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                SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
                                 ALEX PADILLA, CHAIR
          

          SB 1467 -  Padilla                                Hearing Date:   
          April 20, 2010             S
          As Amended:         April 6, 2010            FISCAL       B

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                                      DESCRIPTION
           
           Current law  requires the President of the California Public  
          Utilities Commission (CPUC) to annually appear before the  
          appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to report on  
          the CPUC's annual work plan and on the number of cases where  
          resolution exceeded prescribed time periods.

           This bill  recasts that provision and also requires the CPUC  
          President to report on the activities of the CPUC.

           Current law  requires the Secretary of the California  
          Environmental Protection Agency to address various issues  
          concerning the cost-shifting between classes of utility  
          ratepayers and to provide reports to the Legislature no later  
          than 1997 and 2001.

           This bill  repeals this obsolete provision.

           Current law  permits a wharfinger to condemn property necessary  
          for the construction and maintenance of port facilities.

           This bill  repeals this obsolete provision.

           Current law  requires the CPUC to monitor and participate in a  
          1999 proceeding of the Federal Communications Commission.

           This bill  repeals this obsolete provision.

           Current law  requires the CPUC to evaluate and implement policies  











          to promote the development of equipment and infrastructure  
          needed to facilitate the use of electric power and nature gas to  
          fuel low-emission vehicles and report to the Legislature every  
          two years.

           This bill  repeals this provision which was made obsolete by SB  
          626 (Kehoe, 2009).



                                      BACKGROUND
           
          This bill repeals several obsolete sections of the Public  
          Utilities Code which are of no utility.  Additionally, the CPUC  
          President is currently required to appear before this committee  
          and the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee but the  
          mandate is buried in code and also lacks the need for the  
          President to update the policy committees on all CPUC  
          activities.  


                                       COMMENTS
           
           Author's Purpose  .  This is a code maintenance bill in which the  
          author intends to revise, renumber and repeal sections of the  
          Public Utilities Code which no longer have utility.


                                       POSITIONS
           
           Sponsor:
           
          Author

           Support:
           
          None on file.

           Oppose:
           
          None on file.













          Kellie Smith 
          SB 1467 Analysis
          Hearing Date:  April 20, 2010