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                SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
                                 ALEX PADILLA, CHAIR
          

          AB 1552 -  Assm U&C                     Hearing Date:  June 29,  
          2010                  A
          As Introduced                           FISCAL           B

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                                      DESCRIPTION
           
           Current law  authorizes nonprofit charitable organizations to  
          receive donated electric commodity service through a direct  
          transmission with an electric service provider if electric  
          commodity service is donated free of charge without  
          compensation.

           This bill  extends the sunset on that authorization until January  
          1, 2012.

           Current law  defines "retail seller" as an entity engaged in the  
          retail sale of electricity to end-use customers located within  
          the state including electrical corporations, community choice  
          aggregators and electric service providers.

           This bill  replaces the term "retail supplier" with "retail  
          seller," replaces the term "eligible renewals" with "eligible  
          renewable energy resources," and incorporates definitions for  
          those terms that are applicable to the California Renewables  
          Portfolio Standard Program.

           This bill  replaces the term "California Energy Resources  
          Conservation and Development Commission" with "Energy  
          Commission.


                                      BACKGROUND
           
          This bill is a committee cleanup bill.













                                       COMMENTS
           
              1)   Nonprofit Charitable Organization  .  The section of this  
               bill that extends the sunset date of current law  
               authorizing a nonprofit charitable organization to acquire  
               electric commodity service has been superseded by SB 176  
               (Ch. 36, Stats. 2009), which extended the sunset date from  
               January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2015.  Accordingly, the  
               author may wish to consider deleting this provision. 

              2)   Technical Changes  .  All the other provisions of this  
               bill are intended to make minor technical changes to  
               definitions in order to clarify code pertaining to  
               utilities and renewable energy.  All of the provisions are  
               nonsubstantive and without opposition.  In addition, the  
               relevant regulatory agencies have been consulted and have  
               expressed no concerns.  As the code cleanup bill, the bill  
               does not and will not contain any section to which any  
               party objects.


                                    ASSEMBLY VOTES
           
          Assembly Floor                     73-0
          Assembly Appropriations Committee  16-0
          Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee                       
          14-0


                                       POSITIONS
           
           Sponsor:
           
          Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce

           Support:
           
          None on file.

           Oppose:
           
          None on file.












          Jackie Kinney 
          AB 1552 Analysis
          Hearing Date:  June 29, 2010