Bill Text: CA AB1385 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Electricity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1385 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1385-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1385	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 9601 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to electricity.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1385, as introduced, Bradford. Electricity.
   Existing law relating to electrical restructuring, except as
specified, prohibits a person, corporation, electrical corporation,
or local publicly owned electric utility or other governmental entity
other than a retail customer's existing electric service provider as
of December 20, 1995, from providing partial or full electric
service to a retail customer of a local publicly owned electric
utility unless the customer first confirms in writing an obligation
to pay, through tariff or otherwise, to the utility currently
providing electric service, a nonbypassable generation-related
severance fee or transition charge established by the regulatory body
for that utility. Existing law, except as specified, also prohibits
a local publicly owned electric utility or other governmental entity
from providing partial or full electric service to a retail customer
of an electrical corporation, unless the customer of that electrical
corporation first confirms in writing an obligation to pay, through
tariff or otherwise, to the electrical corporation currently
providing electric service, a nonbypassable generation-related
transition charge established by the regulatory body for that
electrical corporation. Existing law further prohibits a local
publicly owned electric utility or an electrical corporation from
selling electric power to the retail customers of another local
publicly owned electric utility or electrical corporation unless the
first utility has agreed to let the 2nd utility make sales of
electric power to the retail customers of the first utility.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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 9601 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   9601.  (a) Except with respect to supply options of the nature
specified in Section 218, with the exception of paragraph (3) of
subdivision (b) of that section, as it existed on December 20, 1995,
 no   a  person, corporation, electrical
corporation, or local publicly owned electric utility or other
governmental entity other than a retail customer's existing electric
service provider as of December 20, 1995, shall  not 
provide partial or full electric service to a retail customer of a
local publicly owned electric utility  ,  unless the
customer first confirms in writing an obligation to pay, through
tariff or otherwise, to the utility currently providing electric
service, a nonbypassable generation-related severance fee or
transition charge established by the regulatory body for that
utility. The severance fee or transition charge shall be paid
directly to the local publicly owned utility providing electricity
service in the service area in which the consumer is located.
   (b) Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 374, 
no   a  local publicly owned electric utility or
other governmental entity shall  not  provide partial or
full electric service to a retail customer of an electrical
corporation  ,  unless the customer of that electrical
corporation first confirms in writing an obligation to pay, through
tariff or otherwise, to the electrical corporation currently
providing electric service, a nonbypassable generation-related
transition charge established by the regulatory body for that
electrical corporation. The charge shall be paid directly to the
electrical corporation providing electricity in the service area in
which the consumer is located.
   (c)  No   A  local publicly owned
electric utility or electrical corporation shall  not  sell
electric power to the retail customers of another local publicly
owned electric utility or electrical corporation  ,  unless
the first utility has agreed to allow the second utility to make
sales of electric power to the retail customers of the first utility.

   (d) This section does not apply to an exchange of customers
affected by a local publicly owned electric utility completing a
mutually agreeable condemnation process to resolve a fringe area
agreement in which there exists a balance of benefits between the
customers of the local publicly owned electric utility and the
electrical corporation.