Bill Text: CA SB1218 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
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-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 01, 2020 |
Introduced by Senator Hill |
February 20, 2020 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Chapter 4.6 (commencing with Section 8375) is added to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:CHAPTER 4.6. Energy Infrastructure Security
8375.
(a) The commission shall adopt inspection, detection, response, and replacement standards, and shall, in an existing proceeding, adopt rules, to address the cybersecurity risks to the transmission and distribution systems of electrical corporations, electrical cooperatives, and gas corporations. The standards or rules, which shall be prescriptive or performance based or both, and may be based on risk management, as appropriate, for each substantial type of equipment or facility, shall provide for secure and reliable service. The commission shall also adopt standards for operation, reliability, and safety during periods of emergency and disaster.8377.
(a) Each local publicly owned electric utility and local publicly owned gas utility shall construct, maintain, and operate its electrical and gas transmission and distribution systems in a manner that will minimize the cybersecurity risks to those lines and equipment.SEC. 3.
The Legislature finds and declares that Section 2 of this act, which adds Sections 8375 and 8377 to the Public Utilities Code, imposes limitations on the public’s right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies within the meaning of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution. Pursuant to that constitutional provision, the Legislature makes the following findings to demonstrate the interest protected by this limitation and the need for protecting that interest:SEC. 4.
The Legislature finds and declares that Section 2 of this act, which adds Sections 8375 and 8377 to the Public Utilities Code, furthers, within the meaning of paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution, the purposes of that constitutional section as it relates to the right of public access to the meetings of local public bodies or the writings of local public officials and local agencies. Pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution, the Legislature makes the following findings:SEC. 5.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because 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.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 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.