BILL NUMBER: AB 1390	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Utilities and Commerce (Bradford
(Chair), Fletcher (Vice Chair), Buchanan, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Gorell, Roger Hernández, Huffman, Ma, Nestande, Skinner, and Swanson)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 343 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to electricity.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1390, as introduced, Committee on Utilities and Commerce.
Energy crisis litigation.
   Prior law, until January 1, 2010, required the Attorney General to
represent the Department of Finance and to succeed to all rights,
claims, powers, and entitlements of the Electricity Oversight Board
in any litigation or settlement to obtain ratepayer recovery for the
effects of the 2000-02 energy crisis. That law additionally
prohibited the Attorney General from expending the proceeds of any
settlements of those claims, except as specified.
   This bill, until January 1, 2013, would reenact the
above-described requirements and authorizations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 343 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   343.  (a) The Attorney General shall represent the Department of
Finance and shall succeed to, and may exercise, all rights, claims,
powers, and entitlements of the Electricity Oversight Board in any
litigation or settlement to obtain ratepayer recovery for the effects
of the 2000-02 energy crisis. This section does not require the
Attorney General to litigate any claim, or take any other action, as
successor to the Electricity Oversight Board.
   (b) The Attorney General shall not distribute or expend the
proceeds of any settlements of claims described in subdivision (a),
except in accordance with Article 9.5 (commencing with Section
16428.1) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the
Government Code and Division 27 (commencing with Section 80000) of
the Water Code.
   (c) The Attorney General shall not distribute or expend the
proceeds of any settlements of claims allocated to the Electricity
Oversight Board.
   (d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends
that date.