BILL NUMBER: AB 2590	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 15, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 30, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 2775.7 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to distributed generation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2590, as amended, Blumenfield. Distributed generation:
interconnection.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations.
Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all
public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature.
   This bill would require investor-owned electric utilities to post
on their Internet Web sites any report required by a revision to the
commission's Electric Rule 21, if that revision is adopted after
January 1, 2012.  The bill would prohibit a report posted on
Internet Web sites from including information proprietary to a
developer applying for interconnection. 
   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 2775.7 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   2775.7.  (a) An investor-owned electric utility shall post on its
Internet Web site any report required by a revision to the commission'
s Electric Rule 21, if that revision is adopted after January 1,
2012. 
   (b) A report posted on an investor-owned electric utility's
Internet Web site pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not include
information proprietary to a developer applying for interconnection.
 
   (b) 
    (c)  This section  shall not be construed to
  does not  alter the commission's authority
 under  pursuant to  Section 583.