BILL NUMBER: AB 1990	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fong

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 451 of the Public Utilities Code, relating
to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1990, as introduced, Fong. Public utilities: rates and charges:
service.
   Existing law requires that all public utility charges be just and
reasonable and that every public utility furnish and maintain
adequate, efficient, just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities,
equipment, and facilities as necessary to promote the safety,
health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons, employees, and the
public. Existing law further requires that all rules made by a public
utility affecting or pertaining to its charges or service to the
public to be just and reasonable.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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.  Section 451 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   451.   (a)    All charges demanded or received
by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for
any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or any service
rendered or to be rendered shall be just and reasonable. Every unjust
or unreasonable charge demanded or received for  such
  that  product or commodity or service is
unlawful. 
    Every 
    (b)     Every  public utility shall
furnish and maintain  such  adequate, efficient,
just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities, equipment, and
facilities, including telephone facilities, as defined in Section
54.1 of the Civil Code, as  are necesary  
necessary  to promote the safety, health, comfort, and
convenience of its patrons, employees, and the public. 
    All 
    (c)     All  rules made by  a
 public utility affecting or pertaining to its charges or
service to the public shall be just and reasonable.