BILL NUMBER: SB 572	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 572, as introduced, 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 those
provisions.
   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.
  gas within the state.  The commission may adopt a
tariff that encourages  in-state   the 
production or storage of natural  gas,   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.