Energy and Utilities

Energy and Utilities Legislation

Energy and Utilities Legislation

SB 46* (Alpert-D) Distributed energy resources

Expands the distributed energy resources criterion to include electric generation technology that commenced initial operation between May 1, 2001 and June 1, 2005, except that gas-fired distributed energy resources that are not operated in a combined heat and power application must commence operation no later than September 1, 2003.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 67 (Bowen-D) Energy: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program

Establishes, for the State Public Utilities Commission, an alternative credit test when requiring procurement to fulfill the renewable portfolio standard requirements.

Chapter 731, Statutes of 2003

SB 72 (Dunn-D) Independent System Operator

Requires the Independent System Operator, prior to submitting any discretionary tariff change to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to determine the change will have a demonstrable economic benefit for ratepayers. FERC-required and emergency filings are exempt from this requirement.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 107* (Bowen-D) Independent System Operator: report

Replaces the existing Self-Generation Incentives Program with a new program, with specified, narrowed parameters.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 118 (Bowen-D) State Public Utilities Commission: conflict of interest

Clarifies that a State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) commissioner shall forfeit that office in cases where they voluntarily obtain a financial interest, as defined, in a PUC-regulated company.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 119 (Morrow-R) Independent System Operator

Requires specified transactional and transmission information regarding market activities of electrical corporations and other market participants be reported to the Independent System Operator and the State Attorney General and authorizes the conveyance of that information to a federal government agency, as specified.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 128 (Bowen-D) Cellular telecommunications service

Requires providers of cellular telephone service to extend a minimum 30-day grace period to new customers during which the customer may rescind the agreement.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 168 (Senate Energy, Utilities, And Communications Committee) Payphone Service Providers Committee

Makes a number of technical and nonsubstantial changes to the Public Utilities Code and the Public Resources Code. Corrects several incorrect cross references, expands the potential membership of an advisory board for the Public Interest Energy Research Program, and consolidates a number of reports the California Energy Commission is required to file with the Legislature.

Chapter 733, Statutes of 2003

SB 171 (Bowen-D) State Public Utilities Commission: judicial review

Authorizes any aggrieved party to petition the court to review the decision of the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with respect to an order that interprets a provision of the Public Utilities Code. Specifies the court shall only determine if the PUC acted without, or in excess of, its powers and jurisdiction or whether the order violates any right of the petitioner.

(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 173 (Dunn-D) Energy

Reduces the State Public Utilities Commission's reliance on price indexes to establish certain energy prices, in response to reports that these indexes have been manipulated and tainted by fraudulent information. Increases the penalty assessed under the Unfair Competition Law for fraudulent reporting of information to energy price index publishers.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 183 (Sher-D) Energy: renewable technologies

Repeals two code sections in the Public Utilities Code relating to the funding and administration of renewable energy programs at the California Energy Commission (CEC) and recasts the same language in multiple code sections in the Public Resources Code. Corrects related cross-references in other code sections. Requires the CEC to annually publish the balance of consumer incentive program funds available to emerging renewable energy resources.

Chapter 666, Statutes of 2003

SB 185 (Sher-D) Electricity: source disclosure

Updates existing requirements that retail sellers of electricity disclose to end use customers and to the California Energy Commission the sources by fuel type of their electricity portfolio.

(Failed passage on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 289 (Murray-D) Residential solar energy systems

Requires that an unspecified percentage of single-family residences, constructed on or after January 1, 2006, include a solar energy system and the California Energy Commission to make a related determination by January 1, 2008.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 304 (Morrow-R) Petroleum: refiners: service stations

Prohibits refiners of motor fuels from converting service stations owned by independent dealers to company-operated service stations, after January 1, 2005. Also prohibits refiners from engaging in various pricing and delivery practices.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 310 (Sher-D) California Energy Commission

Requires the Secretary for the State Environmental Protection Agency to be an ex officio, nonvoting member of the California Energy Commission.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 419 (Scott-D) Telecommunications

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to adopt rules related to the conversion of Cellular Digital Packet Data telecommunications systems used by public safety departments, as specified.

(In Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 429 (Morrow-R) Public utilities: acquisition or control

Requires holding companies to assure the financial health of subsidiary public utilities and specifically grants the State Public Utilities Commission jurisdiction to enforce these provisions against holding companies.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 520 (Sher-D) Independent System Operator

Requires the Independent System Operator to review its performance and costs, compare its costs to other system operators, and report its findings to the Legislature by February 1, 2004.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 521 (Bowen-D) State Public Utilities Commission: customers

Requires the Office of Ratepayer Advocate, within the State Public Utilities Commission, to primarily consider the interests of residential and small commercial customers when dealing with rate design and revenue allocation matters, and expands eligibility for "intervenor compensation", as specified.

Chapter 300, Statutes of 2003

SB 529 (Morrow-R) Irrigation districts: electric power facilities: sale

Requires an irrigation district that owns, operates, and maintains facilities for the generation, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electric power, to give notice to the State Public Utilities Commission at least 30 days prior to the proposed sale date of the proposed sale of evidence of indebtedness issued to provide financing of any works of the district.

(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 659 (Soto-D) Electrical corporations: rates

Extends, for five years, a sunset provision in an existing provision which requires all residential electricity charges to be based on volume of usage and prohibits the investor owned utilities from imposing fixed charges.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 697 (Soto-D) Public utilities: community choice aggregation

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to establish separate distribution service rates and charges for electricity, as defined, that is supplied to end use customers, as specified, where the electricity is transported within a single local distribution system.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 703 (Florez-D) Electricity rates: agricultural irrigation pumps

Declares the intent of the Legislature to establish cost-effective agricultural and water pumping electricity rate schedules that are competitive with diesel rates to prevent additional conversions of agricultural irrigation pumps to diesel-driven engines.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

SB 720 (Bowen-D) Telecommunications services

Provides for payment of installation costs and discounts for use of high speed Internet services for schools, libraries, community-based organizations, and hospitals owned by cities and counties. Clarifies that advanced telecommunications services includes high speed communications services such as digital subscriber line services for the purposes of the California Teleconnect Fund.

Chapter 531, Statutes of 2003

SB 770 (Chesbro-D) Pacific Union College: electric service reliability

Makes findings that there have been allegations of inadequate electric service quality in northern Napa County. Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to order Pacific Gas and Electric Company to undertake a service quality study in the Napa County area.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 772 (Bowen-D) Electricity: financing energy recovery

Permits the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to authorize, as part of a plan of reorganization, the issuance of bonds secured by a dedicated rate component to secure an electrical corporation's emergence from bankruptcy. States that the PUC may only authorize the issuance of bonds if the action will benefit ratepayers through lower rates.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 808* (Karnette-D) Sales and use taxes: exemptions: bunker fuel

Reinstates a state and local sales and use tax exemption for bunker fuel that was in effect prior to July 15, 1991 and from January 1, 1993 through January 1, 2003. Sunsets January 1, 2014. Requires the Office of the Legislative Analyst to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature that evaluates the economic impact of the exemption.

Similar legislation is AB 496 (Lowenthal-D), which is on the Senate Third Reading File.

SB 820 (Denham-R) Ethanol

Requires the California Energy Commission to report to the Legislature and Governor, by January 1, 2005, on the renewable ethanol industry in the state.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 830 (Florez-D) Telecommunications: caller identification

Requires that every telephone call identification service offered in this state by a telephone corporation, or by any other person or corporation that makes use of the facilities of a telephone corporation, to offer that service without charge to any elementary or secondary public school.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 834 (Bowen-D) Public utilities: high speed communications services

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to convene a proceeding to consider how to encourage more competition in the high speed communications services business.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 874 (Bowen-D) Net energy metering

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to adopt regulations relating to a customer's request to net meter and create a process for resolving differences of opinion on how quickly systems should be installed and how costs should be apportioned.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 888 (Dunn-D) Public utilities: electrical restructuring

Enacts the Repeal of Electricity Deregulation Act of 2003. Repeals provisions relating to implementing a market based electric industry structure under AB 1890 (Brulte-R), Chapter 854, Statutes of 1996, including modifying the existing definitions that govern regulatory policy for investor owned utilities.

(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 894 (Aanestad-R) Telecommunications: rates

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission, until January 1, 2005, to establish a competitively neutral and broad-based program, consistent with a policy of rate comparability to ensure that rates are not more than 150 percent higher in one area of the state than another.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 911 (Alpert-D) Local emergency telephone systems

Creates, in state government, the State 911 Advisory Board to advise the Telecommunications Division of the State Department of General Services, comprised of specified members appointed by the Governor.

Chapter 631, Statutes of 2003

SB 920 (Bowen-D) Electricity Oversight Board: Independent System Operator

Eliminates the Electricity Oversight Board (EOB) and transfers all legal and regulatory proceedings where EOB is a party, as specified, and makes related changes to provisions concerning the Independent System Operator and the Power Exchange.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 944 (Sher-D) Rates: cost recovery: advocacy account

Requires each public utility to establish a separate regulatory, legislative, and judicial advocacy account and record in that account all costs that the utility includes in its revenue requirement for rate recovery related to appearing at certain governmental proceedings. The costs recorded in the account will be recoverable in rates following a separate request by the affected utility.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 981 (Soto-D) Children's Health and Petroleum Pollution Remediation Act

Enacts the Children's Health and Petroleum Pollution Remediation Act of 2003 and makes extensive legislative findings regarding petroleum products and air pollution.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1015 (Morrow-R) Distributed energy resources

Removes the installation deadline for specified distributed generation projects making any such project installed between 2004 and 2011 eligible for a waiver of utility standby charges until 2011.

(Failed passage in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee; reconsideration granted)

SCA 6 (Battin-R) State Public Utilities Commission: election

Subject to voter approval (1) requires commissioners of the State Public Utilities Commission to be elected, rather than appointed, (2) increases the number of commissioners from five to seven, and (3) requires the state to be divided into seven districts, as specified.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCA 13 (Dunn-D) Public utilities: gasoline

Includes in the definition of public utilities, private corporations and persons that own, operate, control, or manage a line, plant, or system for the production, generation, transmission, or furnishing of gasoline, directly or indirectly to or for the public.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 39 (Johnson-R) Local publicly owned electric utilities: exit fees

Declares legislative intent that any municipal utility serving customers in newly developed areas shall be exempt from any exit fees, after meeting specified conditions.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SR 27 (Chesbro-D) Relative to the State Public Utilities Commission

Requests the State Public Utilities Commission to prepare an analysis of the electric service provided by Pacific Gas and Electric Company to the Pacific Union College and surrounding areas and, if necessary, based on that analysis, facilitate agreements regarding system upgrades.

Adopted by the Senate

SR 30 (Bowen-D) Securitized financing

Urges the State Public Utilities Commission to evaluate the use of securitized financing backed by a dedicated rate component to reduce the cost to ratepayers of settling the Pacific Gas and Electric Company bankruptcy and, if necessary, take appropriate steps to implement such financing, including recommending legislation.

Adopted by the Senate

AB 84 (Cogdill-R) Public utilities: common carrier fees: annual audit

Requires the Bureau of State Audits to either conduct or hire an independent auditor to conduct regular audits of how the State Public Utilities Commission spends the user fees it collects from railroads.

(Failed passage in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 425 (Richman-R) Electric service: rates: interruptible programs

Extends and revises the statutory authority for interruptible or curtailable service programs administered by the inevstor-owned utilities.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 426 (Richman-R) State Water Project: solar panels

Requires the State Department of Water Resources to establish a program to lease space above the state water project to private entities for the purpose of installing solar panels to generate electricity.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 508 (McCarthy-R) Telecommunications: commercial mobile radio services

Provides that a telephone corporation does not include a person or corporation that provides commercial mobile radio services, unless expressly made applicable, by any statute, to commercial mobile radio service or a category of commercial mobile radio services. Changes the definition of a telephone line as including all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilities communication by telephone using transmission wires.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 583 (Leslie-R) Generation facilities: regulation

Exempts the sale of specified electric generation facilities by public utilities from a temporary ban imposed by law.

Chapter 108, Statutes of 2003

AB 653 (Nunez-D) Energy: electricity generation facilities: rates

Repeals the January 1, 2005 sunset date on the program that authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue revenue bonds, notes, and bond anticipation notes to finance cogeneration and alternative energy equipment, and conservation projects in public buildings, and broadens the spectrum of projects that can be financed.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 742 (Canciamilla-D) Streambed alteration

Adds the routine maintenance and operation of hydroelectric facilities to the list of activities that do not require the notice and agreement in current law.

(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 808 (Canciamilla-D) Energy: agency consolidation

Contains a major reorganization of California's energy regulatory apparatus. Establishes an Energy Agency.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 816 (Reyes-D) Local publicly owned electric utilities

Reinstates the AB 1890 direct access statutes by repealing AB 1X's direction to suspend direct access. States the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation conforming to a pending State Public Utilities Commission decision adopting a cost responsibility surcharge for customers leaving investor-owned utility (IOU) service for a new municipal utility, provided that the decision will not result in cost shifting to IOU bundled service customers.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 840 (Calderon-D) Public Utilities Commission: evidence: orders or decisions

Makes major procedural changes with regard to the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in two areas. First, requires the PUC to adhere to the evidentiary rules of the Administrative Procedure Act in its adjudicatory proceedings. Second, requires a writ of review to be issued by the court in certain cases where an application is filed for review of a PUC decision (any case where the petition challenges the decision on the ground that the decision relies on reasoning that misconstrues, misinterprets or misapplies a statute or where the decision relies on a statutory provision that is unconstitutional or prohibited by federal law or regulations).

(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 844 (Nation-D) Replacement Tire Efficiency Program

Requires the California Energy Commission to develop a statewide replacement tire efficiency program to promote the use of fuel efficient tires.

Chapter 645, Statutes of 2003

AB 845 (Vargas-D) Household goods carriers

Enacts several new provisions designed to protect consumers from unscrupulous moving companies.

Chapter 646, Statutes of 2003

AB 860 (Bates-R) Electrical corporations: desalination plants

Excludes an entity from regulation as a public utility if it sells electricity to another corporation for the purpose of operating a seawater desalination plant.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 909 (Reyes-D) Telecommunications: local and long-distance service

Requires telephone companies to disclose certain types of billing information for customers who purchase bundled service packages.

Chapter 565, Statutes of 2003

AB 914 (Reyes-D) Electricity: financing energy recovery

Makes numerous changes in order to expand the capability of the 911 system.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 925 (Richman-R) Powerplants: permits

Reduces the number of conditions a powerplant must meet to qualify for an expedited review of application. Eliminates the repeal date of this provision and eliminates the repeal of the requirement that the California Energy Commission establish a process for the expedited review of applications to construct and operate thermal powerplants.

(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1157 (Canciamilla-D) Public utilities: water and gas rates

Applies the requirement for timely decisions and the authority to apply for interim rates to large water corporation rate cases which were filed prior to the passage of this law and declares this provision is declaratory of existing law. Extends to gas corporations serving less than 250,000 connections the same authority to apply for interim rates.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1164 (Berg-D) Telecommunications: mobile telephony services: fraud

Makes clarifying technical changes to existing law for purposes of updating the wording and definition for cellular telephone carriers.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1169 (Bermudez-D) Aggregation: Magnolia Power Project

Modifies statutes enacted by AB 80 to limit its application to one city (Cerritos), to permit Cerritos to offer direct access service to specified school facilities outside its jurisdiction, and to provide that the statute doesn't require Cerritos to rely solely on output of the Magnolia power plant.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1203 (Haynes-R) Electric power: purchase contracts

Authorizes the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) to contract with any person, local publicly owned electric utility, or other entity for the purchase of power on such terms and for such periods as DWR determines and at such prices as DWR deemed appropriate. Requires DWR to sell or liquidate all contracts for the purchase of power that it has entered into pursuant to the above provision.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1214 (Firebaugh-D) Net energy metering: fuel cell customer-generators

Requires electrical corporations to provide net energy metering to fuel cell customer generators, as specified.

Chapter 661, Statutes of 2003

AB 1237 (Salinas-D) Electrical corporations

Requires energy efficiency programs operated by the state's investor-owned utilities to include a program for energy efficiency improvement at facilities owned and operated by nonprofit organizations that exclusively serve those who will meet the programs' income eligibility requirements.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1284* (Leslie-R) Direct transactions: cost responsibility surcharges

Authorizes the State Public Utilities Commission to defer or waive a portion of the cost responsibility surcharge or exit fees for qualifying direct transaction customers, as specified.

Chapter 239, Statutes of 2003

AB 1291 (Campbell-R) Baseline rates: electric pumps

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to establish a baseline quantity and electricity rate for people who live in homes that were designed to be all electric.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1292 (Campbell-R) Public Utilities Commission: telecommunications: funds

Specifies that all public service funds administered by the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will be continuously appropriated. Requires that six public service funds in the PUC be continuously appropriated regardless of the fiscal year.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1329 (Levine-D) Public Utilities Commission: telecommunications

Establishes, in code, a set of basic consumer rights for all telecommunications customers in California. The broad policies established by this bill will act as a guideline for the Legislature and regulatory bodies when they consider developing future regulations for telecommunication services.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1340 (Kehoe-D) Petroleum: information reports

Requires oil refiners, producers, transporters, marketers, pipeline operators, and terminal operators, as specified, to submit weekly, rather than monthly, reports to the California Energy Commission relating to inventory levels, gasoline imports and exports, and other specified information.

Chapter 692, Statutes of 2003

AB 1379 (Calderon-D) Telecommunications: mobile telephone service

Requires wireless carriers to provide subscribers with a means to access information on their roaming usage and charges.

Chapter 333, Statutes of 2003

AB 1389 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public Utilities Commission: reports: hiring

Requires a public utility employing more than 750 employees to report annually to the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) certain information regarding its customer base, workforce, and capital investments. Requires the PUC to make the information available on its web site and to report the information annually to specified legislative committees.

Chapter 446, Statutes of 2003

AB 1407 (Wolk-D) Solar energy systems

Prohibits a public entity from imposing restrictions on real property that prohibit or restrict the installation or use of a solar energy system and restricts state funds for solar energy programs to jurisdictions that comply with this requirement. Prohibits a local jurisdiction from exempting its residents from the requirement that solar energy systems be allowed as permitted by state law.

Chapter 290, Statutes of 2003

AB 1452 (Hancock-D) Telecommunications: predictive dialers

Requires that the error rate established by the State Public Utilities Commission for predictive dialers not exceed one percent and specifies criteria for an "abandoned call".

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1457* (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Telecommunications: High-Cost Fund-A

Appropriates $2.5 million, from the California High-cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund (High-Cost A) to the State Public Utilities Commission, in order to pay subsidies to small independent telephone companies serving high-cost rural areas for 2001-02, as specified.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1661 (Diaz-D) Public utilities: reports and records

Provides that information made readily available to the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) at a public utility's Internet web site satisfies the requirements in current law relating to delivery to the PUC of copies of specified information.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1672 (Cogdill-R) Renewable energy: biomass

Provides that a person with a valid permit for agricultural burning, as specified, qualifies for emission reduction credits. Changes the definition of eligible customer-generators to include residential, small commercial, commercial, industrial, or agricultural customers of an electric service provider that use biomass electricity generating facilities.

(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1684 (Leno-D) Distributed energy

Excludes solar installations from any cost responsibility surcharges that the State Public Utilities Commission may impose upon customer generation departing load.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1685 (Leno-D) Energy: self-generation incentive program: peak reduction

Extends the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) until January 1, 2008, and requires that combustion-operated distributed generation projects meet specific emissions targets in order to qualify for SGIP rebates.

Chapter 894, Statutes of 2003

AB 1730 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Telecommunications: high-cost funds

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to submit a report to the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee and the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, or their successors, by March 1, 2004, on the status of balances, transfers, and reimbursement requests for the California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee fund and the High-Cost Fund-B Administrative Committee Fund.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1733 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Electricity: procurement plans

Makes a clarifying change to existing law governing utility electrical procurement plans. Requires a proposed electricity procurement plan of an electric utility to demonstrate that it furthers the utility's obligation under the state's renewables portfolio standard.

(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1734 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public utilities: energy efficiency budgets

Allows public utilities to submit multi-year energy efficiency program budgets to the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC), and requires PUC approval of the program budgets within six months after submittal.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1735 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Ratesetting and quasi-legislative cases

Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to resolve all ratesetting and quasi-legislative cases within 18 months of the date of filing, as specified.

Chapter 452, Statutes of 2003

AB 1756* (Assembly Budget Committee) State government

Enacts the statutory language in the area of the State Budget concerning general government issues, which, among other things, contains language relative to the State Public Utilities Commission's responsibilities.

Chapter 228, Statutes of 2003

ACR 118 (Wiggins-D) Public broadcasting

Recognizes the considerable contribution that the public broadcasting stations of this state make in educating and informing the citizens of our state and urges all state agencies to consider and explore partnerships with these stations that might assist in effectively and efficiently carrying out the responsibilities and mandates of those agencies.

(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

ACR 134 (Cogdill-R) California Small and Rural Telecommunications Week

Declares the week of September 15 through 21, 2003 as California Small and Rural Telecommunications Week. Makes the following legislative findings: (1) independent rural telephone companies play an important role in the telecommunications industry, having brought voice communications to most of the lesser populated areas of the nation, and (2) independent rural telephone companies serve areas that the larger telephone companies chose not to serve due to factors such as topography, population, and profitability.

Resolution Chapter 150, Statutes of 2003

Index (in Bill Order)