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CONSENT
Bill No: SB 674
Author: Padilla (D)
Amended: 5/5/11
Vote: 21
SENATE ENERGY, UTIL. & COMM. COMMITTEE : 11-0, 4/5/11
AYES: Padilla, Fuller, Berryhill, Corbett, De Le�n,
DeSaulnier, Pavley, Rubio, Simitian, Strickland, Wright
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE : 5-0, 4/26/11
AYES: Evans, Harman, Blakeslee, Corbett, Leno
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SUBJECT : Telecommunications: master-metering: data
security
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill repeals the California High Speed
Internet Access Act of 1999, clarifies that contracts
between utilities and third parties to facilitate a
customers access to consumption data require a customer's
prior consent for the third party use and release of a
customer's data for a secondary commercial purpose, and
excludes from the definition of rebate an incentive
received from the California Solar Initiative for a solar
thermal or photovoltaic system that service only the common
area of a mobilehome park.
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ANALYSIS :
Existing law
1. The California High Speed Internet Access Act of 1999,
among other
things, requires the Public Utilities Commission to
monitor and
participate in a specified proceeding of the Federal
Communications
Commission addressing whether to require incumbent
local exchange
carriers, as defined, to permit interconnection by
competitive data local
exchange carriers, as defined, at any technically
feasible point, to permit
those competitive local exchange carriers to provide
high bandwidth data
services over telephone lines with voice services
provided by incumbent
local exchange carriers.
2. Requires an investor-owned utility (IOU) or publicly
owned utility
(POU) using advanced metering (smart meters) to
protect consumers
energy usage data from unauthorized access or
disclosure.
3. Requires a mobilehome park owner which provides master
meter service
to its tenants to pass on to each customer the
proportional share of any
rebate that the mobilehome park owner receives from an
IOU.
4. Requires the California Public Utilities Commission
(CPUC) to monitor
and participate in a 1999 proceeding of the Federal
Communications
Commission.
This bill
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1. This bill repeals the California High Speed Internet
Access Act of 1999
2. Clarifies that contracts between utilities and third
parties to facilitate a
customer's access to consumption data require a
customer's prior consent
for the third party use and release of a customer's
data for a secondary
commercial purpose.
2. Excludes from the definition of rebate an incentive
received from the
California Solar Initiative (CSI) for a solar thermal
or photovoltaic
system that service only the common area of a
mobilehome park.
3. Repeals this obsolete provision.
Comments
According to the author's office, this is a code
maintenance bill in which the author has repealed an
obsolete section of the Public Utilities Code and made
technical, non-controversial changes to two other sections.
1. This bill makes technical changes to SB 1476 (Padilla,
2010) which were
intended in that bill but the author was precluded
from making due to
legislative deadlines. The language clarifies the
requirement in SB 1476
that parties to contracts between utilities and third
parties will follow the
principles behind the bill and include in the terms of
contracts between
them that a customer's prior consent will always be
required for the use
and release of a customer's data for a secondary
commercial purpose.
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2. Under current law a mobilehome park operator which in
essence acts in
the place of a utility for its park tenants is
referred to as a master meter
and must extend any funds received in the form of
rebates to all of its
submetered customers (tenants). This bill would, only
for incentive
payments under the CSI, permit the master meter to
receive and retain the
incentive payments if the installed solar only serves
the common area of
the mobilehome park.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
RM:rm 5/16/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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