BILL NUMBER: SB 1035	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hueso

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2016

   An act to amend Sections 910.4 and 910.5 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to the Public Utilities Commission.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1035, as introduced, Hueso. Public Utilities Commission:
reports.
   The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities
Commission, with jurisdiction over all public utilities. The
California Constitution grants the commission certain general powers
over all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature, and
authorizes the Legislature to confer additional authority and
jurisdiction upon the commission that is cognate and germane to the
regulation of public utilities.
   Existing law requires the commission, by January 10 of each year,
to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and appropriate
fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature on all sources and
amounts of funding and actual and proposed expenditures related to
specified entities or programs established by the commission and
related to interactions by the commission, its officers, or its staff
with the California Public Utilities Commission Foundation.
   This bill would instead require that the commission report the
above-described information by February 1 of each year.
   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 910.4 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   910.4.  By  January 10   February 1  of
each year, the commission shall report to the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee and appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the
Legislature, on all sources and amounts of funding and actual and
proposed expenditures, both in the two prior fiscal years and for the
proposed fiscal year, including any costs to ratepayers, related to
both of the following:
   (a) Entities or programs established by the commission by order,
decision, motion, settlement, or other action, including, but not
limited to, the California Clean Energy Fund, the California Emerging
Technology Fund, and the Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands
Stewardship Council. The report shall contain descriptions of
relevant issues, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

   (1) Any governance structure established for an entity or program.

   (2) Any staff or employees hired by or for the entity or program
and their salaries and expenses.
   (3) Any staff or employees transferred or loaned internally or
interdepartmentally for the entity or program and their salaries and
expenses.
   (4) Any contracts entered into by the entity or program, the
funding sources for those contracts, and the legislative authority
under which the commission entered into the contract.
   (5) The public process and oversight governing the entity or
program's activities.
   (b) Entities or programs established by the commission, other than
those expressly authorized by statute, under the following sections:

   (1) Section 379.6.
   (2) Section 399.8.
   (3) Section 739.1.
   (4) Section 2790.
   (5) Section 2851.
  SEC. 2.  Section 910.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   910.5.  (a) By  January 10   February 1 
of each year, the commission shall report to the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee and appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the
Legislature, on all sources and amounts of funding and actual and
proposed expenditures, both in the two prior fiscal years and for the
proposed fiscal year, including any costs to ratepayers, related to
interactions by the commission, its officers, or its staff with the
California Public Utilities Commission Foundation, or any derivative,
or successor, or with any agent or director of the foundation,
including all of the following:
   (1) Attendance at meetings, conferences, or events organized or
sponsored by the foundation.
   (2) Any contract or other agreement between the commission, its
officers, or its staff and the foundation, including agreements
relating to attendance at any educational or training conference or
event.
   (3) Any agenda item, order, decision, resolution, or motion,
referencing the foundation.
   (4) Endorsements of the foundation or its activities.
   (5) Any contribution made to the foundation at the behest of a
member of the commission, its officers, or its staff, and any direct
or indirect contribution made to the foundation by a member of the
commission, its officers, or its staff. For purposes of this
paragraph, "contribution" means any payment, a forgiveness of a loan,
a payment of a loan by a third party, or an enforceable promise to
make a payment, except to the extent that full and adequate
consideration is received.
   (b) (1) Within eight weeks of any contribution to the foundation
made at the behest of a member of the commission, its officers, or
its staff, the commission shall report the contribution to the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee and appropriate fiscal and policy
committees of the Legislature, and include any documents pertaining
to the contribution.
   (2) Each report shall include certification from the commission
that the contribution does not violate the Conflict of Interest Code
and Statement of Incompatible Activities adopted pursuant to Section
303.