Utilities Commission regulations governing direct access transactions related to electric power, and allows BART to obtain electric power from multiple sources at the same time.

Chapter 206, Statutes of 1998

SB 1908 (Vasconcellos-D) Taxation and the Internet

Requires the Legislative Analyst to prepare a report relating to the issue of federal, state and local taxation of business activities on the Internet.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1986 (Haynes-R) Administrative hearings: intervention

Requires parties appearing before the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) as intervenors on behalf of the public to disclose the source of income and contributions used to finance the intervention. Establishes principles regarding PUC intervenor compensation.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 2002 (Rosenthal-D) Overtime: telephone corporation employees

Prohibits telephone corporations with annual gross revenues over $200 million from requiring employees subject to collective bargaining agreements to work in excess of 8 hours per day or 40 hours per workweek, except as specified.

(Died in Senate Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 2008 (Kelley-R) Open meetings: closed sessions

Provides that, under certain circumstances, specified details of a California Public Utilities Commission agenda item need not be provided.

Chapter 210, Statutes of 1998

SB 2009 (Greene-D) Municipal utility districts: procurement

Authorizes a municipal utility district that serves electricity to more than 250,000 customers to procure information technology equipment, telecommunications equipment, metering equipment, microwave equipment, and other related electronic equipment and software in accordance with value-effective acquisition rules and regulations adopted by the district that may include specified criteria.

Chapter 144, Statutes of 1998

SB 2103 (Haynes-R) Recycled water

Establishes a process to increase the use of available recycled water, in lieu of higher quality potable water. Relates to the BKK Corporation and the City of West Covina water utility and the use of recycled water for irrigation and dust suppression on landfill sites undergoing postclosure.

Chapter 753, Statutes of 1998

SB 2150 (Peace-D) Public Utilities: telecommunications

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to commence a proceeding to consider whether to establish a new regulatory framework.

Chapter 266, Statutes of 1998

SB 2166 (Costa-D) Public utilities: services to tenant

Adds sewer services to the existing laws regarding public utilities and the furnishing of water service to tenants. Allows landlords to voluntarily allow water and sewer service to be billed to them, and municipal utilities could not refuse to furnish services to a tenant in the tenants name due to the nonpayment of charges by a former tenant.

Chapter 739, Statutes of 1998

SB 2204 (Calderon-D) Public utilities: electric lines: trees

Establishes a voluntary education and cooperative process to help ensure that trees of an appropriate maximum height are planted or maintained on public lands under or adjacent to power lines.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SCR 15 (Peace-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Creates a 6-member Joint Oversight Committee on Electricity Restructuring and Reform to oversee the implementation of recently enacted legislation relating to electrical restructuring and California Public Utilities Commission reform. Requires the joint oversight committee to report to the Legislature at the end of each legislative session and sunsets on June 30, 1998.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SR 16 (O'Connell-D) Cellular 911 Education Task Force

Resolves that it is in the best interests of the state and all state and local public safety and law enforcement agencies that comprise the state's emergency response system to recognize and encourage the continuing efforts of the Cellular 911 Education Task Force and its campaign to inform the public about the proper and effective use of cellular 911.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 284 (Baca-D) Telephone services

Rewords current slamming laws, and requires that after a telephone company verifies a residential customer's desire to switch companies, the telephone company must mail a notice of confirmation to the customer.

Chapter 672, Statutes of 1998

AB 306 (Kaloogian-R) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Includes "micro-generation" as a change in usage which partially exempts an electricity user from the competition transition charge.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 360* (Kuykendall-R) Public utilities

Modifies the definition of "special purpose trust" to facilitate the issuance of rate reduction bonds by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank. Requires electrical corporations to include the California Public Utilities Commission's e-mail address in notices of proposed rate changes.

(Died in Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 443* (Baca-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to take specified actions prior to authorizing the unbundling of any distribution service of an electrical corporation.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 487 (Leach-R) Unlisted telephone numbers: public records

Exempts unlisted or unpublished telephone numbers of customers which are made available to public entities only for public safety purposes (such as 911 and flood evacuation warning systems) from public inspection under the Public Records Act.

Chapter 13, Statutes of 1998

AB 554* (Papan-D) Telecommunications: traveler information telephone number

Allows San Mateo County to award contracts to one of the three lowest responsible bidders, rather than to the lowest responsible bidder.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 579 (Martinez-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Requires electrical rates to be reduced so that those customers receive an additional rate reduction of 10% on their electricity bills from the rates in effect for those customers on December 31, 1998. Prohibits the imposition of any tax, bond payment, surcharge, or other assessment on any electrical customer to pay for the rate reduction required by the bill.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 580 (Martinez-D) Telephones: billing practices

Requires all telephone corporations, including wireless and cellular, to bill in increments of ten seconds or less.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 581 (Martinez-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Requires any electrical corporation that collects a competition transition charge (CTC) to disclose to customers information relating to CTC collection and transition cost recovery.

(Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments)

AB 906 (Papan-D) Cellular telephone resellers

Requires facilities-based commercial mobile service providers that offer bulk or volume user rate plans to any customer to offer those plans on a nondiscriminatory basis and to resellers without restriction on the resale of those plans to the public. Restricts enforcement of this provision to civil action.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 909 (Thomson-D) Commercial mobile radio service emergency calls

Restates, as California law, existing federal regulation regarding free access and use of cellular phones for reaching "911" emergency services. Allows the California Highway patrol to enter into agreement with local public safety answering points for cellular "911" call routing.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 911 (Knox-D) Electric utility and telephone service suppliers

Allows the State Board of Equalization to require selected electric utilities and telephone service suppliers to post security deposits.

Chapter 649, Statutes of 1998

AB 1047 (Cardenas-D) Endangered species: taking: public utilities

Authorizes the State Department of Fish and Game to issue permits, or enter into memorandums of understandings, to authorize the taking of a candidate, threatened, or endangered species by public utilities or other public entities providing water, electricity, or gas services.

(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1096 (Martinez-D) Telephone services

Requires that a telephone company that unlawfully switches a subscriber's telephone carrier, be liable to the subscriber for an overcharge penalty of 10% of the total amount billed to the subscriber after the violation.

Chapter 671, Statutes of 1998

AB 1154 (Martinez-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Prohibits the inclusion of the uneconomic costs for nuclear generation assets in the competition transition charge. Deletes nuclear generation assets and settlement costs from transition costs that can be financed by rate reduction bonds.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1156 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Residential telephone wiring

Provides building owners with information about the location and character of the inside wiring in their building.

(Passage refused on Senate Floor)

AB 1158 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public utility services: customer satisfaction

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to report on the impact of the transition to competition on the quality of services provided by the utilities. Requires, based on the results of the report, the development of a system to log and track consumer complaints.

(Passage refused on Senate Floor)

AB 1161 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Telecommunications services

Requires telephone corporations to notify subscribers of all blocking options available to them, in order to prevent their names and numbers from being revealed via caller identification services.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1182 (Keeley-D) PUC: California-American Water Company

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to prepare a long-term contingency plan described in PUC Decision 98-08-036, in consultation with the California-American Water Company, the State Department of Water Resources, and other affected interests in the event the Carmel River Dam Project does not go forward.

Chapter 797, Statutes of 1998

AB 1299 (Machado-D) Public utilities: telecommunications services

Prohibits the California Public Utilities Commission from taking action that could harm economic development or adversely affect universal telephone service in rural or nonurban areas.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1424 (Martinez-D) Telecommunications: telephone cards

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to register companies that issue or sell prepaid telephone cards.

Chapter 799, Statutes of 1998

AB 1605 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public Utilities Commission: reports

Contains technical clean up on various provisions relating to the California Public Utilities Commission in an effort to update the codes. No policy changes were made.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1822 (Kaloogian-R) PUC: Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to adhere to the results of an election that the bill requires the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District to conduct to determine whether the voters of the district support the construction and operation of that specified project, as prescribed, or the implementation of the project alternative recommended by the PUC.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1893 (Scott-D) Cable television: consumer contracts

Restructures the cable television industry by imposing new requirements on cable television providers and public franchisors.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1973 (Campbell-R) PUC: telecommunications: deregulation

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to perform an annual review of the status of telecommunications competition and to recommend code revisions to the State Legislature.

Chapter 465, Statutes of 1998

AB 1977 (Campbell-R) Telecommunications services: household goods carriers

Provides the California Public Utilities Commission with telephone records from unlicensed household goods carriers, upon order of a magistrate.

Chapter 361, Statutes of 1998

AB 1981 (Campbell-R) Public Utilities Commission: Division of Ratepayer Advocate

Specifies that the Division of Ratepayer Advocate may not advocate or attempt to advocate the interests of any group or class of public utility customers to the detriment of any other group or class of public utility customers.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2112 (Wright-D) Public utilities

Contains legislative findings and declarations relating to natural gas, public goods programs and surcharges, and the need to establish a non-bypassable public goods surcharge.

(Refused passage on Senate Floor)

AB 2134 (Escutia-D) Telephone service and telephonic solicitation

Requires local phone companies to inform their customers about state and federal laws that protect the privacy rights of telephone consumers.

Chapter 473, Statutes of 1998

AB 2142 (Brown-D) Public utilities: telecommunications: truth in billing

Addresses the problem of "cramming", a practice in which consumers are charged for unauthorized services in their phone bills.

Chapter 1036, Statutes of 1998

AB 2273 (Woods-R) Electric utility rates: cost-shifting

Requires the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a brief annual report to the Legislature on the "existence, status and programs" of cost-shifting policy measures, as specified. Repeals a provision that prevents natural gas cooperatives from providing a greater level of service to nonmembers than members and specifies that cooperative proceeds can be used to reduce the cost of operations for its members.

Chapter 816, Statutes of 1998

AB 2326 (House-R) Railroads: public grade crossings

Codifies existing regulations utilized by the California Public Utilities Commission for a three-year pilot project in Stanislaus County and facilitates the ability of local authorities to cite the railroads for grade crossing blocking violations.

Chapter 155, Statutes of 1998

AB 2433 (Strom-Martin-D) Public utilities: telecommunications

Prohibits local exchange carriers from charging rural and nonurban customers a higher rate than urban subscribers in the same service area.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2461 (Campbell-R) Public Utilities Commission: advisory boards

Creates advisory board funds to advise the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regarding the implementation, development and administration of various programs and to carry out the programs (this codifies the existence of eight PUC boards).

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2596 (Thomson-D) Telecommunications: commercial mobile radio

Requires that a commercial mobile radio service, as defined in specified federal law, provide access for end users to local emergency systems, that "911" be the primary access number for those services, and that a provider may not charge any airtime or related charge for such services. Grants broad immunity from liability.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2662 (Martinez-D) Telecommunications: operations support system

Requires Pacific Bell and GTE, by March 31, 1999, to provide to the Public Utilities Commission the practices, procedures, and standards for the computer systems used by those companies to facilitate the processing of customer orders by competitors.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 2684 (Martinez-D) Electrical restructuring

Realigns the percentage of payment of uneconomic electric costs among the classes of electric consumers, and provides a 10% rate reduction for residential and small commercial energy consumers.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2703 (Martinez-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Creates a six member panel to determine what amount of uneconomic nuclear generation costs are to be paid for by electric utility customers.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2716 (Martinez-D) Telecommunications: area codes

Revises the notice and public input process and changes the transition period involved in the creation of new area codes.

Chapter 534, Statutes of 1998

AB 2728 (Martinez-D) Public utilities: consumer education on deregulation

Establishes guidelines for the California Public Utilities Commission, if it is authorized to develop and administer consumer education or consumer information programs on utility deregulation.

(Refused passage on Senate Floor)

AB 2740 (Perata-D) Public utilities: rates and classifications

Requires the California Public Utilities Commission to set a process that is identical for all providers of similar telecommunication services for the purpose of filing schedules showing rates, tolls, charges, etc.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2742 (Wildman-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Amends existing reporting requirements of the Independent System Operator to the Legislature and the Electricity Oversight Board.

(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

ACA 15 (Martinez-D) Public Utilities Commission

Repeals the constitutional provisions providing for a California Public Utilities Commission (PUC), and provides that the PUC shall consist of four elected members and the Lieutenant Governor, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)