SB 456,
as amended, Padilla. begin deleteHealth care coverage. end deletebegin insertDisclosure of sources of electrical generation.end insert
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing board. Existing law establishes a program under which retail suppliers of electricity, including electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, disclose accurate, reliable, and simple to understand information on the sources of energy that are used to provide electric services.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would require that the information disclosed include the total electricity purchases derived from generation sources within the state and total electricity purchases derived from generation sources that are located outside the state as well as the percentage of annual sales of electricity that was dispatched from an energy storage system, as defined.
end insertExisting law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of its provisions a crime. Existing law provides for the establishment and operation of a principal office and branch offices of the Director of the Department of Managed Health Care.
end deleteThis bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
end deleteVote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
begin insertSection 398.4 of the end insertbegin insertPublic Utilities Codeend insertbegin insert is
2amended to read:end insert
(a) Every retail supplier that makes an offering to sell
4electricity that is consumed in California shall disclose its
5electricity sources for the previous calendar year.
6(b) The disclosures required by this section shall be made to
7potential end-use consumers in all product-specific written
8promotional materials that are distributed to consumers by either
9printed or electronic means, including the retail supplier’s Internet
10Web site, if one exists, except that advertisements and notices in
11general circulation media shall not be subject to this requirement.
12(c) The disclosures required by this section shall be made
13annually to end-use consumers of the offered electricity. The annual
14disclosure
shall be made by the end of the first complete billing
15cycle for the third quarter of the year, and shall be consistent with
16information provided to the Energy Commission pursuant to
17Section 398.5.
18(d) The disclosures required by this section shall be made
19separately for each offering made by the retail supplier.
20(e) On or before January 1, 1998, the Energy Commission shall
21specify guidelines for the format and means for disclosure required
22by Section 398.3 and this section, based on the requirements of
23this article and subject to public hearing.
24(f) The costs of making the disclosures required by this section
25shall be considered to be generation related.
26(g) The disclosures required by this section shall comply with
27the following:
28(1) A retail supplier’s disclosure of its electricity sources shall
29be expressed as a percentage of annual sales derived from each of
30the following categories:
31(A) Unspecified sources of electricity.
P3 1(B) Specific purchases.
2(2) A retail supplier’s disclosure of its electricity sources shall
3also separately identify total California system electricity, which
4is the sum of all in-state generation and net electricity imports by
5fuel type.
6(3) A retail supplier’s disclosure of its electricity sources shall
7identify the total electricity purchases derived from generation
8sources within the state and total
electricity purchases from
9generation sources that are located outside the state.
10(h) Each of the categories specified in subdivision (g) shall be
11additionally identified as a percentage of annual sales that is
12derived from the following fuels or sources of energy:
13(1) Coal.
14(2) Large hydroelectric (greater than 30 megawatts).
15(3) Natural gas.
16(4) Nuclear.
17(5) Eligible renewable energy resources pursuant to the
18California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (Article 16
19(commencing with Section 399.11)), including any of the
20following:
21(A) Biomass and biowaste.
22(B) Geothermal.
23(C) Eligible hydroelectric.
24(D) Solar.
25(E) Wind.
begin insert
26(6) Electricity dispatched from an energy storage system, as
27defined in Section 2835.
28(6)
end delete29begin insert(7)end insert Other categories as determined by the Energy Commission.
30(i) All electricity sources disclosed as specific purchases shall
31meet the requirements of subdivision (c) of Section 398.2.
32(j) Specific purchases identified pursuant to this section shall
33be from sources connected to the Western Electricity Coordinating
34Council interconnected grid.
35(k) Compliance with this section by a local publicly owned
36electric utility shall constitute compliance withbegin delete paragraph (2) of begin insert subdivision (l) of Section 399.30end insert.
37subdivision (b) of Section 387end delete
38(l) begin deleteThe provisions of this end deletebegin insertThis
end insertsection shall not apply to
39generators providing electric service onsite, under an over-the-fence
P4 1transaction as described in Section 218, or to an affiliate or
2affiliates, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 372.
Section 1341.1 of the Health and Safety Code is
4amended to read:
The director shall have his or her principal office in
6the City of Sacramento, and may establish branch offices in the
7City and County of San Francisco, in the City of Los Angeles, and
8in the City of San Diego. The director shall from time to time
9obtain the necessary furniture, stationery, fuel, light, and any other
10proper convenience for the transaction of the business of the
11Department of Managed Health Care.
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