Bill Text: CA AB3076 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public utilities: County of Riverside: Riverside Transmission Reliability Project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-01 - Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. [AB3076 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3076-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 21, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Essayli (Coauthor: Senator Seyarto) |
February 16, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law prohibits new residential-type gas appliances that are equipped with a pilot light from being sold in the state 24 months after an intermittent ignition device has been demonstrated and certified by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
This bill would prohibit state agencies and local governments from adopting or enforcing a rule, regulation, resolution, or ordinance that directly or indirectly results in prohibiting the use of gas stoves in residential or nonresidential buildings.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 327.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:327.5.
(a) The commission, as part of its proceeding pursuant to Application 15-04-013 (April 15, 2015), “In the Matter of the Application of Southern California Edison Company (U338E) for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the Riverside Transmission Reliability Project,” shall suspend the implementation of commission Decision 20-03-001 (March 12, 2020), DECISION GRANTING A CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY FOR THE RIVERSIDE TRANSMISSION RELIABILITY PROJECT, until a supplemental environmental impact report has been prepared and submitted for the commission’s consideration to address updated information on the wildfire risk associated with the construction and operation of the Riverside Transmission Reliability Project (RTRP), including both of the following:(a)A state agency or local government, including a charter city, shall not adopt or enforce a rule, regulation, resolution, or ordinance, including, but not limited to, an ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups for buildings, that directly or indirectly results in prohibiting the use of gas stoves in residential or nonresidential buildings.
(b) The Legislature finds and declares that this section addresses a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair as that term is used in Section 5 of Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore, this section applies to all cities, including charter cities.