Bill Text: CA SB343 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Energy: efficiency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-07-12 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. [SB343 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB343-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 343	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 12, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 22, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 10, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator De León

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to add Section 381.3 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to energy  , and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 343, as amended, De León. Energy: efficiency.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has
regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical
corporations and gas corporations, as defined. Existing law requires
the PUC to investigate the ability of electrical corporation and gas
corporations to provide energy efficiency financing options to their
customers to implement a comprehensive program developed by the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy
Commission) and requires the PUC to include an assessment of each
electrical corporation's and each gas corporation's implementation of
that program in a specified triennial report required under existing
law. Pursuant to this requirement, the PUC has opened Rulemaking
09-11-014.
   This bill would require the PUC, in Rulemaking 09-11-014, in
consultation with the Energy Commission, the Treasurer, and the
California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing
Authority, to determine appropriate energy efficiency financing
measures, programs, and funding sources for the residential,
commercial, and public building sectors in order to achieve the
statewide energy efficiency goals for those sectors identified in the
California Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan adopted by the PUC. 

   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 381.3 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   381.3.  In pending Rulemaking 09-11-014, the commission, in
consultation with the Energy Commission, the Treasurer, and the
California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing
Authority, shall determine appropriate energy efficiency financing
measures, programs, and funding sources for the residential,
commercial, and public building sectors in order to achieve the
statewide energy efficiency goals for those sectors identified in the
California Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan, as updated by the
commission in January 2011.
   SEC. 2.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to prevent interruption of the funding and administration
of programs funded through the public goods charge, to reform
administration of those programs to better serve the needs of
ratepayers and the persons participating in those programs, and
because the bill requires the Public Utilities Commission to
undertake certain steps in an open, ongoing proceeding of the
commission in which numerous groups representing different interests
are participating parties, it is necessary for this act to take
effect immediately.