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SB 1 (Murray-D) Million solar roofs initiative
Makes statutory changes necessary to expand the scope of the California Solar Initiative, a solar program implemented by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to apply to all electricity utilities, imposes specific requirements on the PUC in implementing the program, and requires developers to provide the option of solar panels on new homes.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2006

SB 107 (Simitian-D) Renewable energy
Accelerates the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) requirement from 2017 to 2010. The RPS is a program that requires investor-owned utilities to, among other things, achieve a 20 percent renewable electricity portfolio. Makes several other related changes.
Chapter 464, Statutes of 2006

SB 202 (Simitian-D) Privacy: telephone calling pattern record or list
Prohibits the purchase or sale of any telephone calling pattern record or list without the written consent of the subscriber making the calls.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2006

SB 204 (Bowen-D) Commission membership
Establishes new conflict of interest standards for members of the California Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 339 (Dutton-R) Emergency telephone systems
Requires local public agencies operating an emergency telephone system to use primary safety answering points in a triage manner so that callers would receive those services needed or appropriate to the situation that caused the emergency telephone call.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 386 (Campbell-R) Public Utilities Commission: inspection and audits
Requires the audits performed every three years by the Public Utilities Commission of the major electric, telephone and water corporations to conform with the Government Auditing Standards published by the Comptroller General of the United States, and where applicable, to the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 423 (Simitian-D) Electricity: charges: charitable organizations
Permits an electric service provider to donate free electric commodity source to a nonprofit charitable organization. Requires the nonprofit to pay all nonbypassable charges imposed on other ratepayers. Sunsets on January 1, 2010.
Chapter 749, Statutes of 2006

SB 426 (Simitian-D) Liquefied natural gas terminals
Requires the California Energy Commission to evaluate and rank every proposed liquefied natural gas terminal and directs the Governor to disapprove an application for a license to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas terminal if the project is not ranked one of the two highest ranked sites.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 431 (Battin-R) Electricity: re-powering of facilities
Requires electric utilities, to encourage "re-powering" of existing renewable energy generators, to offer specified contract and pricing options.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 440 (Speier-D) Telecommunications: billing
Provides additional protections and information to mobile and wireline telephone customers regarding billing discrepancies. Attempts to ensure that cell phone customers are aware of their rights to contest charges which were not authorized and to prevent telephone companies from adversely affecting the customer while their complaints about unauthorized charges are being investigated.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 501 (Machado-D) Electric generation facilities
Provides technical amendments to clarify that state-assessed electrical generation property is assigned by the Board of Equalization (BOE) to a specific tax rate area, rather than a countywide tax rate area, when preparing the BOE roll of state assessed property.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 534 (Runner-R) Telecommunications: mobile telephony services
Requires a cellular telephone company to post information on its web site when a public hearing is scheduled to site an antenna or associated facility.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 574 (Campbell-R) Public utilities: water companies
Includes a limited liability company owning, controlling, operating, or managing a water system as a public utility.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 628 (Dutton-R) State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission
Requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to allow parties to present testimony about alleged misuse of its administrative procedures to exert economic pressure on a party to enter into a labor agreement. Requires the CEC to take certain steps to maintain its neutrality in labor disputes.
(Failed passage in the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 632 (Dutton-R) Electrical corporations: rates
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to continue the availability of optional interruptible or curtailable service at least through December 31, 2009, and prohibits, until after that date, the reduction of the level of the pricing incentive for interruptible or curtailable service below the levels in effect on December 31, 2004.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 641 (Campbell-R) Electricity: electrical restructuring
Repeals the provisions of AB 1X (Keeley), Chapter 4, Statutes of 2005, suspending direct access during the term of the Department of Water Resources (DWR) contracts and instead requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to permit direct access, pursuant to a "core/non-core" structure to be defined by the PUC. Requires the PUC's core/non-core structure to require direct access customers to bear a fair share of DWR's electricity costs or to accept a proportionate allocation of the electrical generation resources used by the investor-owned utilities to serve the departing customer.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 664 (Morrow-R) Public utilities: telegraph and telephone lines
Provides that the authorization for telegraph or telephone corporations to construct lines, as specified, does not apply to the construction or placement of towers, facilities, or other wireless repeaters, amplifiers, regenerative repeaters, or regenerators, to provide mobile telephony services, as defined.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 690 (Cox-R) Public contracts: utility districts: competitive bids
Establishes a threshold of $15,000 or more for specified public works contracts awarded by a municipal utility district and prescribes the procedures to be followed in the advertisement and solicitation of bids. Provides that a public work may be performed without advertising for bids, by day labor, upon unanimous consent of the district's board, and in response to an emergency, as defined.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 757 (Kehoe-D) Oil Conservation, Efficiency, and Alternative Fuels Act
Enacts the Oil Conservation, Efficiency, and Alternative Fuels Act. Requires state agencies to reduce the growth of petroleum demand, increase vehicle energy efficiency and increase the use of alternative fuels.
Vetoed by the Governor
A similar bill was AB 151 (Laird-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SB 769 (Simitian-D) Energy Reliability and Affordability Act
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to expand existing low-income ratepayer refrigerator replacement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 909 (Escutia-D) Broadband services
Permits the Public Utilities Commission to expend up to $2 million for the nonrecurring installation costs for high-speed broadband services for specified community-based organizations.
Chapter 870, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was SB 850 (Escutia-D) which died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee.

SB 951 (Escutia-D) Public Utilities Commission: compensation
Provides that the provisions pertaining to participant and intervenor compensation are to be liberally construed to promote participation. Contains legislative findings that articulate an interest in a more comprehensive effort to hear from the public.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 984 (McClintock-R) Greenhouse gas emissions reductions: powerplants
Requires the California Energy Commission to perform an assessment of life-cycle costs and environmental impacts of existing and proposed electric generation technologies, including fossil, nuclear, renewable, and hydroelectric, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1003 (Escutia-D) Energy resources: liquefied natural gas terminals
Requires the California Energy Commission to establish a permitting process for the siting and construction of liquefied natural gas facilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1017 (Campbell-R) Solar energy: taxation
Makes the credit relating to the use of solar or wind energy systems, as defined, applicable for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2017. Continues the exclusion for an active solar energy system, as defined, until January 1, 2018, for property tax lien dates for the 1999-2000 to 2016-17 fiscal years, inclusive.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1048 (Machado-D) Electrical restructuring: distributed energy resources
States legislative intent to develop distributed generation projects to generate electricity using natural gas that is a by-product of oil production, as such projects reduce air pollution and economically benefit electricity consumers and owners of facilities that generate electricity.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 1059 (Escutia-D) Electric transmission corridors
Authorizes the California Energy Commission to designate electric transmission corridor zones, according to a specified process, in which high-voltage electric transmission lines may be built in the future.
Chapter 638, Statutes of 2006

SB 1068 (Escutia-D) Telecommunications: consumer protection
Requires telephone corporations to disclose to customers key rates, terms, and conditions of a service contract.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1169 (Cox-R) Municipal utility districts: purchases
Repeals the January 1, 2007 automatic termination date in the statute that allows municipal utility districts to use a "best value at the lowest cost acquisition" process to award contracts of more than $50,000 for the purchase of supplies and materials, and makes the repeal permanent for those that used the process prior to January 1, 2006.
Chapter 248, Statutes of 2006

SB 1250* (Perata-D) Energy: cost-effective energy efficiency programs
Authorizes the continued expenditure of monies collected pursuant to current law for the Public Interest Energy Research program and the Renewable Research Development and Demonstration program and provides policy directions for these programs.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 2006

SB 1368 (Perata-D) Electricity: emissions of greenhouse gases
Requires the State Energy Conservation and Development Commission (ECDC) to set emission (e.g., pollution) standards for those entities providing electricity in the state. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to prohibit electricity providers and corporations from entering long-term contracts which do not meet the ECDC's standard.
Chapter 598, Statutes of 2006

SB 1496 (Dunn-D) Public utilities: California Alternate Rates for Energy
States that it is the intent of the Legislature to address the problem of enforcement of utility discounts for qualified low-income residents of master-meter mobilehome parks, apartments, and multiple residential communities under the California Alternate Rates for Energy program.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1505 (Lowenthal-D) Fuel: hydrogen alternative fuel
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations that ensure the production and use of hydrogen for transportation purposes contributes to the reduction of green house gas emissions, criteria air pollutants, and toxic air contaminants.
Chapter 877, Statutes of 2006

SB 1506 (Margett-R) Department of Water Resources: State Water Project
Waives provisions of state contracting requirements for the Department of Water Resources to buy and sell electricity and natural gas, and engage in other financial instruments for the operation of the State Water Project.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 1539 (Kehoe-D) San Diego Association of Governments Energy Working Group
States legislative intent that the San Diego Association of Governments Energy Working Group, or a coalition of local energy interests, are to be involved in regional planning and implementation of energy-related policy.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)

SB 1554 (Bowen-D) Local publicly owned electric utilities: cost responsibility
Prohibits the imposition of exit fees on customers of a local publicly owned electric utility (POU) by prohibiting the Public Utilities Commission from imposing a cost responsibility surcharge on a customer of a POU if the customer's service location has not previously received service from an investor owned utility.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1597 (Denham-R) Taxation: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act
Provides that monies raised pursuant to the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act shall be held in trust for future 911 emergency service projects.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2006

SB 1627 (Kehoe-D) Wireless telecommunications facilities
Requires local governments to administratively approve applications to place wireless communications equipment on structures where such equipment is already located if specified conditions have been met, and prohibits local governments from conditioning approval of applications for permits for wireless facilities in specified ways.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2006

SB 1630* (Maldonado-R) Water corporations: utilities
Provides that a municipal corporation, municipal utility district, public utility district, or municipal water district organized to provide utility service in the County of Monterey has a right of first refusal to acquire any water corporation providing water service in the county, in any sale, lease, assignment, or other disposition requiring approval by the commission.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1651 (Maldonado-R) Telephone records: obtaining
Makes the willful obtaining of another person's telephone calling pattern record or list, without the consent of that person, a public offense punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both. Authorizes a person to bring an action against an individual or legal entity.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1665 (Figueroa-D) Telephone records: unauthorized procurement
Makes it a crime to knowingly procure, attempt to procure, solicit, or conspire to procure, a telephone calling pattern record or list, of another person, without the written authorization of the customer. Makes it a crime to knowingly sell, offer to sell, or conspire to sell, a telephone calling pattern record or list. Authorizes a customer and a telecommunications service to bring an action.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1669 (Kehoe-D) Public utilities: load-serving entities: information
Requires load-serving entities to provide public disclosure of procurement-related filings, including resource adequacy and renewable portfolio standard requirements, comparable to that required of an electrical corporation.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 1705 (Ashburn-R) California Environmental Quality Act: negative declaration
Authorizes a lead agency to adopt a negative declaration or mitigated negative declaration for a proposed project to upgrade, replace, or modify an energy infrastructure, that is (1) undertaken along an existing every corridor, or utility right-of-way, (2) at a minimum, returns the habitat on the energy corridor or utility right-of-way to preexisting conditions or enhances the habitat environment, and (3) the project proponent posts with, or submits to, the lead agency a bond in an amount sufficient to cover the project costs of performing the habitat restoration.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1727 (Kehoe-D) Public utilities: electrical corporations
Creates an exception from the definition of an "electrical corporation", where electricity is generated on private real property and privately distributed across a highway, to an immediately adjacent private real property, solely for its own use or the use of tenants and not for sale or transmission to others. Makes conforming changes for those using cogeneration, land fill gas technology, and digester gas technology for the generation of electricity.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1753 (Dunn-D) Public utilities
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to report on the impact the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 will have on California consumers and strategies that could reduce negative impacts.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1786 (Aanestad-R) Public utilities: rates
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to require that a public utility mitigate a rate increase payable by any class of customers whenever a requested increase in rates for providing utility service will exceed 50 percent during any 12 calendar months following the rate increase and that this be accomplished through a schedule of rate credits.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1788 (Bowen-D) Broadband services
Revises the use of appropriations from the Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund to include high-speed broadband services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1794 (Dunn-D) Public utilities: refineries
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to regulate refineries as public utilities for purposes other than establishing rates.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1803 (Florez-D) Public utilities: municipal corporations: communication
Requires the Attorney General to represent a municipal corporation in any action limiting the corporation's provision of communication services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1816 (Alarcon-D) Energy: gas furnace replacement program
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to replace 50,000 residential gas furnaces annually through 2013.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1833 (Kehoe-D) Electrical restructuring: energy prices: nonutility
States legislative intent to review, and enact legislation relative to, prescribing how energy prices are paid to nonutility generators of electricity (qualifying facilities).
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1840 (Senate Energy, Utilities And Communications Committee) Public safety: State 911 Advisory Board
Makes a number of technical changes to various provisions of state law relating to public utilities.
Chapter 694, Statutes of 2006

SCA 18 (Dunn-D) Public utilities
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.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SJR 24 (Murray-D) Telecommunications: Internet network neutrality
Urges Congress and the President of the United States to encourage broadband deployment and preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet based on four specific principles.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 80* (Houston-R) Sales tax: exemptions: electrical equipment
Creates a state sales and use tax exemption (equal to 5.25 percent) for investment in manufacturing equipment, telecommunication equipment, research and development, and electrical generation activities.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 315 (Hancock-D) School facilities: energy efficiency: design standards
Requires the State Allocation Board regulations for energy efficient school facilities to include incentive-based guidelines that increase the base allocation for a school facilities project that meet certain requirements relative to energy efficient buildings.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 326 (Blakeslee-R) Telephone corporations: universal service
Makes findings regarding the need to maintain sufficient High-Cost Fund-A funding for public health and safety purposes (this special fund is used to keep telecommunications service prices low in rural areas).
Chapter 212, Statutes of 2006

AB 401 (Levine-D) Fuel cell customer-generators
Removes the January 1, 2006 repeal date of the standard tariff to provide for net energy metering, for eligible fuel cell customer-generators, as defined, thereby making the tariff requirement operative indefinitely. Under the bill, a fuel cell electrical generating facility, would not be eligible for participation in the tariff unless it commenced operation before January 1, 2010, and a fuel cell customer-generator would be eligible for the tariff only for the operating life of the eligible fuel cell electrical generating facility. Prohibits the combined statewide cumulative rated generating capacity used by the eligible fuel cell customer-generators in the service territories of all electrical corporations from exceeding 112.5 megawatts.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 650 (Cogdill-R) Electrical restructuring: aggregation
Authorizes certain irrigation districts and municipal utility districts to act as community choice aggregators. Provides procedures for a city, county, or city and county to opt out of a community choice aggregation program proposed by an irrigation district or a municipal utility district.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 701 (Nava-D) State buildings: energy and design criteria
Requires all state buildings on which construction or renovation is begun on or after January 1, 2006, to obtain a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum rating, as developed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) no later than January 1, 2015. A minimum score, as set forth in "Version 2.1" of LEED that USGBC published in March of 2003, shall determine compliance with this bill.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 737 (Jerome Horton-D) Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities
Requires that all property tax assessed value of a public utility plant and associated equipment be allocated entirely to the county in which the facility is located, and that the revenues derived from the tax be allocated to the county and to school districts and cities within the county, as applicable.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 745 (Blakeslee-R) Public utilities: eminent domain
Exempts privately-owned natural gas companies and electric companies from certain public notice and hearing requirements at the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) before the natural gas companies can condemn land as part of an eminent domain proceeding if the condemned land is to be used for PUC authorized natural gas storage.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 810* (Parra-D) Personal income and corporation taxes: tax incentives
Conforms to federal law, to allow accelerated deductions and a tax credit related to the production of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 903 (De La Torre-D) Cable television franchises
Allows a telephone corporation to obtain a local cable television franchise from the local franchising authority for an area within the telephone corporation's service territory.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 936 (Wyland-R) Energy resources: transportation fuels: supply
Establishes, until January 1, 2010, the Office of Special Counsel on Transportation Fuels in the Office of the Governor, and the Governor's Council on Transportation Fuels Policies in state government.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 974 (Nunez-D) Electrical transmission infrastructure
Increases the reporting of information on transmission capacity. Directs the Public Utilities Commission to expedite approval of transmission projects.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 993 (Canciamilla-D) Energy resources: energy efficiency training
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to encourage one or more Economic and Workforce Development Program regional centers to develop a course of training on energy efficiency for facilities managers, and incorporate this training into one of the program's existing initiatives.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1009 (Richman-R) Electricity: time-of-use pricing tariffs
Requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in consultation with other related entities, to develop time-of-use electricity pricing tariffs and require real-time meter for customers of investor-owned utilities. Implementation of the tariffs would be phased in; starting with the largest users by January 1, 2007, and encompassing all customers by January 1, 2014.
(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1010 (Oropeza-D) Telecommunications: mobile telephony services
Requires providers of mobile telephone service to provide a minimum 21-day grace period to new customers, during which the customer may rescind the agreement.
(Died in Conference Committee)

AB 1082 (Ruskin-D) Telecommunications: consumer protection
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop and enforce consumer protection rules for telecommunications service, including mobile telephony services. Prescribes circumstances under which telephone and telegraph corporations may release certain information regarding residential subscribers without their express consent.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1206 (Jerome Horton-D) Telecommunications: new area codes
Requires that the telephone number utilization study be performed within 18 months of the approval of the new area code. Applies these provisions to any pending area code decision that has not been fully implemented as of January 1, 2006. This includes the recently approved 310 area code decision.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1274 (Jerome Horton-D) Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services
Exempts prepaid mobile telephony services, as defined, from the imposition of any state or local tax, fee, or surcharge.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1332 (Gordon-D) Energy Commission: distributed generation
Requires the California Energy Commission to adopt regulations prescribing minimum operating efficiency standards for distributed generation technologies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1362* (Levine-D) Energy resources
Extends the liquidation period for funds that were originally appropriated to provide grants to biogas electricity generation projects by extending the deadline for reversion of unspent funds from a specified manure methane power production program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1388 (Ridley-Thomas-D) California Telecommunications Fund and Account
Permits the Public Utilities Commission to establish two specific grant programs to provide advanced telecommunications network services to community technology programs and public libraries that deliver education services to pupils and health care facilities. Permits any funds repaid to the California Teleconnect Fund from the General Fund to be used for these programs.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1397 (Arambula-D) Eminent domain: public utility property
Deletes a rebuttable presumption, and instead requires a local public entity that appropriates electric, gas, or water public utility property to prove a more necessary use by clear and convincing evidence that the public utility has continually failed to comply with governing rules and regulations.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1411 (DeVore-R) Telephone corporations: reimbursement of overcharges
Requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to require that a telephone corporation that erroneously bills and collects charges in an amount greater than those authorized by the PUC, upon the request of the consumer that paid the overcharge, reimburse the consumer for the overcharge, along with interest at the rate of the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the previous 12 months, plus one percent.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1520 (Niello-R) Public works contracts: infrastructure projects
Authorizes state governmental agencies to utilize private sector investment capital to study, design, construct, finance, and operate fee-producing infrastructure facilities, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1555 (La Malfa-R) California Renewable Portfolio Standard Program
Allows electricity generated from an existing hydroelectric facility that generates more than 30 megawatts of electricity to count toward the California Renewable Portfolio Standard.
(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1621* (Klehs-D) Electrical corporations: Bay Area Rapid Transit
Provides, notwithstanding the provisions creating a dedicated rate component for the recovery of the unamortized balance of the regulatory asset awarded to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, that electricity provided to the Bay Area Rapid Transit that is purchased from a federal power marketing agency or its successor or from a local publicly owned electric utility, is not subject to fixed recovery amounts and fixed recovery tax amounts.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1632 (Blakeslee-R) Energy: planning and forecasting
Requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to compile and assess scientific studies to determine the potential vulnerability of the state's largest generating plants due to aging or a major seismic event, assess the potential state and local costs associated with accumulating waste at California's nuclear powerplants, and adopt the assessment by November 1, 2008.
Chapter 722, Statutes of 2006

AB 1704 (Richman-R) Electricity: electrical restructuring
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish rules for the transition to a core/non-core electrical market structure. Core customers are defined and include all residential and small commercial customers who retain electric service from the investor-owned utility (IOU). Non-core customers are the large commercial and industrial customers who have the option to choose an electric service provider or stay with the IOU.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1891 (Houston-R) Telephone records: obtaining calling pattern record/list
Provides that any person who knowingly procures or sells a telephone calling pattern record of another person without his/her authorization is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to one year in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000 for a first offense, up to one year and/or a fine of up to $2,500 for a second offense, and up to one year and/or a fine of up to $10,000 for a third or subsequent offense.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1925 (Blakeslee-R) Energy: electricity: carbon dioxide
Requires the California Energy Commission, in coordination with the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation, to submit a report to the Legislature that contains recommendations for how the state can apply geologic sequestration strategies for the long-term management of industrial carbon dioxide.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2006

AB 1966 (Garcia-R) Capital investment incentive programs: powerplants
Adds specified renewable energy facilities to the list of qualified manufacturing facilities under a capital investment incentive program.
(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1969 (Yee-D) Electrical corporations: water agencies
Requires an electrical corporation to purchase electricity from renewable electricity generation facilities that are owned and operated by public wastewater agencies.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2006

AB 1970 (Levine-D) Energy resources: California Vampire Slayer Act of 2006
Requires electrical consumer devices sold in California to bear labels indicating measures of the device's electricity use.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1989 (Garcia-R) Telecommunications: Global Positioning System capabilities
Requires the Public Utilities Commission, by January 1, 2008, to require every telecommunications service provider that provides to a customer a handset or other voice communication device that is equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) capability, to disclose to the customer the existence of the device's GPS capability.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2021 (Levine-D) Public utilities: energy efficiency
Requires all electric and natural gas utilities to meet energy efficiency savings targets established by the California Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Commission.
Chapter 734, Statutes of 2006

AB 2062 (Richman-R) Electricity: core, noncore, and core-elect market structure
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt rules to permit noncore customers to choose whether they will receive electrical service from an electric service provider or from the incumbent investor-owned utility.
(Failed passage in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2104 (Lieber-D) Energy: California Alternate Rates for Energy program
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to improve the California Alternate Rates for Energy program application process for tenants who receive electric or gas service from a master-meter customer through a sub-metered system by December 21, 2007.
Chapter 738, Statutes of 2006

AB 2160 (Lieu-D) State buildings: green building
Requires the state to identify and develop appropriate financing and project delivery mechanisms to facilitate state and private sector commercial building projects that are energy and resource efficient.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2006

AB 2189 (Blakeslee-R) Energy: renewable energy resources
Permits incremental energy gained from improved efficiency at existing small hydroelectric facilities to be eligible for the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), even if the efficiency gains increase the facility's capacity to greater than 30 megawatts (MW) and allows a conduit hydroelectric facility of 30 MW or less to count toward the RPS.
Chapter 747, Statutes of 2006

AB 2207 (Blakeslee-R) Energy resources: thermal powerplants
Repeals a January 1, 2007 sunset date on the California Energy Commission's (CEC) six-month powerplant siting process which is an alternative to the CEC's standard 12-month siting process.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2320* (La Malfa-R) Taxation: wireless communication devices
Specifies that the "gross receipts" and "sales price" from the retail sale of a wireless communication device is limited to the amount charged for the sale of that device when it is sold in a bundled transaction.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2321 (Canciamilla-D) Energy: Governor's Green Action Team
Establishes, in statute, the Green Action Team and specifies the team's responsibilities and membership.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2388 (Vargas-D) Air pollution: imported electricity: mitigation fee
Imposes an import fee of $0.001 per kilowatt hour on electricity from new powerplants in Mexico to fund air pollution control in adjacent California air districts.
(Failed passage in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 2390 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public Utilities Commission: reporting requirements
Makes technical changes related to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Changes the term "date of issuance" for a PUC order or decision from the date it was mailed, to the date that is stamped on the official version of the document to permit electronic issuance as well as mailing. Eliminates duplicative reports and combines other reports where appropriate.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2006

AB 2391 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public Utilities Commission: reports: work plan: accounting
Is the vehicle to eliminate duplicative reports and combine other reports where appropriate. Starts to coordinate, consolidate, or eliminate duplicative or similar reports on similar subject matters. Intended to clean up, clarify, and streamline more Public Utilities Commission (PUC) reports to enable the PUC to align the timing of when it receives information, to provide a report on that information to the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 2392 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public utilities: wharfingers
Repeals the authority of a wharfinger to condemn property. Is the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee's annual omnibus code cleanup bill. Fixes a drafting error and clarifies statutes in existing law.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 2393 (Levine-D) Telecommunications: emergency service
Requests the Public Utilities Commission to open several investigations to address the ability of telephone services to operate during an emergency. Appropriates $596,719.
Chapter 776, Statutes of 2006

AB 2415 (Nunez-D) Network security
Requires devices that include an integrated and enabled wireless access point that are manufactured on or after October 1, 2007, to include a warning that advises consumers about how to protect their personal information and mitigate unauthorized use of their Internet access, and provide other specified protection measures.
Chapter 860, Statutes of 2006

AB 2515 (Ruskin-D) Water conservation: report
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to prepare a report describing the progress of regulatory mechanisms which encourage water conservation consistent with the Water Action Plan.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2006

AB 2573 (Leno-D) Electricity: Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation
Increases the amount of solar generation permissible for the City and County of San Francisco's net-metering facilities, and requires Pacific Gas and Electric Company to accept San Francisco-generated photovoltaic (solar) power at one location and provide electricity to a San Francisco-designated remote location up to the amount of electricity contemporaneously being used by the remote location.
Chapter 786, Statutes of 2006

AB 2576 (De La Torre-D) Public utilities: California Alternate Rates for Energy
Makes changes to the enrollment process and guidelines for the California Alternative Rates for Energy Program. Requires any electrical or natural gas corporation that provides discounts based on economic need, as specified, to allow customers to apply for all such discounts on a single application form.
Chapter 787, Statutes of 2006

AB 2617 (Saldana-D) Solar training program
Requires the California Energy Commission to establish programs providing for solar energy worker training utilizing suitable third party training entities.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2622 (Ruskin-D) Telecommunications: mobile telephony services
Requires providers of mobile telephone service to provide a minimum 30-day grace period to new customers or customers who renew or extend a contract, during which the customer may rescind the agreement.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2723 (Pavley-D) Electricity: solar energy: low-income residential housing
Requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to ensure that not less than 10 percent of the funds from the California Solar Initiative be used for the installation of solar energy systems on low-income residential housing, and permits the PUC to incorporate a revolving loan or loan guarantee program for this purpose.
Chapter 864, Statutes of 2006

AB 2744 (Wyland-R) Energy resources: transportation fuels: supply
Establishes the Office of Special Counsel on Transportation Fuels in the Office of the Governor, and the Governor's Council on Transportation Fuels Policies in state government. Requires the special counsel to undertake duties relating to developing transportation fuels policies, promoting energy conservation, promoting competition in transportation fuel supply, and seeking adequate and diverse fuel supplies.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2756 (Levine-D) Energy: efficiency retrofits: public schools
Permits California's higher education facilities to request funding from awards derived from Williams Settlement Agreement to integrate energy efficiency technologies in the educational curriculum and perform energy-efficiency retrofits on the state's lowest-performing schools.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2778 (Lieber-D) Electricity: self-generation incentive program
Extends the sunset of Self Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) for distributed generation resources from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2010, removes solar energy technologies from SGIP pursuant to California Solar Initiative, and requires the California Energy Commission and Air Resources Board to evaluate the feasibility of the program as part of the integrated energy policy report.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2006

AB 2849* (Ruskin-D) Income and bank and corporation taxes: credits: solar energy
Extends the sunset date for the Solar or Wind Energy Systems Credit until January 1, 2011.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2912 (Torrico-D) School facilities: solar energy
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study that identifies the costs and determines the feasibility of requiring developers of residential property located in the state to offer a solar energy option for each new housing unit constructed within the state.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2960 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Energy: electrical corporation procurement plans
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to consider natural gas price volatility when approving investor-owned utility procurement plans.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2987 (Nunez-D) Cable and video service
Creates a mechanism for a state-issued franchise for the provision of cable and video service in California. Enacts the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006.
Chapter 700, Statutes of 2006

AB 2993* (Leno-D) Electricity: net energy metering
Establishes, for the Pacific and Gas Electric Company (PG&E), a separate limit of 200 megawatts by providing that PG&E shall make its standard net energy metering tariff available to eligible customer-generators until the total rated generating capacity used by eligible customer-generators within its service territory exceeds 200 megawatts.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AB 3073 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public utilities: telecommunications
Establishes standard definitions for cellular telephone service throughout state code. Makes other technical corrections to statutes.
Chapter 198, Statutes of 2006

AJR 55 (Nava-D) Oil and gas: offshore drilling
Requests that Congress continue the federal offshore oil and gas leasing moratorium for fiscal year 2007 and beyond, and expresses opposition to certain provisions of proposed federal energy policies and legislation.
Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2006

HR 29 (Houston-R) Joint Bio-Energy Institute
Affirms the Assembly's support of the outstanding proposal developed by the national laboratory partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to bring the Joint Bio-Energy Institute to California.
Adopted by the Assembly

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