BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 1467
Author: Padilla (D)
Amended: 4/6/10
Vote: 21
SENATE ENERGY, U.&C. COMMITTEE : 10-0, 4/20/10
AYES: Padilla, Dutton, Corbett, Florez, Kehoe, Lowenthal,
Oropeza, Simitian, Strickland, Wright
NO VOTE RECORDED: Cox
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SUBJECT : Public Utilities Commission: reporting:
wharfingers
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes a number of changes to the
Public Utilities Code by requiring the California Public
Utilities Commission to report on the activities of the
commissioner before the appropriate policy committee of the
Legislature and repeals obsolete provisions of law.
ANALYSIS : Existing 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.
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This bill recasts that provision and also requires the CPUC
President to report on the activities of the CPUC.
Existing 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.
Existing law permits a wharfinger to condemn property
necessary for the construction and maintenance of port
facilities.
This bill repeals this obsolete provision.
Existing law requires the CPUC to monitor and participate
in a 1999 proceeding of the Federal Communications
Commission.
This bill repeals this obsolete provision.
Existing 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
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 updte the policy committees
on all CPUC activities. This is a code maintenance bill in
which the author's office intends to revise, renumber and
repeal sections fo the Public Utilities Code which no
longer have any purposes.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
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Local: No
DLW:do 5/4/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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