Bill Text: CA AB2221 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Broadband projects: electric power design approval.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2221 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2221-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 21, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Juan Carrillo |
February 07, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund program to encourage the deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies, as specified. Existing law requires the commission, on or before April 1, 2023, and biennially thereafter, to conduct a fiscal and performance audit of the implementation and effectiveness of the program to ensure that funds have been expended in accordance with the approved terms of the grant awards and loan agreements and to report its findings to the Legislature.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that reporting requirement.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 8395) is added to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:CHAPTER 8. Broadband Projects
8395.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:8396.
(a) An electric utility shall adopt, publish, and make easily accessible to the public, including an applicant, all rules, requirements, and standards applicable to applications submitted to the electric utility. An application shall not be subject to any rule, requirement, or standard that has not been published and made easily accessible to the public 12 months before the date of the application’s submittal to an electric utility for review.SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.On or before April 1, 2023, and biennially thereafter, the commission shall conduct a fiscal and performance audit of the implementation and effectiveness of the California Advanced Services Fund to ensure that funds have been expended in accordance with the approved terms of the grant awards and loan agreements pursuant to Section 281 or 281.2 and shall report its findings to the Legislature. The reports shall include an update to the maps in the final report of the California Broadband Task Force and data on the types and numbers of jobs created as a result of the program administered by the commission pursuant to Section 281 or 281.2 and shall include the information specified in Section 914.7.