SB 711,
as amended, Padilla. begin deletePublic health: communicable diseases: rabies. end deletebegin insertPublic Utilities Commission: fees.end insert
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law allows the commission to charge and collect a fee of $75 for filing each application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, or for the mortgage, lease, transfer, or assignment of a certificate.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would instead require the fee to not exceed the reasonable costs to the commission for filing these applications. The bill would authorize the fee in an amount not to exceed $500 and would authorize the commission to adjust this fee based on the Consumer Price Index.
end insertbegin insertExisting law establishes the Public Utilities Commission Utilities Reimbursement Account and generally provides that all fees and charges collected under the Public Utilities Code from each public utility, except penalties, be paid into the fund. Other existing law provides that specified fees, including, but not limited to, the fee for filing each application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, or for the mortgage, lease, transfer, or assignment of a certificate, are required to be paid at least once each month into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would repeal the provision that requires certain fees to be paid at least once each month into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
end insertExisting law requires that whenever any case of rabies is reported, the State Department of Public Health must make, or cause to be made, a preliminary investigation as to whether the disease exists, and as to the probable area of the state in which the population or animals are endangered.
end deleteThis bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change 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 1904 of the end insertbegin insertPublic Utilities Codeend insertbegin insert is
2amended to read:end insert
The commission shall also charge and collect the
4following fees:
5(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 1036 for filing each
6application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity,
7or for the mortgage, lease, transfer, or assignment thereof,
8begin delete seventy-five dollars ($75)end deletebegin insert an amount not to exceed five hundred
9dollars ($500). The commission may adjust this fee based on the
10Consumer Price Index. The fee charged and collected pursuant to
11this subdivision shall not exceed the reasonable costs to the
12commission for filing the applicationend insert.
13(b) For a certificate authorizing an issue of bonds, notes, or
14other evidences of indebtedness, two dollars ($2) for each one
15thousand dollars ($1,000) of the face value of the authorized issue
16or fraction thereof up to one million dollars ($1,000,000), one
17dollar ($1) for each one thousand dollars ($1,000) over one million
18dollars ($1,000,000) and up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000),
19and fifty cents ($0.50) for each one thousand dollars ($1,000) over
20ten million dollars ($10,000,000), with a minimum fee in any case
21of fifty dollars ($50). No fee need be paid on such portion of any
22such issue as may be used to guarantee, take over, refund,
23discharge, or retire any stock, bond, note or other evidence of
24indebtedness on which a fee has theretofore been paid to the
25commission. If the commission modified the amount of the issue
P3 1requested in any case and the applicant thereupon elects not to
2avail itself of the commission’s authorization, no fee
shall be paid,
3and if such fee is paid prior to the issuance of such certificate by
4the commission, such fee shall be returned.
begin insertSection 1906 of the end insertbegin insertPublic Utilities Codeend insertbegin insert is repealed.end insert
All fees collected under this chapter shall be paid, except
7as provided in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 5001) of
8Division 2, at least once each month into the State Treasury to the
9credit of the General Fund.
Section 121595 of the Health and Safety Code
11 is amended to read:
Whenever a case of rabies is reported as existing in
13any county or city, the department shall make, or cause to be made,
14a preliminary investigation as to whether the disease exists, and
15as to the probable area of the state in which the population or
16animals are endangered.
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