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

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1919	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2010

   An act  relating to utility service   to
amend Section 27585 of the Government Code, relating to local
government  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1919, as amended, Davis.  Terminations of utility
service.   Local government: county surveyor: survey
monument preservation fund.  
   Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of a county to
establish a survey monument preservation fund and to impose a user
fee, not to exceed $10, to be charged and collected by the county
recorder as a condition to the filing or recording of any grant deed
conveying real property except for those grant deeds conveying lots
created by recorded tract maps.  
   This bill would delete this exemption from the user fee. 

   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.    Section 27585 of the  
Government Code   is amended to read: 
   27585.  (a) For the limited purpose of financing the survey
monument preservation fund pursuant to Section 27584, the board may
impose a user fee, not to exceed ten dollars ($10), or an amount set
pursuant to Section 54985, which shall be charged and collected by
the county recorder, over and above any other fees required by law,
as a condition precedent to the filing or recording of any grant deed
conveying real property.  Grant deeds conveying lots created
by recorded tract maps shall be exempt from the user fee. 
Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the fees shall be
forwarded monthly by the county recorder to the county treasurer for
deposit to the county survey monument preservation fund. Following
the establishment of the fund, the board of supervisors may
extinguish the fund if a finding is made by the board that the need
for the fund no longer exists.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) or (c), if a city engineer of
a city with a population of more than 1,500,000 persons conducts the
survey pursuant to Section 27584, any user fees collected pursuant to
subdivision (a) on and after January 1, 1987, with respect to any
grant deed conveying real property located wholly within the city
shall be transferred monthly by the county recorder to the city
treasurer of the city to reimburse the city for the expenses incurred
by the city engineer in conducting that survey.
   (c) Notwithstanding Section 2231 of the Revenue and Taxation Code,
and except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), no funds
collected by the county recorder for the survey monument preservation
fund shall be transferred to, or deposited in, any other fund or
used for any other purpose. 
  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.