Bill Text: CA AB2143 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Utilities Commission: inspections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-24 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 25. [AB2143 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2143-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2143	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 314 of the Public Utilities Code, relating
to Public Utilities Commission.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2143, as introduced, Buchanan. Public Utilities Commission:
inspections.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities. Existing law authorizes the
commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed
by the commission to inspect, at any time, the accounts, books,
papers, and documents of any public utility, as specified. Existing
law also authorizes the commission, each commissioner, and any
officer of the commission or any employee authorized to administer
oaths to examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of a
public utility in relation to its business and affairs.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   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 314 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   314.  (a) The commission, each commissioner, and each officer and
person employed by the commission may, at any time, inspect the
accounts, books, papers, and documents of any public utility. The
commission, each commissioner, and any officer of the commission or
any employee authorized to administer oaths may examine under oath
any officer, agent, or employee of a public utility in relation to
its business and affairs. Any person, other than a commissioner or an
officer of the commission, demanding to make any inspection shall
produce, under the hand and seal of the commission, authorization to
make the inspection. A written record of the testimony or statement
so given under oath shall be made and filed with the commission.
   (b) Subdivision (a) also applies to inspections of the accounts,
books, papers, and documents of any business  which 
 that  is a subsidiary or affiliate of, or a corporation
 which   that  holds a controlling interest
in, an electrical, gas, or telephone corporation with respect to any
transaction between the electrical, gas, or telephone corporation
and the subsidiary, affiliate, or holding corporation on any matter
that might adversely affect the interests of the ratepayers of the
electrical, gas, or telephone corporation.