Bill Text: CA AB3062 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Fire protection districts: electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities: prescribed or controlled burns: notice requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-23 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. [AB3062 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3062-Enrolled.html
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Enrolled
August 19, 2024 |
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Passed
IN
Senate
August 12, 2024 |
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Passed
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Assembly
August 15, 2024 |
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Amended
IN
Senate
July 03, 2024 |
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Amended
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Assembly
April 29, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3062
| Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to add Section 764.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3062, Bauer-Kahan.
Fire protection districts: electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities: prescribed or controlled burns: notice requirements.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires each electrical corporation and local publicly owned electric utility to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan, which includes a description of its procedures for notifying customers who may be impacted by the deenergizing of electrical lines. Existing law requires those procedures to direct notification to all affected public safety offices, critical first responders, health care facilities, and operators of telecommunications infrastructure.
This bill would authorize a fire protection district, as defined, to require an electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility to notify the
district at least 24 hours before performing a prescribed or controlled burn, except as provided.
Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.
Because the above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill’s requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Additionally, to the extent this bill would mandate that a local publicly owned electric utility, which is an entity of local government, provide a new program or higher level of service, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures
for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 764.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:764.5.
(a) A fire protection district may require an electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility to notify the fire protection district at least 24 hours before performing a prescribed or controlled burn.(b) If an electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility cannot provide 24 hours’ notice pursuant to subdivision (a) due to unforeseen circumstances, the electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility shall notify the fire protection district at the earliest possible time.
(c) An electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility shall provide notice to a fire protection district pursuant to this section by both telephone and email.
(d) This section does not limit or otherwise affect the ability of a fire protection district or any other local agency to require
different notice for a prescribed or controlled burn, or impose other requirements allowable by law regarding a prescribed or controlled burn.
