Bill Text: CA AB1274 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 597, Statutes of 2013. [AB1274 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1274-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1274	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Sections 8382 and 8383 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1274, as introduced, Bradford. Public utilities: consumer
privacy.
   Existing law prohibits, except as specified, an electric
corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility,
from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a third
party a consumer's electric or gas usage that is made available as a
part of an advanced metering infrastructure, including the name,
account number, and residence of the customer (data). Existing law
requires the electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a locally
publicly owned utility, to use reasonable security procedures and
practices to provide a consumer's unencrypted data from unauthorized
access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
   This bill would require the commission, by order or rule, to
require an electrical corporation or gas corporation to establish, on
or before December 31, 2014, communication standards and protocols
for a home area network device that communicates electrical or gas
consumption data, as defined, of that device to the electric
corporation or gas corporation through an advanced metering
infrastructure to ensure against the unauthorized access,
destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of the data
(cyber-security) and compatibility of the home area network devices.
The bill would require a local publicly owned utility, on or before
December 31, 2014, to establish communication standards and protocols
for a home area network device that communicates electrical
consumption data of that device to the utility to ensure
cyber-security. The bill would require the electric corporation or
gas corporation and a local publicly owned utility to provide to the
consumer educational materials regarding cyber-security after the
development of the communication standards and protocols.
   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 8382 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   8382.  (a) The commission shall, by order or rule, require an
electric corporation or gas corporation to establish, on or before
December 31, 2014, communication standards and protocols for a home
area network device that communicates electrical or gas consumption
data of that device to the electric corporation or gas corporation
through an advanced metering infrastructure to ensure against the
unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of
the data and compatibility of the home area network devices.
   (b) An electric corporation or gas corporation shall ensure the
consumer's electrical or gas consumption data are not compromised by
a third-party consultant of the corporation.
   (c) After the development of the communication standards and
protocols, the electric corporation or gas corporation shall provide
to consumers educational materials regarding measures to ensure
against the unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or
disclosure of the electrical or gas consumption data.
   (d) As used in this section, "electrical or gas consumption data"
means a consumer's electrical or gas usage, and includes the name,
account number, or residence of the consumer.
  SEC. 2.  Section 8383 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   8383.  (a) On or before December 31, 2014, a local publicly owned
electric utility shall establish communication standards and
protocols for a home area network device that communicates electrical
consumption data of that device to the utility through an advanced
metering infrastructure to ensure against the unauthorized access,
destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of the data and
compatibility of the home area network devices.
   (b) A local publicly owned electric utility shall ensure that the
consumer's electrical consumption data are not compromised by a
third-party consultant of the utility.
   (c) After the development of the communication standards and
protocols, the local publicly owned electric utility shall provide to
consumers educational materials regarding measures to ensure against
the unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or
disclosure of the electrical or gas consumption data.
   (d) As used in this section, "electrical consumption data" means a
consumer's electrical usage, and includes the name, account number,
or residence of the consumer.