BILL NUMBER: SB 1435	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section  25505   25217.5
 of  , and to repeal the heading of Chapter 6.5 (commencing
with Section 25550) of Division 15 of, the Public Resources
Code, relating to energy.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1435, as amended, Padilla.  Energy: power facilities:
site certification: notice.   State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission: chair: duties.  
   Existing law requires the Chair of the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission to direct the adviser, the
executive director, and other staff in the performance of their
duties in conformance with the policies and guidelines established by
the commission.  
   This bill would require the chair of the commission to also appear
annually before the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and
Communications and the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce
to report on the activities of the commission.  
   Existing law grants to the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission with the exclusive power to certify certain
sites and related facilities. Existing law requires a person
proposing to construct a thermal powerplant or electric transmission
line on a site to submit to the commission a notice of intention to
file an application for the certification of the site and related
facilities. Upon receipt of the notice, existing law requires the
commission to cause a summary of the notice to be published in a
newspaper of general circulation, where specified, and to transmit a
copy of the notice to, among other entities, the Public Utilities
Commission and the Attorney General.  
   This bill would also require the commission to transmit a copy of
the notice to the Independent System Operator. 
   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 25217.5 of the  
Public Resources Code   is amended to read: 
   25217.5.  The  chairman   chair  of the
commission shall  direct   do both of the
following: 
    (a)     Direct  the adviser, the
executive director, and other staff in the performance of their
duties in conformance with the policies and guidelines established by
the commission. 
   (b) Annually appear before the Senate Committee on Energy,
Utilities and Communications and the Assembly Committee on Utilities
and Commerce to report on the activities of the commission. 
   SEC. 2.    The heading of Chapter 6.5 (commencing
with Section 25550) of Division 15 of the   Public Resources
Code   is repealed.  
      CHAPTER 6.5.  EXPEDITED SITING OF ELECTRICAL GENERATION

 
  SECTION 1.    Section 25505 of the Public
Resources Code is amended to read:
   25505.  Upon receipt of a notice, the commission shall cause a
summary of the notice to be published in a newspaper of general
circulation in each county in which the sites and related facilities,
or any part thereof, designated in the notice are proposed to be
located. The commission shall also transmit a copy of the notice to
the Public Utilities Commission, for sites and related facilities
requiring a certificate of public convenience and necessity, and to
other federal, state, regional, and local agencies having an interest
in matters pertinent to the proposed facilities at any of the
alternative sites. A copy of the notice shall also be transmitted to
the Attorney General and to the Independent System Operator.

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