2011-12 Legislative Session
CPUC Expert Analyses and Positions on Legislation
AB
37 (Huffman) – Smart Grid Deployment: Smart Meters.
AB
45 (Hill) – Charter Party Carriers: Alcoholic Beverages: Open
Containers.
AB
478 (Hill) – Gas Corporations: fines and penalties.
AB
509 (Skinner) – Federal earned income tax credit: notification: state
departments and agencies.
AB
512 (Gordon) – Local government renewable energy self-generation program.
AB
578 (Hill) – CPUC: Natural Gas Pipeline
AB
631 (Ma) – Public utilities: Electric Vehicle Charging Station.
AB
723 (Bradford) – Energy: Public Goods Charge.
AB
724 (Bradford) – Electric and Gas Utility Service: Master-meter
customers.
AB
838 (Hill) – Charter-Party Carriers of Passengers: Reports.
- CPUC Position: Support with Technical Amendments
- Legislative Memo: August 2, 2012
AB
841 (Buchanan) – Telecommunications: universal service: Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP).
AB
861 (Hill) – Public Utilities Act: remedies for violation: gas and
electrical corporation executive officer compensation incentives.
AB
864 (Huffman) – Self Generation Incentive Program.
AB
976 (Hall) – Public contracts: consulting services: community choice
aggregation.
AB
982 (Skinner) – Energy: land
exchange for renewable energy-related projects.
AB
1050 (Ma) – Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services: taxes and
fees.
AB
1050 (Ma) – Telecommunications: taxes and fees.
AB
1073 (Fuentes)- Energy efficiency.
AB
1124 (Skinner) – Low-income energy efficiency.
AB
1150 (V. Manuel Perez) – Self-Generation Incentive Program.
AB
1160 (Hill) – Public Utility Employees: Whistleblowers.
AB 1186
(Skinner) – California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Investor-Owned
Utilities: School Energy Efficiency.
AB
1197 (Hill) – Public Utility Employees: Whistleblowers (pending
amendments).
AB
1214 (Skinner) – Transmission.
AB
1302 (Williams) – Distributed Generation.
AB
1390 (Assembly Utilities & Committee) – Energy Crisis Litigation.
AB
1456 (Hill) – Gas corporations: rate of return: safety performance standards.
AB
1514 (Lowenthal) – Public works: excavations: violations.
AB
1524 (Allen) – Commercial air carriers: hot air balloons.
AB
1541 (Dickinson) – Public Utilities Commission: public records.
- CPUC Position: Oppose unless
amended
- Legislative Memo: July 12, 2012
AB
1650 (Portantino) – Public Utilities: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness.
AB
1665 (Galgiani) – California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: railroad
crossings.
AB
1694 (Fuentes) – Gas pipeline safety inspections.
AB
1703 (Hill) – Public Utilities: reporting: safety issues.
AB
1830 (Perez, V. Manuel) – Water Service: mobilehome parks.
AB
1843 (Hill) – Whistleblower Protection.
AB
1990 (Fong) – Renewable energy resources: small-scale renewable generation
program.
AB
2118 (Butler) – Household Goods Carriers.
AB
2165 (Hill) – Net energy metering: eligible fuel cell customer-generators.
AB
2187 (Bradford) – Renewable energy resources.
AB 2196
(Chesbro) – Renewable energy resources.
AB
2235 (Hagman) – Chino Hills Compensation.
AB
2341 (Williams) – Distribution Grid: distributed generation.
AB
2390 (Chesbro) – Electricity: Biomass: Incentive Programs.
AB
2514 (Bradford) – Net energy metering.
AB
2559 (Buchanan) – Natural Gas Pipelines: pipeline integrity management.
AB
2564 (Ma) – Environmental quality: pipelines: project applicants.
AB
2584 (Bradford) – Electrical Corporations and Gas Corporations: unplanned
service outages: retention of evidence.
AB
2590 (Blumenfield) – Distribution Grid: interconnection.
HR
7 (Mica) – American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012 (Provision
Relevant to Positive Train Control).
SBx1
2 (Simitian) Utilities: renewable energy resources.
SB
3 (Padilla) – Telecommunications: universal service.
SB
44 (Corbett) – Public Utilities: Gas Pipeline Emergency Response
SB
216 (Yee) – Public utilities: intrastate natural gas pipeline safety.
SB
343 (de León) – Energy efficiency.
SB
370 (Blakeslee) – Public utilities: net energy metering: agricultural customers.
SB
372 (Blakeslee) – Local government renewable energy self-generation program.
SB
379 (Fuller) – Telecommunications: universal service: regulation.
SB
454 (Pavley) – Energy efficiency standards.
SB
489 (Wolk) – Electricity: net energy metering.
SB
585 (Kehoe) – Energy: Solar Energy Systems: Funding.
SB
594 (Wolk) – Energy: net energy metering.
SB
618 (Wolk) – Local government: solar-use easement.
SB
682 (Calderon) – Energy: Clean distributed generation units.
SB
705 (Leno) – Natural gas: service and safety.
SB
790 (Leno) – Electricity: community choice aggregation.
SB
836 (Padilla) – Renewable Energy Resources: Cost Reporting.
SB
843 (Wolk) – Energy: Electrical Corporations: City of Davis PVUSA Solar
Facility: Community-Based Renewable Energy Self-Generation Program.
SB
879 (Padilla) – Natural gas pipelines: accounts.
SB
939 (Wright) – Natural gas surcharge.
SB
971 (Cannella) – Renewable Energy Resources.
SB
981 (Yee) – Public Utilities Commission: commissioners: executive employees.
SB
998 (De León)- Energy efficiency, renewable energy, and distributed generation
on-bill repayment programs.
SB
1000 (Yee) – Public Utilities Commission: public records.
- CPUC Position: Support
With Amendments (technical)
- Legislative Memo: February 1, 2012
SB
1122 (Rubio) – Energy: Renewable Biomass and Biogas Projects.
- CPUC Position: Oppose
Unless Amended.
- Legislative Memo: August 2, 2012
SB
1130 (de Leon) - Energy: Energy Assessment: Commercial Buildings: Financing.
SB
1160 (Padilla) – Communications: service interruptions.
SB
1161 (Padilla) – Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol and Internet
Protocol enabled communications services (VoIP).
SB
1165 (Wright)- Public Utilities Commission: intervenor compensation.
SB 1207
(Fuller) – Gas Corporations: fines and penalties.
SB
1350 (Leno) – Public Utilities: fines and penalties.
SB
1364 (Huff) – Water Corporations.
SB
1403 (Yee) – California Public Utilities Commission.
SB
1533 (Padilla) – Distribution Grid: interconnection.
SB
1537 (Kehoe) – Energy: rates: net energy metering.
SB
1572 (Pavley) – California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: AB 32 Investment
Fund.
S.
1914 (Snowe) – Cut Energy Bills at Home Act.
S
3923 (Sanders, 111th Congressional District) – Feed-in Tariffs.