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          Date of Hearing:   May 6, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

             AB 1552 (Utilities and Commerce) - As Introduced:  March 10,  
                                        2009 

          Policy Committee:                               
          UtilitiesVote:14-0 (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill extends from January 1, 2010 until January 1, 2012,  
          the authorization for a nonprofit charitable organization to  
          acquire electric commodity service through a direct transaction  
          with an electric service provider if electric commodity service  
          is donated free of charge without compensation, and makes  
          several technical changes provisions government public  
          utilities.

           FISCAL EFFECT  


          Minor absorbable costs for the Public Utilities Commission to  
          continue tracking the donation of any electricity generation  
          costs and to monitor the assessment of other service-related  
          charges.


           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  .  SB 423 (Simitian)/Chapter 749 of 2006 authorized  
          501(c)(3) charitable organizations to receive donated electric  
          commodity service through a direct transaction, but required  
          those organizations to pay all other components of the  
          electricity service, such as those related to transmission and  
          distribution.  This committee bill extends the authorization for  
          this activity for an additional two years and makes other,  
          technical code changes.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 








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