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

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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]

Download: California-2013-AB719-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 719	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 12, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2013

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 amended, Roger Hernández. Energy: energy efficiency:
street light pole.
   Under the Public Utilities Act, or the act, the Public Utilities
Commission, or the 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.
   This bill would require the  commission   PUC
, on or before March 1, 2014, to order electrical corporations
to submit, on or before July 1, 2015, a tariff to be used, at the
discretion of local governments, to fund energy efficiency
improvements in street light poles owned by the electrical
corporations. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that
utility-owned street light poles, whose electricity use is paid by
local governments, be converted to use cost-effective technology that
reduces electricity consumption and may achieve lower utility bills.

   Under existing law, a violation of the act or any order, decision,
rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.
   Because this bill would require electrical corporations, pursuant
to an order of the PUC, to submit the specified tariff and a
violation of this requirement is a crime, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature that
electrical-corporation-owned street light poles, whose electricity
use is paid by local governments, be converted to use cost-effective
technology that reduces electricity consumption so that a city,
county, or city and county may achieve lower utility bills for the
electricity used by these street light poles.
  SEC. 2.  Section 384.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   384.5.  (a) On or before March 1, 2014, the commission shall order
electrical corporations to submit, on or before July 1, 2015, a
tariff to be used, at the discretion of local governments, to fund
energy efficiency improvements in street light poles owned by the
electrical corporations to ensure reduced energy consumption for
local governments who are streetlight customers covered by these
tariffs.
   (b) The tariff shall be designed to allow local governments to
remit the cost of the improvement through the tariff over time,
resulting in reduced energy consumption, without shifting costs to
nonparticipating ratepayers. The cost of the improvement shall be
identified separately rather than included within the charge for
electrical service.
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), the improvement performed
pursuant to the tariff submitted under subdivision (a) shall be
eligible for any rebate or incentives available through
ratepayer-funded programs intended to increase energy efficiency.

   (d) The electrical corporation that owns the street light poles
shall install or otherwise make the energy efficiency improvements
selected by the local government with an appropriately trained
workforce in accordance with all applicable safety orders of the
commission.  
   (d) 
    (e)  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. 3.   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.