UTILITIES

• AB 1879 (Santiago) This bill requires specified notification actions if the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) determines that a moratorium on new natural gas service connections is necessary to prevent substantial and imminent harm or to ensure gas system reliability, including requiring a report to the Legislature and the affected gas corporation stating the necessity for the action and requiring a gas corporation to immediately notify potential or current customers that may experience a service impact as a result of the proposed suspension. This bill declares that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

An act to add Section 2775.7 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas corporations, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• AB 2068 (Chu) This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to direct each of the state’s electrical and gas investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to evaluate and report to the CPUC the feasibility and economic impacts of establishing discounted utility rates applicable to customers who are public schools. This bill requires the CPUC to compile these reports and submit this compilation to the Legislature, by January 1, 2020.

An act to add Section 749.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.

• AB 2179 (Gipson) Authorizes a municipal corporation to utilize alternative procedures to lease, sell, or transfer a municipal utility used for furnishing sewer service.

An act to amend Section 10061 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to utility service.

• AB 2329 (Obernolte) Increases the amount of compensation board members of certain special districts can receive per month.

An act to amend Sections 9031, 13857, and 32103 of the Health and Safety Code, to amend Sections 5536 and 5784.15 of the Public Resources Code, and to amend Section 22407 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to special districts.

• AB 2339 (Gipson) Authorizes the Cities of El Monte, Montebello, and Willows, until January 1, 2022, to sell their water systems for the purpose of consolidating with another public water system without obtaining voter approval.

An act to add and repeal Section 37420.5 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 10061 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to water.

• AB 2831 (Limón) This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to ensure that adequate outreach is conducted to ensure that small business customers can fully participate in energy demand management programs.

An act to amend Section 323.5 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 237 (Hertzberg) This bill would direct the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to make changes to the existing direct access (DA) service program, which authorizes direct energy transactions between electricity suppliers and retail end-use customers. Among the proposed changes is a requirement to increase the annual maximum allowable limit of the DA service program by 4,000 gigawatt hour (GWH) for non-residential customers. This bill also directs the CPUC to provide recommendations to the Legislature, with specified findings, on the adoption and implementation of a second direct service transactions reopening schedule.

An act to amend Section 365.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.

• SB 959 (Beall) This bill requires each large water corporation to maintain, for a specified period of time, on its Internet Web site an archive of all advice letters filed with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on or after January 1, 2019.

An act to add Section 2715 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to water corporations.

• SB 1028 (Hill) This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to evaluate the full effect of the recently adopted federal corporate tax cuts on the expenses and tax liabilities incurred by investor-owned utilities (IOUs) for payment of federal taxes and adjust the rates of the utilities to reflect any changes.

An act to add Section 751 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utility rates.

• SB 1076 (Hertzberg) This bill requires the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to develop preparedness recommendations to harden the critical infrastructure of the electrical utilities against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, geomagnetic storm event, or other long-term outage.

An act to add Section 8570.6 to the Government Code, relating to emergency preparedness.

• SB 1090 (Monning) This bill would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to approve collection of ratepayer funds for previously denied elements of Application 16-08-006 (application) filed by Pacific, Gas & Electric (PG&E) to facilitate and support the retirement of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (Diablo Canyon).

An act to add Section 712.7 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.

• SB 1110 (Bradford) This bill provides local publicly owned electric utilities (POUs) with additional flexibility in complying with the state’s requirements to procure renewable energy. Specifically, this bill authorizes POUs to mitigate against the loss of public revenues if complying with the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) would lead to decreased generation from a power plant with outstanding public indebtedness that meets specified criteria.

An act to add Section 399.33 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 1136 (Hertzberg) This bill revises existing statute that requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in consultation with the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), to establish resource adequacy (RA) requirements for the state’s electric “load-serving entities” (LSEs).

An act to amend Section 380 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.

• SB 1338 (Hueso) Prohibits a gas or electric corporations (IOUs) from disconnecting service where a physician assistant certifies that gas or electric service is medically necessary to sustain the life of a customer or to prevent deterioration of that person’s medical condition. This bill would also require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to develop rules requiring each of the four largest IOUs to demonstrate that they are working with the medical community to increase outreach to persons eligible for the medical baseline allowance.

An act to amend Sections 739 and 779.3 of, and to add Section 779.4 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy rates.

• SB 1339 (Stern) This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in consultation with the California Energy Commission (CEC), and the Independent System Operator (CAISO), to take specified actions by December 1, 2020, to facilitate the commercialization of microgrids for distribution customers of large electrical corporations. This bill requires the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility (POU) to develop and make available a standardized process for the interconnection of a customer-supported microgrid, including separate electrical rates and tariffs, as necessary.

An act to add Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 8370) to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.

• SB 1358 (Hueso) This bill requires the assigned commissioner, rather than the full California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), to determine whether a proceeding requires a hearing.

An act to amend Sections 1701.1, 1701.2, 1701.3, and 1701.4 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to the Public Utilities Commission.

• SB 1410 (Morrell) This bill amends the threshold number of customers served by California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regulated utility that would be subject to more frequent audit requirements from over 1,000 to over 10,000 customers served.

An act to amend Section 314.5 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities.