BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: June 28, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON UTILITIES AND COMMERCE
Steven Bradford, Chair
SB 1467 (Padilla) - As Amended: June 10, 2010
SENATE VOTE : (Vote not relevant)
SUBJECT : California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and
California Energy Commission (CEC) reporting requirements.
SUMMARY : This bill repeals and amends several sections of the
Public Utilities Code and the Public Resources Code which are of
no utility, and makes other technical and non-substantive
changes. Specifically, this bill :
1)Corrects certain existing references in the Public Utilities
Code by revising "electric corporation" to "electrical
corporation".
2)Requires the chair of the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission to appear annually before the
appropriate policy committees of the Senate and Assembly to
report on the activities of the commission.
3)Repeals the California High Speed Internet Access Act of 1999.
4)Repeals certain reporting requirements of the Secretary of the
California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within the
Public Utility Act.
5)Recasts and revises the provision for the PUC to annually
appear before the appropriate policy committees of the Senate
and Assembly to report on the PUC annual work plan and
activities.
6)Revises provisions in statute to refer to local exchange
carrier, instead of local exchange service providers and local
exchange telephone corporation.
7)Repeals the provision that requires the PUC to evaluate and
implement policies to promote the use of electric power and
natural gas to fuel low-emission fuel vehicles and report to
the Legislature. This provision was made obsolete by SB 626
(Kehoe, Chapter 355, Statutes 2009).
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8)Repeals the obsolete provision of a wharfinger to condemn
property necessary for the construction and maintenance of
port facilities.
9)Modifies how a household goods carrier can enforce its lien by
substituting procedures set forth in the Uniform Commercial
Code applicable to the enforcement of a warehouse's lien for
existing procedures that are applicable to secured
transactions.
EXISTING LAW
1)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.
2)Requires the President of the PUC to annually appear before
the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to report
on the PUC's annual work plan and on the number of cases where
resolution exceeded prescribed time periods.
3)Permits a wharfinger to condemn property necessary for the
construction and maintenance of port facilities.
4)Requires the PUC to monitor and participate in a 1999
proceeding of the Federal Communications Commission.
5)Requires the PUC to evaluate and implement policies to promote
the development of equipment and infrastructure needed to
facilitate the use of electric power and natural gas to fuel
low-emission vehicles and report to the Legislature every two
years.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown.
COMMENTS : This is a code maintenance bill in which the authors
intend to revise, renumber and repeal sections of the Public
Utilities Code and Public Resources Code.
The most substantive provision of the bill is Section 38 which
revises the carriers' lien provisions in Public Utilities Code
Section 5142. The author and committee may wish to strike this
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provision from the bill .
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file.
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : DaVina Flemings / U. & C. / (916)
319-2083