BILL NUMBER: AB 1918	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2010

   An act relating to telecommunications.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1918, as introduced, Davis.  Public utilities: procurement:
minority-, women-, disabled veteran-owned business enterprises.
   Existing law directs the Public Utilities Commission to require
every electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporation with gross
annual revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated
subsidiaries and affiliates, to implement a program developed by the
commission to inform, recruit, and utilize minority-, women-, and
disabled veteran-owned business enterprises, as defined, in the
procurement of contracts from those corporations or from their
regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, and to require the reporting
of certain information. The commission, by rulemaking, has adopted
General Order 156, applicable to certain electrical, gas, and
telephone corporations, to effectuate these requirements.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to amend specified statutory provisions relating to that
program to require cable television and wireless telecommunications
service providers to comply with that general order.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to amend Sections 8281, 8283, 8284, and 8285 of the
Public Utilities Code, relating to a program for increasing utility
procurement from minority-, women-, and disabled veteran-owned
business enterprises, to require cable television and wireless
telecommunications service providers to comply with General Order 156
of the Public Utilities Commission.