Bill Text: CA AB719 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Energy: energy efficiency: street light pole.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 616, Statutes of 2013. [AB719 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 719	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to add Section 384.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 719, as introduced, Roger Hernández. Energy: energy efficiency.

   Under the Public Utilities Act (the act), the Public Utilities
Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities,
including electrical corporations. The act requires the commission to
review and adopt a procurement plan for each electrical corporation
in accordance with specified elements, incentive mechanisms, and
objectives. The act requires that an electrical corporation's
proposed procurement plan include certain elements, including a
showing that the electrical corporation will first meet its unmet
needs through all available energy efficiency and demand-reduction
resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible. Existing
law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission, to identify all potentially
achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and
establish efficiency targets. A violation of the act is a crime.
   This bill would require an electrical corporation as part of the
above-described energy efficiency targets to replace low-efficiency
light bulbs with high-efficiency light bulbs in street light poles
that the electrical corporation owns, at the same rate as the city,
county, or city and county in which any of the electrical corporation'
s street light poles are located or at the highest rate of an
adjacent city or county if the street light poles are located in a
city or county that does not own any street light poles. This bill
would state the intent of the Legislature that this program be funded
through existing collection mechanisms, and that the implementation
of this program not result in an increase in any amount collected.
    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 384.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   384.5.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the program
created by this section be funded through existing collection
mechanisms for the purposes of achieving cost-effective electricity
savings and establishing energy efficiency targets, and that the
implementation of this program not result in an increase in any
amount collected for these purposes.
   (b) As part of the energy efficiency targets created pursuant to
Section 454.55, an electrical corporation shall, for street light
poles the electrical corporation owns, implement a program targeting
the replacement of low-efficiency light bulbs with high-efficiency
light bulbs.
   (c) (1) For street light poles owned by an electrical corporation,
the electrical corporation shall install high-efficiency light bulbs
in those street light poles at the same rate that the city, county,
or city and county in which those street light poles are located has
installed high-efficiency light bulbs.
   (2) For street light poles located in a city, county, or city and
county that do not own any street lighting infrastructure, the
electrical corporation shall install high-efficiency light bulbs in
those street light poles owned by the electrical corporation at the
rate of installation of an adjacent city or county with the highest
rate of installation.
   (d) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:
   (1) "Electrical corporation" means an electrical corporation, as
defined in Section 218, with at least 100,000 service connections in
California.
   (2) "Street light pole" means a pole, arm, or fixture used
primarily for street, pedestrian, or security lighting.
  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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