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]

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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 for 
any   a  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,  2002
  2016  .
  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.                                        
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