BILL NUMBER: AB 2409	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Allen

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act relating to energy efficiency.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2409, as introduced, Allen. Energy efficiency.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities. Existing law requires the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt
energy conservation standards to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic,
inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to create a task force to study the feasibility of
creating a Sustainable Energy Utility for the purposes of expanding
renewable energy development and improving energy efficiency programs
and its further intent to enact legislation to require the task
force to report its findings to the Legislature on or before January
1, 2014.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to create a task force to study the feasibility of
creating a Sustainable Energy Utility for the purposes of expanding
renewable energy development and improving energy efficiency
programs.
   It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
to require the task force to report its findings to the Legislature
on or before January 1, 2014.