Bill Text: CA SB1218 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Electrical and gas delivery systems: cybersecurity threats.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-01 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1218 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB1218-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Electrical and gas delivery systems: cybersecurity threats.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-01 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1218 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB1218-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1218
| Introduced by Senator Hill |
February 20, 2020 |
An act to amend Section 394.3 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1218, as introduced, Hill.
Electric service providers: registration fee.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires electric service providers, which are entities that offer electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation but that are not electrical corporations, to register with the commission and to disclose information to potential customers, as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to accept, compile, and attempt to informally resolve consumer complaints regarding electric service providers and to initiate investigations into the activities of electric service providers where the commission reasonably suspects a pattern of customer abuses. Existing law authorizes the commission to enforce specified statutes with respect to electric service providers, but does not grant the commission
jurisdiction to regulate electric service providers other than as specified. Existing law requires the commission to collect a registration fee of $100 from electric service providers and to deposit the registration fee in the Public Utilities Reimbursement Account.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive revision to the requirement that electric service providers pay a $100 registration fee.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 394.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:394.3.
To carry out essential elements of a sustainable and effective consumer protection program in connection with electric service providers offering electrical service to residential and small commercial customers as intended by the Legislature in this article, the following shall apply:(a) The commission shall collect a registration fee of one hundred dollars ($100) from electric service providers required to register under this article, and deposit the fee proceeds in the Public Utilities Reimbursement Account established under pursuant to Section 402.
(b) The commission shall annually determine the costs of administering the registration program and other facets of consumer protection directly related to the direct access transactions of electric service providers. The commission shall collect only those costs not already being collected elsewhere. A registrant who fails to submit to the commission a required fee or a piece of information upon which fees are calculated within 30 days of billing shall be subject to a 15-percent penalty.
