BILL NUMBER: AB 724 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 28, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bradford
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
An act to add and repeal Section 2800 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to utility service.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 724, as amended, Bradford. Electric and gas utility service:
master-meter customers.
Existing law authorizes the owner of a master-metered mobilehome
park or manufactured housing community that provides gas or electric
service to residents to transfer ownership and operational
responsibility for its gas or electric system to the gas or
electrical corporation providing service in the area in which the
park or community is located, pursuant to specified transfer and cost
allocation procedures.
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission, by
February 1, 2012, to open an investigation or other appropriate
proceeding to evaluate and report to the Legislature, by July 1,
2013, when an owner of a mobilehome park or manufactured housing
community that provides master-metered gas or electric service to its
residents of the park or community should be required to transfer
responsibility for gas or electric service to the gas or electrical
corporation providing service in the area in which the park or
community is located, in addition to those plants, facilities, and
interests in real property that the commission, in consultation with
the gas or electrical corporation, determines are necessary,
convenient, or cost effective to provide service. The bill
would require the commission to include in the report a
classification of mobilehome parks and manufactured housing
communities based on the degree to which the park or community acts
as the primary or permanent residence of those who use the park or
community. These provisions would be repealed on January 1,
2018.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 2800 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
2800. (a) By February 1, 2012, the commission shall open an
investigation or other appropriate proceeding to evaluate and report
to the Legislature when the owner of a mobilehome park or
manufactured housing community that provides master-metered gas or
electric service to its residents should be required to transfer
responsibility for gas or electric service to the gas or electrical
corporation providing service in the area in which the park or
community is located, in addition to those plants, facilities, and
interests in real property that the commission, in consultation with
the gas or electrical corporation, determines are necessary,
convenient, or cost effective to provide service.
(b) The commission shall include in the report developed pursuant
to subdivision (a) a classification of mobilehome parks and
manufactured housing communities based on the degree to which the
park or community acts as the primary or permanent residence of those
who use the park or community. The commission shall consider whether
transferring responsibility, as described in subdivision (a), should
be limited to mobilehome parks or manufactured housing communities
that are classified as the primary or permanent residence of those
who use the park or community.
(c)
(b) The commission shall report the plan to the
Legislature no later than July 1, 2013. The report shall be submitted
in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(d)
(c) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code,
this section is repealed on January 1, 2018.