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SB 71 (Florez-D) Alternative fuels: biodiesel
Requires that all diesel fuel vehicles owned by the State of California, a city, county, or mass transit district use diesel fuel that is at least 20% biodiesel fuel made from nonpetroleum constituents.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 74* (Florez-D) Biodiesel: tax exemption
Exempts from specified taxes the gross receipts from the sale and the storage of, use or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person in the manufacturing, processing, or production of biodiesel fuel.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 75 (Florez-D) Alternative fuels: biodiesel
Deems diesel vehicles and engines using biodiesel to be in compliance with applicable state toxic air control measures and requires that vehicles sold or leased by the State of California be warranty-certified to use at least 20% biodiesel fuel.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 312 (Kehoe-D) Public Utilities Commission
Requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to post on its Internet web site all documents, testimony, or other materials filed with the PUC in any rate-setting or quasi-legislative proceedings, and each tariff filed by a public utility and approved by the PUC for utilities that exceed $10 million in annual revenues.
Vetoed

SB 323 (Kehoe-D) Telecommunications: broadband report
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to report to the Legislature on the availability of two-way broadband telecommunications access.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 324 (Migden-D) Electricity: Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation
Authorizes a private energy producer to generate electricity not generated from conventional sources for a community choice aggregator. Authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to elect to designate specific solar electricity generation facilities pursuant to the above-described authorization, and provides that the authorization does not limit the right of Hetch Hetchy Water and Power to sell electricity from a solar generation facility owned by the City and County of San Francisco when otherwise authorized by law.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 328 (Corbett-D) Telephone calls: personal information: prohibited practices
Expands the definition of "personal information" to include a telephone calling pattern. Prohibits "pretexting" and provides civil remedies for violations.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

SB 332 (Corbett-D) Energy: appliance efficiency standards
Requires the California Energy Commission, within available resources, to develop a priority list of appliances for test procedures and energy efficiency standards. Requires the list to include televisions and computer monitors in active mode and to be completed by 7/1/08.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 380 (Kehoe-D) Renewable energy resources
Modifies a program that allows small-scale renewable generators to sell renewable electricity to an investor-owned utility at a rate set by the Public Utilities Commission so any customer of the three largest investor-owned utilities may participate in the program.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2008

SB 410 (Simitian-D) Energy: renewable energy resources
Requires the California Energy Commission, in making awards for existing Renewable Research Development Demonstration programs technologies, to establish a specified production incentive and to make payments depending upon the availability of funding. Clarifies existing law regarding the ability of publicly owned utilities to count the same technologies toward their renewable portfolio standard obligations as investor-owned utilities.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 411 (Simitian-D) Energy: renewable energy resources
Extends and expands the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard to require the investor-owned utilities and certain other retail sellers of electricity to increase their procurement of renewable resources to at least 33% of retail sales by 2020.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 412 (Simitian-D) Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
Requires the California Energy Commission, as part of its biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report, to study and report, as specified, on the need for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at reasonable prices to meet the state's energy demands. Prohibits the Governor or a state or local entity from approving the construction of an LNG terminal until the final report is issued and all appeals have been exhausted, or 11/1/08, whichever is earlier. Requires the environmental impact report for an LNG terminal project, in addition to elements required under the California Environmental Quality Act, to include an analysis of feasible alternative project technologies and an analysis of disproportionately high effects on minority and low-income populations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 463 (Negrete McLeod-D) Energy: biogas digester customer-generator pilot program
Permits an eligible biogas digester customer-generator (typically large dairies) to sell excess electricity to their electric service provider at a capped price, only if the generator has entered into a long-term purchase agreement with the electrical corporation.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 469 (Runner-R) Energy
Requires the California Energy Commission to identify practices and financial impediments that currently discourage private capital from being invested in privately held self-generation facilities, the impact on the existing transmission system, the environment, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gases which is associated with new generation capacity, and report those findings to the Legislature by 1/1/08.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 724 (Kuehl-D) PUC: ratesetting and quasi-legislative cases
Requires the Public Utilities Commission, in a ratesetting or quasi-legislative case involving a light rail grade crossing, to resolve issues raised in the scoping memo within nine months of the date of the memo, unless the Commission makes a written determination that the deadline cannot be met, including findings as to the reason, and issues an order extending the deadline.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 757 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Telecommunications: grant programs
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish, until 1/1/14, a Community Supplemental Education Demonstration Grant Program and a Telemedicine Demonstration Grant Program. Specifies that awards under the grant programs will be for the purpose of providing advanced telecommunications network services to community technology programs and to public libraries that deliver supplemental education services to pupils and to health care facilities that provide telemedicine services.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 780 (Wiggins-D) Telecommunications: universal service
Extends the sunset date on the California High Cost Fund-A program from 1/1/09 to 1/1/13, and the California High Cost Fund-B program from 1/1/09 to 1/1/12. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to report to the Legislature by 7/1/10 on the affordability of basic phone service in areas funded by the California High Cost Fund-B.
Chapter 342, Statutes of 2008

SB 871 (Kehoe-D) Electric generators
Reinstates those provisions of law for establishing a process for the expedited review of application to construct and operate thermal power plants and related facilities and for the expedited review of repowering projects.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 980 (Padilla-D) Electric utilities
Requires the California Energy Commission to evaluate the adequacy of the electric distribution system of specified local publicly owned electric utilities. Provides that the evaluation shall be conducted as a part of the integrated policy report due by 11/1/09.
Vetoed

SB 1012 (Kehoe-D) Electricity: self-generation incentive program
Expands the technologies eligible for the self-generation incentive program subsidies to fossil fuel combustion-operated distributed generation projects, and allows the Public Utilities Commission to determine eligibility for additional incentives. Includes a 20% additional incentive for the installation of eligible technologies that are manufactured in California by companies that have their principal place of business in California.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 1013 (Padilla-D) Telecommunications: universal service
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to annually designate a class of lifeline service, including broadband service, necessary to meet minimum residential communications needs, including the ability to originate and receive calls and the ability to access electronic information services at reasonable download and upload speeds.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1024* (Kehoe-D) Telecommunications: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act
Expands the definition of "service supplier" in order to include Voice Over Internet Protocol in the 911 State Emergency Telephone Account.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1040* (Kehoe-D) Telecommunications: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act
Provides for a surcharge on Voice Over Internet Protocol service phone providers and users that connect to the 911 system to pay into the State Emergency Telephone Number Account.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2008

SB 1144 (Cox-R) Telecommunications: California High-Cost Fund-A program
Extends the sunset date of the California High Cost Fund-A program from 1/1/09 to 1/1/13. Operative only if SB 780 (Wiggins) is not enacted in this session.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1149 (Wiggins-D) Telecommunications: grants to areas not served
Extends, from 1/1/09 to 1/1/13, the Public Utilities Commission Rural Telecommunications Infrastructure Grant Program.
Chapter 388, Statutes of 2008

SB 1193 (Padilla-D) Telecommunications: California Advanced Services Fund
Establishes, until 1/1/13, the California Advanced Services Fund to help promote the deployment of broadband infrastructure. Requires that monies collected by the surcharge authorized by the Public Utilities Commission to fund the California Advanced Services Fund, be deposited in the fund. Prohibits the Commission from collecting those monies in an amount that exceeds a total amount of $100 million.
Chapter 393, Statutes of 2008

SB 1278 (Maldonado-R) Building standards: green building construction
Establishes the Green Neighborhood Grant Act. The Green Neighborhood Grant Act will be administered by the California Energy Commission, which will award three grants annually to private developers who meet the requirements of the California Green Builder Program. Each grant will reimburse the developer for up to 1.5% of the development cost. No more than one grant will be given for a development in a city with a population of over 1,000,000. The grants will be paid from the General Fund.
(Died in Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1389 (Padilla-D) Public utilities: telephone corporations: acquisitions
Exempts telephone corporations that are not regulated under a rate-of-return regulatory structure from Public Utilities Commission authority over mergers.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1399 (Simitian-D) Public resources: solar shading
Exempts from the Solar Shade Control Act, any tree or shrub planted prior to the installation of a solar collector. Authorizes notification to affected property owners, as specified.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2008

SB 1423 (Kuehl-D) Unlisted telephone numbers
Prevents telephone customers from having to pay to keep their telephone numbers unlisted.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1437 (Padilla-D) Education technology: California Virtual Campus
Establishes in statute the California Virtual Campus and deems the California Community Colleges to be qualifying schools for the California Teleconnect Fund program administered by the Public Utilities Commission. Extends, to 1/1/14, the sunset date for exemptions to the cap on the percentage of pupils that K-12 school principals may recommend for enrollment at community colleges during summer sessions.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2008

SB 1438 (Padilla-D) Electricity: smart grid systems
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine the requirements for a "smart grid" deployment plan and requires each electrical corporation to submit a smart grid plan to the Commission for approval.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1460 (Wiggins-D) Solar energy projects: rented residential property
Requires the Public Utilities Commission, by 7/1/10, to develop and implement a strategy to expand the participation of multi-unit residential and commercial rental properties in the California Solar Initiative and in energy efficiency programs, using the existing funds allocated for these programs, and report to the Legislature on this program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1484* (Alquist-D) Income and corporation taxes: oil producers: credits
Repeals the deductions and credits allowed to oil producers and creates a new credit for clean energy technology.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1491 (McClintock-R) Electric utilities: remotely controlled devices: thermostats
Prohibits any electric utility from operating a remote controlled device without prior consent of the subscriber, and allows the subscriber to revoke any prior consent given to the electric utility.
Vetoed

SB 1493 (McClintock-R) Energy: solar shade
Exempts from the prohibition related to solar collectors, trees and shrubs that were planted prior to the installation of a solar collector that may potentially or eventually grow to cast a shadow upon a subsequently installed solar collector on the property of another.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1512 (Wiggins-D) Private energy producers: agricultural customer-generators
Permits agricultural customers who use solar or a wind turbine to offset the customer's own electrical needs to aggregate the electricity usage of properties adjacent or contiguous to the generator that are under the same ownership.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 1536 (Kehoe-D) Energy: rates
Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from requiring or permitting an electrical corporation to employ dynamic pricing for residential customers, but authorizes the Commission to authorize an electrical corporation to offer residential customers the option of receiving service pursuant to dynamic pricing.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1588 (Maldonado-R) Mobile telephony service: prepaid phones
Requires a retailer to obtain a valid photo identification, name, and home address from every prepaid cell phone customer. The serial number of the cell phone and all other information identifying the phone, in addition to the customer identification, must be provided to the cell phone service provider and retained for three years. A retailer may sell no more than three prepaid cell phones to one customer within one year.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1602 (Scott-D) Public Utilities Commission
Requires elected state officers to file a report of behested payments electronically with the Secretary of State, if that officer is already subjected to online filing requirements and requires the Secretary of State to make the information available to the public on its Internet web site.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1645 (Wiggins-D) Energy: Energy Aware Planning Guide
Requires the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to update its Energy Aware Planning Guide to include model general plan elements to address energy and climate changes with specified elements.
Vetoed

SB 1670* (Kehoe-D) Energy efficiency and carbon reduction
Authorizes, subject to voter approval at the 11/4/08 statewide election, $2 billion worth of state general obligation bonds to fund energy efficiency and carbon reduction-related programs implementing the state's efforts to reduce energy use in state buildings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1672 (Steinberg-D) Energy: clean technology and renewable energy
Authorizes, subject to voter approval at an unspecified 2010 statewide election, $2.25 billion worth of state general obligation bonds to fund capital outlay projects at institutions offering career development related to clean technology, renewable energy or energy efficiency, and to fund a revolving loan for capital outlay projects undertaken by public and private entities involved in such career development.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1700 (Steinberg-D) Gas corporations: underground natural gas storage facilities
Provides that a gas corporation that commences operation of an underground natural gas storage facility after 1/1/09, that is located in an urban area under residential properties, is strictly liable for any damages to persons or property resulting from the operation of the facility.
Vetoed

SB 1714 (Negrete McLeod-D) Renewable electric generation facilities
Expands an existing program that requires utilities to purchase electricity from small-scale renewable electricity generators owned by a public water or wastewater agency to include renewable electricity produced by any customer of an electric utility and to allow for larger renewable generating facilities to be eligible for the program.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1719 (Perata-D) Public works: utility workers: wage protection
Changes the current definition of "public works" to include work done under contract by a public utility. Extends current protections offered to workers employed on public works projects to workers employed on construction projects for public utilities.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1754 (Kehoe-D) Alternative energy and advanced transportation financing
Authorizes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to enter into power purchase agreements with public and private entities for the purchase and sale of alternative source energy or projects.
Chapter 543, Statutes of 2008

SB 1757 (Padilla-D) Telecommunications: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act
Increases the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Rate range from .5%-0.75% to 0.5%-1.0% and allows the revenue generated from the surcharge to be allocated for personnel costs.
(Failed passage in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1760 (Perata-D) Energy: greenhouse gas emissions
Formalizes the structure and duties of the Climate Action Team to coordinate climate policy and expenditure of state funds.
Vetoed

SB 1761* (Perata-D) Water/energy efficiency: greenhouse gas emissions reduction
Requires the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to meet the requirements of the California Renewable Portfolio Standard Program in the procurement of water for the State Water Project and other state water operations overseen by DWR. Requires DWR to comply with the statewide targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 1762 (Perata-D) Energy: greenhouse gas emissions
Creates the California Climate Change Research and Workforce Development Institute at the University of California funded by a redirection of existing funding from the Public Interest Energy Research Program, and an additional fee on electric service provided by investor-owned utilities and publicly owned utilities. The prime goal of the Institute is to identify and support research and education through grants to California universities and national labs to reduce or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Vetoed

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     SCR 6 (Florez-D) Public Utilities Commission
Requests the Public Utilities Commission to cooperate with the state's public utilities in immediately approving advice letter filings to establish appropriate payment deferral programs for agricultural growers whose crops were destroyed as a result of the cold storms and consequent frost damage that occurred in January of 2007. Requests the Public Utilities Commission to authorize recovery for the actual administrative costs, with the exception of interest foregone on deferred amounts and recovery of uncollected deferred amounts incurred by the state's public utilities as a result of this program.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SCR 64 (Calderon-D) Electrical generating facilities
Declares the support of the Legislature for measures to encourage the development of new electrical generating facilities in California.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SJR 15 (Florez-D) Telecommunications: caller identification spoofing
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to enact the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007, with specified amendments.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SJR 27 (Kehoe-D) Federal tax credits: renewable energy technologies
Encourages the Congress and the President of the United States to provide a long-term extension of the investment and production tax credit for all renewable energy technologies.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2008

SJR 35 (Padilla-D) Broadband Internet access
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation that will promote public programs to stimulate the building of high speed Internet networks, establish a national goal for access to networks, and improve data collection.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SR 24 (Romero-D) Digital Television Education Month
Designates May 2008 as Digital Television Education Month in California.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 80 (Krekorian-D) Energy efficiency: school facilities
Requires the State Architect to incorporate specified energy efficiency standards as a condition of certification for school facilities constructed or modernized with state funds.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 88* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: public utilities
Enacts the 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill which, among other provisions, restores $2.5 million to the administrative budget of the Public Utilities Commission that was removed due to the implementation of the Institute for Climate Solutions. The Resources Trailer Bill includes language requiring the Public Utilities Commission to return to the Legislature for authorization to create the Institute for Climate Solutions. Includes a $150 million loan from various accounts to the General Fund, consistent with other various approved loans.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2008 -- Item Veto

AB 94 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Renewable energy: public utilities
Eliminates and amends sections of the Public Utilities Code that reference the Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935. Makes numerous technical changes to provisions of state law relating to public utilities.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 99 (Feuer-D) Clean alternative fuels
Requires the Air Resources Board, in consultation with the California Energy Commission, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies to develop and adopt regulations by 6/30/09 that become operative no later than 1/1/10. Ensures that commencing 1/1/12, 50% of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California are clean alternative vehicles, and commencing 1/1/20, all new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California are clean alternative vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 114 (Blakeslee-R) Carbon dioxide containment program
Requires the California Energy Commission, by 11/1/09, to report to the Legislature on technology to capture and contain carbon dioxide emissions from thermal powerplants and other industrial processes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 133 (Garcia-R) Powerplants: economic development capital investment
Includes, within the types of businesses that operate a qualified manufacturing facility, a business engaged in the operation of a powerplant used for the production of electricity from one or more specified energy sources in the capital investment incentive program.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 153 (Blakeslee-R) Energy Biosciences Institute
Calls for the establishment of an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in California. States the economic and environmental benefits of locating the EBI in California, urges the University of California to enter into a partnership with British Petroleum to establish the EBI, and declares legislative intent that the state provides the University of California with $40 million in the 2007-08 Budget Act to construct the EBI.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 154* (Nakanishi-R) Energy efficient commercial buildings
Defines an energy efficient commercial building property as that which meets specific federal energy efficiency standards and is installed as part of (1) a certified interior lighting system, (2) a heating, cooling, ventilation or hot water system, or (3) a building envelope. Limits the deduction to the product of $1.80 times the square footage of the building for property resulting in at least a 50% reduction in energy use relative to an identified building standard, limits the deductions to the product of 60 cents times the total square footage of the building for qualifying property not resulting in at least a 50% reduction in power usage, and applies to property placed into service between 1/31/05 and 1/1/08 which receives certification between 1/1/08 and 12/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 155* (Nakanishi-R) Energy efficient homes
Provides a credit to a qualified taxpayer for the taxable year in which a qualified energy efficient home is certified. Defines "qualified energy efficient home" as a dwelling unit located in California that is certified, as required for the credit claimed. Awards a credit of $2,000, provided that the qualified energy efficient home is certified and specified conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 231 (Eng-D) Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act
Makes clarifying changes to the definition of what types of telephone services are assessed fees to fund the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Account.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 255 (De Leon-D) Clean air and energy independence
Increases, from $12 to $16, the annual Smog Abatement Fee imposed on newer motor vehicles exempt from biennial inspection under the state Smog Check program, and earmarks the additional revenue to provide subsidies for the development and use of alternative fuels.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 533 (Galgiani-D) Local publicly owned electric utilities: cost responsibility
Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from imposing a cost responsibility surcharge, as defined, on a customer of a local publicly owned electric utility, if the customer's service location has not previously received service from an electrical corporation, and if the customer's service location is within the service territory of an irrigation district meeting certain requirements.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 578 (Blakeslee-R) Energy: distributed energy generation: study
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to study and submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor, by 1/1/09, on the impacts of distributed energy generation on the state's distribution and transmission grid.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2008

AB 588 (De Leon-D) Public utilities: credit history
Permits privately and publicly owned utilities to release a customer's service payment history to a financial institution upon express written consent of the customer, and if a customer revokes consent, requires the utilities to comply with the revocation within a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 60 days.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 625 (Levine-D) Energy: efficiency retrofits
Provides that the proceeds from the settlement of the legal proceedings against the Williams Companies, Inc. and Williams Energy Marketing and Trading Company, received for energy efficiency retrofit of schools and public buildings, may be allocated to energy conservation projects and related educational services at the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 719 (DeVore-R) Energy: electrical generation
Creates the California Zero Carbon Dioxide Emission Electrical Generation Act, repealing the moratorium on the building of new nuclear fusion power plants in California.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 722 (Levine-D) Energy: general service lamp
Phases in minimum energy efficiency requirements for general purpose light bulbs over a six-year period.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 746 (Krekorian-D) Public resources: energy conservation assistance
Extends the operation provisions of the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account to 1/1/21, and, thereby, makes an appropriation by extending the time during which the funds in a continuously appropriated account are made available.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 811* (Levine-D) Energy: distributed generation renewable energy sources
Authorizes all cities and counties in California to designate areas within which city officials and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources and energy efficiency improvements.
Chapter 159, Statutes of 2008

AB 817 (Maze-R) Mutual water companies
Requires each mutual water company to have a supervisory committee that will be responsible for reviewing policies and control procedures to safeguard against fraud and self-dealing.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 826 (Levine-D) Telecommunications
Directs the Public Utilities Commission to require a telephone corporation to provide additional disclosures to customers relating to bundles products and services, marketing confirmation of orders, descriptions and costs of services, and the need to obtain a customer's express consent to access proprietary customer information.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 873 (Davis-D) Public utilities: procurement
Requires every water corporation with gross annual revenues exceeding $25 million to submit to the Public Utilities Commission annual plans for increasing procurement from women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises.
Chapter 316, Statutes of 2008

AB 882* (Hernandez-D) Energy efficient products: sales tax exemption
Exempts the sale or use of energy efficient products from state sales use taxes during a specified period each year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 891 (De La Torre-D) Telecommunications: consumer protection
Enacts the Truth in Telecommunications Act which requires, among other things, a contract or agreement for telecommunications services to be provided in the language in which the contract was negotiated, and requires the contract to clearly and conspicuously disclose key rates, terms, and conditions of service to be provided or product to be purchased.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 940 (Krekorian-D) Solar energy
Requires the Office of Planning and Research to report recommendations for streamlining the siting of solar energy facilities and related transmission facilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 942 (Krekorian-D) Solar energy
Authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to expend funds from the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account to make loans to a person to fund the installation of a solar energy system in a primary private residence owned by the loan applicant. Specifies the terms for the issuance, amount, and repayment of the loan.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1046 (Leno-D) Nuclear fission thermal powerplants
Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from authorizing an investor-owned utility to recover costs associated with filing an application for license renewal with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, until the California Energy Commission has assessed the potential state and local impacts associated with on-site storage of nuclear waste at nuclear power plants.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1064 (Lieber-D) Energy: self-generation incentive program
Revises the Self-Generation Incentive Program. Extends, until 1/1/12, the program for nonsolar distributed generation resources
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1065 (Lieber-D) Energy: building standards: greenhouse gas
Requires the California Energy Commission to revise its building energy efficiency standards to reduce the consumption of energy from off-site sources in new homes and new non-residential buildings.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1157 (Ruskin-D) Public Utilities Commission
Makes changes to the governance of the Public Utilities Commission and makes additional parties eligible to receive intervener compensation for participation in Commission proceedings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1223 (Arambula-D) Public utilities: net energy metering
Permits an agricultural customer, who uses solar or wind generation to offset the customer's own electrical needs, to aggregate the electricity use of properties adjacent or contiguous to the generator that are under the same ownership, to its full electricity usage over a 12-month cycle at the retail rate.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 1234 (Wolk-D) Furnaces: Public Utilities Commission review
Establishes that a dwelling unit containing a floor furnace after 1/1/14, shall be deemed untenantable. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a new program to run from 7/1/08 to 12/31/13, to replace gas floor furnaces in residential dwelling units occupied by customers who are eligible for the electrical corporations' and gas corporations' low-income energy efficiency programs. Whenever feasible, the floor furnaces are to be replaced with a heating appliance other than a floor furnace.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1333 (Hancock-D) Payment of utility charges
Provides that the legal owner of real property must pay the utilities provided to a property or its tenants following a foreclosure under specified circumstances. Allows a municipal utility district to place a lien on a property for delinquent fees or charges for the furnishing of water or sewer service to residential property, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) Energy and Utilities: budget programs
Enacts the 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions: (1) requires the Attorney General to represent the Department of Finance, and to be successor to selected remaining claims, lawsuits, and petitions filed by the Electricity Oversight Board, (2) requires the Public Utilities Commission to obtain legislative approval prior to establishing the Institute for Climate Solutions, and (3) requires the Public Utilities Commission to annually report to the Legislature on various off-budget programs and their related accounts.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2008

AB 1383 (Fuller-R) Energy and natural gas agreements: State Water Projects
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources to enter into contracts and agreements for the purchase, sale, exchange, trading, financial hedging, commodities and energy brokerage services, information subscription, transmission, or interconnection of electric power or natural gas.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1400 (Levine-D) Public Utilities Commission: renewable energy resources
Contains numerous provisions relating to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), renewable energy resources, and rates. Requires the Governor to appoint, subject to the approval of the Senate, a president of the PUC from among its members and repeals the requirement that the president direct PUC staff.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 1428 (Galgiani-D) Energy: agricultural byproducts customer-generator program
Replaces the existing pilot program for eligible biogas digester customer-generators, with a net energy metering program for eligible customer-generators to generate electricity.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1451* (Leno-D) Solar energy systems: property taxation
Extends the current exclusion from "new construction" for active solar energy systems from 2008-09 fiscal year and extends the exclusion for active solar energy property to initial purchasers of new specified buildings.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2008

AB 1489 (Levine-D) Public utilities
Requires the Governor to appoint, subject to the approval of the Senate, a president of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) from among its members and repeals the requirement that the president direct PUC staff. Requires the office of the PUC to be in the City of Sacramento and requires the PUC to hold at least one session in each calendar month in that city.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1506 (Arambula-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: U.C. Study
Requires the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to conduct a study of the most effective ways for the state to provide incentives to businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase California's energy independence and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before 1/1/09. Makes legislative findings relative to increased energy costs, the threats of climate change to California businesses, and the role of business incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1532 (Parra-D) Public utilities: crude oil imports
Requires the Air Resources Board, when establishing the low carbon fuel standard pursuant to Executive Order S-01-07, to ensure that the standards do not increase the state's overall dependence on crude oil imports.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 1552 (Feuer-D) Petroleum products: information
Permits the Board of Equalization, the California Energy Commission, and the Attorney General to have access to similar information about refiners and major marketers of petroleum products under specified circumstances.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1610 (Nunez-D) Fuels: refineries
Requires specified information from refineries, clarifies and expands the California Energy Commissions role in collecting the desired maintenance information, and authorizes inspections of refineries and the adjustment of scheduled maintenance activity.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 1620 (Arambula-D) California Clean Technology Services Unit
Establishes the California Clean Technology Services Unit within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to promote the development of environmentally-friendly technologies, to help businesses bring clean technology to California, and to work in coordination with other state agencies to maximize the state's efforts to maintain an innovative and entrepreneurial environment that supports the achievement of the state's environmental goals and standards. Sunsets on 1/1/13.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1647 (De La Torre-D) Video service: customer service standards
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a rulemaking or other appropriate proceeding, and in consultation with local entities, to adopt customer service standards for video service providers that ensure capable and responsive customer service.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1755 (Fuentes-D) Electricity: rates: plant held for future use account
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to review its Plant Held for Future Use Guidelines and determine whether it needs to open a proceeding to adjust the time period allowed for property to be held by an electric utility when the property is located within a transmission corridor zone.
Vetoed

AB 1763 (Blakeslee-R) Energy: billing information
Requires each electrical and gas corporation to disclose and itemize the charges for each rate block on residential customers' billing statements and provide information on how the customer can reduce energy usage.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 2008

AB 1776 (DeVore-R) Energy: nuclear powerplant
Repeals the "moratorium" on the construction of new nuclear fission power plants in California and establishes new conditions on siting new nuclear plants related to seismic hazard, cooling water outflow and waste storage.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1807 (Fuentes-D) Renewable electric generation facilities: feed-in tariffs
Requires every electrical corporation to file with the Public Utilities Commission a feed-in tariff for the electricity delivered to the grid that is generated by a renewable electric generation facility, as defined, that is an eligible renewable energy resource and meets other size, deliverability, and interconnection requirements. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop a methodology for determining a base rate to be paid for electricity that is generated by a renewable electric generation facility and to adjust the base rate to be paid in future years so that the base rate declines over time to reflect improvements in technology and operational practices.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1892 (Smyth-R) Solar energy: common interest developments
Provides that any provision in the governing documents of a common interest development that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a solar energy system is void and unenforceable, except as specified. Does not prevent the inclusion of reasonable restrictions on the use of solar energy systems in those documents.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2008

AB 1909* (Hayashi-D) Energy: thermal powerplant certification
Requires the California Energy Commission to obtain approval from the local governing body if the proposed site for a powerplant is in the City of Hayward and that city has a pre-certified powerplant.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1920 (Huffman-D) Solar and wind generating resources
Amends the statute governing new energy metering to require investor owned and municipal utilities to compensate customer generators for excess electricity produced. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt, by 1/1/10, a net surplus electricity compensation rate.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1973* (Ruskin-D) Public Utilities Commission
Requires Senate confirmation of the Governor-appointed president of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Makes changes to the governance of the PUC by permitting the PUC to direct the executive director and attorney, instead of the president. Repeals the PUC exemption to the Administrative Procedures Act and requires every quasi-legislative PUC proceeding to be subject to the Act.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

AB 1977 (Benoit-R) Telecommunications
Clarifies the procedure by which public safety agencies can obtain customer information from telecommunications corporations.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2003* (Saldana-D) Energy: Climate Protection and Energy Efficiency Bond Act
Authorizes, subject to voter approval at the 11/4/08 statewide election, $2 billion worth of state general obligation bonds to fund alternative energy development projects, energy conservation and efficiency projects in low-income communities, and energy efficiency projects for facilities of the state and public schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2009 (Hernandez-D) Utility user taxes: exemption
Provides that, for purposes of the statute permitting counties to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of gas, the term "gas" shall not be construed as referring to the consumption of compressed natural gas dispensed by a gas compressor, within a local jurisdiction, that is dedicated to providing compressed natural gas as a motor vehicle fuel for use by the local agency or public transit operator.
Chapter 221, Statutes of 2008

AB 2030 (Lieu-D) Energy: building standards
Requires the California Energy Commission to adopt design and construction standards that require new nonresidential commercial construction starting 1/1/30, to be "zero net energy" buildings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2112 (Saldana-D) Energy: building standards
Requires the California Energy Commission to require that new residential construction commenced on or after 1/1/20, or on a date when the Commission determines that the use of photovoltaic technology is cost effective, whichever is later, use zero net-energy.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 2144 (Smyth-R) Green buildings: state building standards
Requires the California Building Standards Commission to develop the California Green Building Program as a model program for use by local jurisdictions interested in promoting voluntary green building standards for commercial buildings that are more stringent than those adopted by the Commission.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2176 (Caballero-D) Energy: federal block grants
Requires the California Energy Commission to administer funds allocated to the state from the federal Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 for cost-effective energy efficiency measures.
Chapter 229, Statutes of 2008

AB 2180 (Lieu-D) Solar energy
Requires a homeowners association in a common interest development to respond to a request from a member to install a solar energy system in his/her separate interest within 60 days.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2008

AB 2192 (Levine-D) Telecommunications: universal service
States legislative intent to update the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act in order to preserve its universal service goals as communications service technologies expand.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

AB 2224 (De La Torre-D) California Clean Energy Curriculum and Training Initiative
Establishes the California Clean Energy Curriculum and Training Initiative and requires the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to develop a standardized training curriculum for use at schools and provide outreach, assistance, and guidance on creating clean energy training programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2232 (De La Torre-D) Telephone corporations: state video franchise holders
Requires that a background check be conducted for all individuals entering a home of a customer on behalf of a video franchise holder, a telephone corporation, or a satellite television provider. States legislative intent that the well-being of employees of video service providers be promoted.
Chapter 195, Statutes of 2008

AB 2267 (Fuentes-D) Energy: California-based entities
Requires the California Energy Commission to give priority to California-based entities in making awards pursuant to the Public Interest Energy Research program and provides a 20% additional incentive for California suppliers that install eligible distributed generation resources for the Self-Generation Investment Program
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2008

AB 2269 (Fuentes-D) Renewable energy resources: solar energy systems
Exempts the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from the requirements in the California Solar Initiative that require the monetary incentives to be allocated directly to customers who install solar energy systems on their own property to primarily serve their own demand.
Vetoed

AB 2307 (Price-D) Telephone services: change in telephone service provider
Allows telephone subscribers to verify their decision to change residential telephone service either through an independent third party verification or by use of electronic signature or electronic authorization that is consistent with federal regulations.
Chapter 162, Statutes of 2008

AB 2309 (DeSaulnier-D) Energy conservation: residential energy efficiency audit
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine whether to require electrical corporations to provide in-home owner-requested energy efficiency audits, and make recommendations to the owner on cost-effective measures that decrease the buildings energy usage.
Vetoed

AB 2385 (Ruskin-D) Telecommunications: mobile telephony services
Prohibits a business entity, in the business of aggregating or generating phone numbers into a directory or database, from posting, displaying, selling or releasing to the public any phone number without first obtaining the express consent of the subscriber.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2404 (Salas-D) Energy efficiency: water efficiency programs
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to report to the Legislature by 3/31/10, the outcome of a pilot project the Commission established to determine whether cost-effective energy efficiency improvements could be achieved by water conservation projects, and make recommendations as to whether the utilities would or could achieve cost-effective energy efficiency improvements through water conservation programs.
Chapter 240, Statutes of 2008

AB 2432 (Laird-D) State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission
Expands the funding permitted under the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Program to include climate change mitigation and adaptation, including assistance to state agencies.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

AB 2466 (Laird-D) Local government renewable energy self-generation program
Authorizes a local government entity to receive a credit on their electric bill for power generated from a renewable energy facility that generates more energy than is needed to serve the electrical load of governmental entity owned or controlled site where the facility is located.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2008

AB 2488* (Houston-R) Renewable energy development: tax deduction
Allows a taxpayer to take an alternative depreciation deduction for the costs of acquiring machines and equipment that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or produce, generate, or store renewable energy from specified sources.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2511 (Salas-D) Public utilities: bill payment
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt rules that prohibits a public utility from approving a licensee under the California Deferred Deposit Transaction Law to be an additional authorized payment location, as defined, and requires the Commission to ensure compliance with this requirement. Requires a public utility that, prior to 1/1/09, approves a licensee to be an authorized payment location to actively search for alternative locations for customers to pay billings from the utility, and to discontinue using a licensee as an authorized location when an adequate alternative has been obtained.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2578 (Lieu-D) Public Utilities Commission: procedures and remedies
Enhances the ability of the Public Utilities Commission to collect fines and restitution from individuals who engaged in fraudulent activities that are regulated by the Commission.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2008

AB 2678 (Nunez-D) Energy: energy audit
Requires the California Energy Commission, by 3/1/09, to establish a regulatory proceeding to develop a comprehensive program to achieve greater energy savings in the state's residential and nonresidential building stock.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2768 (Levine-D) Energy: solar energy systems: pricing
Deletes a requirement that ratepayers who install solar energy systems be on a time-variant pricing tariff. Eliminates time-of-use rates for customers obtaining the California Solar Initiative subsidy and grants the Public Utilities Commission discretion to develop a time-variant tariff.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2775 (Smyth-R) Public utilities: plant held for future use account
Authorizes electrical corporations to acquire property for future electrical transmission and nontransmission purposes, and carry this property with the "plant held for future use account" after approval by the Public Utilities Commission.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 2788 (DeVore-R) Energy: nuclear powerplant: certification
Exempts from the California Energy Commission power plant certification laws the first nuclear power plant to obtain an early site permit from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2789 (Blakeslee-R) Small wind energy systems
Requires cities and counties to administratively approve applications to install small wind energy systems by issuing building permits or similar nondiscretionary permits.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2790 (Blakeslee-R) Energy: sustainable biofuel resource
Requires the California Energy Commission to establish a voluntary program to certify eligible biofuels as a "California sustainable biofuel resource."
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2791 (Blakeslee-R) Energy: Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act
Expands the definition of "eligible customer" under the Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act to include a federal, state, or local government facility. Prohibits any state agency's acquisition of a combined heat and power facility, financed pursuant to the Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act, until legislative notification, as specified, has been made by the Department of Finance.
Chapter 253, Statutes of 2008

AB 2792 (Blakeslee-R) California Conservation Corps: Green Collar Certification
Requires the Director of the California Conservation Corps to establish a "Green Collar" Certification Program to provide corps members with skills and education related to energy efficiency measures in homes and buildings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2804 (Hayashi-D) Renewable energy resources: California Solar Initiative
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to grant a school district or community college as extension on the time frame after the school has applied for a rebate under the California Solar Initiative in which the school must install a solar energy system and still be eligible for rebates by up to 540 days (three 180-day extensions).
Chapter 542, Statutes of 2008

AB 2830 (Nakanishi-R) Wind energy
Provides that covenants, restrictions, or conditions that effectively prohibit or restrict the installation or use of a wind energy system are void and unenforceable. Provides that whenever approval is required for the installation or use of a wind energy system, the application for approval shall be processed and approved by the appropriate approving entity in the same manner as an application for approval of an architectural modification to the property, and shall not be willfully avoided or delayed. Specifies that any managing association of a common interest development may impose reasonable provisions relating to this matter, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2857 (Lieber-D) California Alternative Rates for Energy: eligibility
Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from denying eligibility for the California Alternative Rates for Energy program for residents or tenants of a master-metered mobilehome park on the basis that some units in the complex are not submetered.
Chapter 536, Statutes of 2008

AB 2863 (Leno-D) Independent solar energy producers: master-meter customers
Exempts an "independent solar energy producer," as defined, from regulation as an electricity producer. Defines an independent solar energy producer and exempts it from the definition of an electrical corporation (and therefore, regulation as a utility company) much like existing law for cogeneration where a utility customer generates power on their own side of the meter. If an independent solar energy producer contracts with a customer for the delivery of electricity with a solar energy generation system on the customer's side of the meter, specified contract disclosures is required as well as a notice of the existence of the contract filed with the county recorder's office.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2008

AB 2885 (De La Torre-D) Telecommunications: mobile telephony service
Grants the Public Utilities Commission the authority to protect consumers of prepaid calling cards by enforcing existing customer protection measures in the Business and Professions Code against the prepaid calling card providers.
Chapter 745, Statutes of 2008

AB 2916 (Nunez-D) State buildings
Requires, by 1/1/15, that the total amount of energy consumed in buildings owned by the state shall decrease by 20% of the total used during 2008. Requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the Department of General Services (DGS), before 7/1/09, to develop guidelines to ensure that buildings owned or leased by the state are operated in an energy and resource efficient manner. Requires that proposals to fund infrastructure under the Governor's five-year infrastructure plan contain a description of the way a proposal is consistent with the CEC's guidelines. Requires DGS to assess each building owned or leased by the state and submit the assessments to the Legislature. Expands information that DGS is required to include in the multiyear plan it proposes and requires DGS develop and coordinate a plan to achieve the energy efficiency goals for state owned buildings.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2985 (Duvall-R) Household goods and passenger carriers
Requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct an audit and a comprehensive review of the programs established by the Charter-Party Carriers' Act to recommend any statutory modifications to these programs, taking into account the goals of reducing regulatory burdens, while ensuring consumer protection and public safety.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 3011 (Huffman-D) Telephone records: subscriber information
Clarifies that current privacy protections in place for telephone customers, also apply to mobile telephone providers.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 3023 (Levine-D) Energy: Hybrid Swimming Pool Heating Act
Enacts the Hybrid Swimming Pool Heating Act. Requires all new and existing swimming pool gas customers to have a hybrid solar-gas swimming pool heating system for the swimming pool.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 3030 (Brownley-D) Local publicly owned water utility: rate cases
Authorizes an agency providing water, sewer, or refuse collection service to adopt a schedule of fees or charges for a property-related service for a period not to exceed five years.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2008

AB 3048 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Public utilities: local publicly owned electric utilities
Makes minor technical changes to clarify code to provide conformity in the Public Utilities Code. Defines "utility," "electric service provider," "eligible renewable energy resources," "renewables portfolio standard," and "solar energy systems." Eliminates references to the Public Utilities Holding Companies Act, which was repealed by the federal Energy Act of 2005. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to publish a specific report on the costs included in rates on its web site. Includes a provision that allows a worker, either an employee of the utility or a contractor for that utility, to be exempt from certification.
Chapter 558, Statutes of 2008

AB 3058* (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Electric power contracts: just and reasonable charges
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to review any modification or renegotiation of a power purchase agreement entered into by the Department of Water Resources after 12/31/07, to determine whether the cost and administration of the proposed modification or renegotiation is just and reasonable.
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2008

AB 5XX (DeVore-R) Water: electricity for desalination: nuclear energy
Authorizes the California Energy Commission to certify one new nuclear fission thermal reactor located at the site of an existing operating nuclear fission thermal powerplant if not less than 20% of the electricity generated by the reactor is dedicated to powering desalinization facilities to produce additional fresh water from salt water and the generating capacity of the reactor does not exceed 2,000 megawatts.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

ACR 12 (Parra-D) Agriculture: frost damage
Requests the Public Utilities Commission to cooperate with the state's public utilities in immediately approving advice filings to establish appropriate payment deferral programs for citrus and other affected growers whose crops were destroyed as a result of the cold storms and consequent frost damage that occurred in January 2007. Requests the Commission to authorize recovery for the actual administrative costs, with the exception of interest foregone on deferred amounts, and recovery of uncollected deferred amounts incurred by the state's public utilities as a result of this program.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AJR 3 (Dymally-D) Low-income home energy assistance
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to increase the federal budget authorization for the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to $7 billion for the 2007-08 fiscal year and appropriate that entire amount for distribution to the states.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AJR 50 (Fuentes-D) Federal renewable energy tax credits
Urges the Congress and the President of the United States to enact a multi-year extension of the investment and production tax credits for renewable energy as soon as possible.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AJR 51 (Nava-D) Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium
Requests that the Congress of the United States continue the federal offshore oil and gas leasing moratorium for the 2009 fiscal year and beyond, and expresses opposition to certain provisions of proposed federal energy policies and legislation.
Resolution Chapter 146, Statutes of 2008

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