Bill Text: CA SB1119 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public utilities: gas corporations: gas plants: new construction or substantial modification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-19 - May 19 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1119 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1119
| Introduced by Senator Limón |
February 16, 2022 |
An act to add Section 1001.6 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1119, as amended, Limón.
Public utilities: gas corporations: gas plants: new construction or substantial modification.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law prohibits a gas corporation from constructing a gas plant, as defined, or an extension of a gas plant without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity requires or will require that construction.
This bill would authorize the commission, in issuing a certificate for the construction of a new gas plant or a substantial modification of an existing gas plant, to take into consideration the need for the new gas plant or substantially modified gas plant as it relates to the provision of safe, reliable, and affordable electrical or gas service, the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction target,
service and the environmental impact impacts of the construction, new or substantially modified gas plant, including impacts on surrounding communities.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1001.6 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:1001.6.
In issuing a certificate for the construction of a new gas plant or a substantial modification of an existing gas plant, the commission may take into consideration both of the following:(a) The need for the new or substantially modified gas plant as it relates to the provision of safe, reliable, and affordable electrical or gas service, and the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction target set forth in Section 38566 of the Health and Safety Code. service.
(b) The environmental impacts of the new or substantially
modified gas plant, including impacts on the surrounding communities.
