Bill Text: CA AB1919 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Retirement: pension fund management.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-19 - Read second time. To third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). [AB1919 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1919-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1919	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2010

   An act relating to utility service.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1919, as introduced, Davis. Terminations of utility service.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, and
water corporations, as respectively defined. Existing law authorizes
the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject
to control by the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the
commission, after a hearing, to require every public utility to
construct, maintain, and operate utility facilities in a manner so as
to promote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees,
customers, and the public. Existing law requires certain notice be
given before an electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation may
terminate residential service for nonpayment of a delinquent account
and prohibits termination of service for nonpayment in certain
circumstances.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require every public utility to notify the commission
when any shutoff or utility-instituted termination of utility service
results in death or serious injury, to reform the procedures
utilized by the commission for terminations of utility service, to
require the commission to investigate any shutoff or
utility-instituted termination of utility service that results in
death or serious injury, and to authorize the Attorney General to
bring a civil action against a public utility where a shutoff or
utility-instituted termination of utility service results in death or
serious injury.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require every public utility to notify the Public
Utilities Commission when any shutoff or utility-instituted
termination of utility service results in death or serious injury and
to reform the procedures utilized by the commission for terminations
of utility service.
   (b) It is the further intent of the Legislature to require the
commission to investigate any shutoff or utility-instituted
termination of utility service that results in death or serious
injury.
   (c) It is the additional intent of the Legislature to authorize
the Attorney General to bring a civil action against a public utility
where a shutoff or utility-instituted termination of utility service
results in death or serious injury.