Bill Text: CA SB1135 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electric service: rates: Family Electric Rate Assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 413, Statutes of 2018. [SB1135 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB1135-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
July 03, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
June 20, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Senate
May 01, 2018 |
Senate Bill | No. 1135 |
Introduced by Senator Bradford |
February 13, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(g)All administrative and other costs associated with the implementation of the Family Electric Rate Assistance program shall be recoverable in rates on a nonbypassable basis.
SEC. 2.
Section 739.12 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:739.12.
(a) The commission shall continue a program of assistance to residential customers of the state’s three largest electrical corporations consisting of households of three or more persons with total household annual gross income levels between 200 percent and 250 percent of the federal poverty guideline level. The program shall continue to be referred to as the Family Electric Rate Assistance or FERA program.(d)The commission shall authorize recovery of all costs reasonably incurred in implementing the FERA program, including, but not limited to, FERA discount costs, costs incurred in program implementation, outreach, marketing, regulatory compliance, certification and verification, billing, measurement and evaluation, and capital improvements and upgrades to communications and processing equipment, on a nonbypassable basis through the recovery mechanism established for each electrical corporation for recovery of income-qualified assistance program costs prior to January 1, 2019.