BILL NUMBER: SB 1409	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 26, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 5, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 4, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 21, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hill

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 915 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to the Public Utilities Commission.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1409, Hill. Public Utilities Commission: safety investigations.

   The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities
Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities and
authorizes the commission to establish its own procedures, subject to
statutory limitations or directions and constitutional requirements
of due process. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to
publish and maintain certain documents and information and make
specified materials available on the commission's Internet Web site.
The act requires the commission to submit certain information about
its activities to the Governor and the Legislature no later than
February 1 of each year, including a work plan describing its
scheduled ratemaking proceedings, an accounting of its transactions
and proceedings, and a report on the number of cases where resolution
of the case exceeded the time periods prescribed in scoping memos
and on the number of days that commissioners presided in hearings.
   This bill would require the commission, beginning February 1,
2016, to annually publish a report that includes all investigations
into gas or electric service safety incidents reported, pursuant to
commission requirements, by any gas corporation or electrical
corporation including the month of the safety incident, the reason
for the investigation, the facility type involved, and the owner of
the facility. The bill would require that the report succinctly
describe safety investigations concluded during the prior calendar
year and investigations that remain open. The bill would require that
the work plan submitted to the Governor and the Legislature include
a summary of staff safety investigations concluded during the prior
calendar year and staff safety investigations that remain open for
any gas corporation or electrical corporation, with a link to the
Internet Web site with the report that contains the above-described
information that the commission is required to annually report.



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

  SECTION 1.  Section 915 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   915.  (a) Beginning February 1, 2016, the commission shall
annually publish a report that includes all investigations into gas
or electric service safety incidents reported, pursuant to commission
requirements, by any gas corporation or electrical corporation. The
report shall succinctly describe each safety investigation concluded
during the prior calendar year and each investigation that remains
open. The categories within the description shall include the month
of the safety incident, the reason for the investigation, the
facility type involved, and the owner of the facility.
   (b) The commission shall include in its work plan required
pursuant Section 321.6, a summary of the staff safety investigations
concluded during the prior calendar year and the staff safety
investigations that remain open for any gas corporation or electrical
corporation, with a link to the Internet Web site with the report
that contains the information required pursuant to subdivision (a).