BILL NUMBER: AB 2441	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Tom Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 785.2 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2441, as introduced, Tom Berryhill. Gas corporations: natural
gas production and storage.
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to
investigate, as part of the rate proceeding for any gas corporation,
impediments to the production and storage of natural gas within the
state. Existing law authorizes the commission to adopt a tariff that
encourages the production or storage of natural gas within the state,
including, but not limited to, reducing local transmission rates
applicable to in-state gas blends, unless the commission finds that
adopting the tariff is likely to result in consequences adverse to
the interests of gas customers.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 785.2 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   785.2.  The commission shall investigate, as part of the rate
proceeding for any gas corporation, impediments to the 
in-state  production and storage of natural gas  within
the state  . The commission may adopt a tariff that encourages
 in-state   the  production or storage of
natural gas  within the state  , including, but not limited
to, reducing local transmission rates applicable to in-state gas
blends, unless the commission finds that adopting the tariff 
will   is  likely  to  result in
consequences adverse to the interests of gas customers.