Bill Text: CA AB1350 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Electricity: direct transactions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1350 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1350-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Electricity: direct transactions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1350 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1350-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1350 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Roger Hernández FEBRUARY 22, 2013 An act to amend Section 370 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1350, as introduced, Roger Hernández. Electricity: direct transactions. The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission, pursuant to electrical restructuring, to authorize and facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and retail end-use customers. However, other provisions of the act suspend the right of retail end-use customers, other than community choice aggregators, as defined, to acquire service from certain electricity suppliers, after a period of time to be determined by the PUC, until the Department of Water Resources no longer supplies electricity under that law. The act requires the PUC to require a consumer, as a prerequisite for the consumer to engage in direct transactions, to have the obligation to pay specified uneconomic costs of an electrical corporation subject to specified conditions. The act provides that to the extent the consumer does not use the electrical corporation's facilities for direct transactions, the obligation to pay is required to be confirmed in writing. A violation of the act is a crime. This bill would require, until January 1, 2016, the electricity marketer engaged in the direct transaction with the consumer to inform the consumer that the consumer's obligation to pay those costs is to be confirmed in writing. Because a violation of this requirement is a crime, this 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. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 370 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: 370. The commission shall require, as a prerequisite foranya consumer in California to engage in direct transactions permitted in Section 365, that beginning with the commencement of these direct transactions, the consumer shall have an obligation to pay the costs provided in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, and subject to the conditions in Sections 371 to 374, inclusive, directly to the electrical corporation providing electricity service in the area in which the consumer is located. This obligation shall be set forth in the applicable rate schedule, contract, or tariff option under which the customer is receiving service from the electrical corporation. To the extent the consumer does not use the electrical corporation's facilities for direct transaction, the obligation to pay shall be confirmed in writing, and the customer shall be advised by any electricity marketer engaged in the transaction of the requirement that the customer execute a confirmation. The requirement for marketers to inform customers of the written requirement shall cease on January 1,20022016 . 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.