BILL NUMBER: AB 1108 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 20, 2010
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 17, 2010
AMENDED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 17, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 15, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 29, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 4, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 22, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Fuentes
( Coauthor: Assembly Member
Bradford )
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to add and repeal Section 2800 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to utility service.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1108, as amended, Fuentes. Electric and gas utility service:
master-meter customers.
Existing law authorizes the owner of a master-metered mobilehome
park or manufactured housing community that provides gas or electric
service to residents to transfer ownership and operational
responsibility for its gas or electric system to the gas or
electrical corporation providing service in the area in which the
park or community is located, pursuant to specified transfer and cost
allocation procedures.
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission, by July
1, 2011, to open an investigation or other appropriate proceeding to
evaluate and report to the Legislature, by January 1, 2013
2014 , when an owner of a
master-metered mobilehome park or manufactured housing
community that provides master-metered gas or electric
service to its residents of the park or community should
be required to transfer responsibility for gas or electric service to
the gas or electrical corporation providing service in the area in
which the park or community is located, along with those plant,
facilities, and interests in real property that the commission,
in consultation with the gas or electrical corporation ,
determines are necessary, convenient, or cost effective to
provide service. The bill would require the commission to
consult with the Department of Housing and Community Development and
county departments of weights and measures, to identify those
master-metered mobilehome parks and manufactured housing communities
with unsafe or substandard conditions that should be transferred
include in the report a recommended
phase-in schedule for potential transfers, the estimated costs and
benefits to the gas or electrical corporations for the transfer of
responsibility, and the potential benefits or costs to affected
residents and ratepayers. The bill would require the commission, in
consultation with the Department of Housing and Community
Development, to develop a system for any inspections that may be
necessary to define, find, determine, or prioritize unsafe or
substandard master-metered systems, but the bill would specify that
this provision not be interpreted to require physical inspections of
gas or electric systems .
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 2800 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
2800. (a) By July 1, 2011, the commission shall open an
investigation or other appropriate proceeding to evaluate and report
to the Legislature when the owner of a master-metered
mobilehome park or manufactured housing community that
provides gas or electric service to
master-metered gas or electric service to its residents should
be required to transfer responsibility for gas or electric service to
the gas or electrical corporation providing service in the area in
which the park or community is located, along with those plant,
facilities, and interests in real property that the gas or
electrical corporation commission, in consultation
with the gas or electrical corporation, determines are
necessary, convenient, or cost effective to provide service.
(b) The commission shall consult with the Department of Housing
and Community Development and the county departments of weights and
measures to identify those gas or electric systems with unsafe or
substandard conditions that should be transferred. The report shall
include a recommended phase-in schedule for the potential transfers
and the estimated costs to the gas or electrical corporations for the
transfers of responsibility.
(b) The commission shall include in the report developed pursuant
to subdivision (a) a recommended phase-in schedule for potential
transfers, the estimated costs and benefits to the gas or electrical
corporations for the transfer of responsibility, the potential costs
or benefits to the residents currently served by the master-metered
systems, and the potential benefits or costs to ratepayers.
(c) As part of the investigation or proceeding required pursuant
to subdivision (a), the commission, in consultation with the
Department of Housing and Community Development, shall develop a
system, including protocols, standards, or criteria, for any
inspections that may be necessary to define, find, determine, or
prioritize unsafe or substandard systems, as determined by the
commission in consultation with the Department of Housing and
Community Development, that should be transferred to a gas or
electrical corporation. When developing this system, the commission
shall consider safety or other complaint records to establish
priorities for any necessary inspections.
(d) This section shall not be interpreted to require physical
inspections of gas or electric systems. To the extent feasible, the
commission shall rely on existing data or information from sources
such as a state or local agency, a gas or electrical corporation, or
an owner of mobilehome park or manufactured housing community to
prepare the report required pursuant to subdivision (a). Upon request
by the commission or Department of Housing and Community
Development, an owner of mobilehome park or manufactured housing
community shall submit information on the location or type of its gas
or electric system or any other reasonable information deemed
necessary to prepare the report.
(c)
(e) The report shall balance the goal of providing
residents of mobilehome parks and manufactured housing communities
with gas and electric service that is as safe and reliable as that
which the commission requires gas and electrical corporations to
supply to residential customers and the requirement of fairness to
the gas or electrical corporation's ratepayers, who have already
reimbursed the master-meter customer for maintenance costs, operating
costs, return on investment, and depreciation, as well as other
costs associated with providing submetered
master-metered electric and gas service, through the rate
differential afforded master-meter customers pursuant to Section
739.5.
(d)
(f) The commission shall report the plan to the
Legislature no later than January 1, 2013
2014 . The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section
9795 of the Government Code.
(e)
(g) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code,
this section is repealed on January 1, 2017
2018 .