Bill Text: CA SB1301 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Natural gas: hydraulic models and hydraulic feasibility analyses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. [SB1301 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1301-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  April 18, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1301

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Introduced by Senator Stern

February 15, 2024

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An act to add Section 959.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1301, as amended, Stern. Natural gas: interactive hydraulic models and hydraulic feasibility analyses.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations.

This bill would require natural gas utilities corporations to make available to the commission all data required by the commission to develop interactive hydraulic models and hydraulic feasibility analyses.

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 provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing its requirements would be a crime, 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 a specified reason.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 959.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

959.5.

 In order to ensure safety and reliability, and to facilitate long-term planning and cost-effective expenditures of by ratepayers and other investments in measures that reduce natural gas demand, natural gas utilities corporations shall make available to the commission all data required by the commission to develop interactive hydraulic models and hydraulic feasibility analyses.

SEC. 2.

 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only 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.