Bill Text: CA SB1256 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1256 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Community choice aggregators.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-01 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1256 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB1256-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1256

Introduced by Senator Morrell

February 15, 2018

An act to amend Section 331.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1256, as introduced, Morrell. Community choice aggregators.

Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator, as defined, to aggregate the electrical load of interested electricity consumers within its boundaries and requires a community choice aggregator to file an implementation plan with the Public Utilities Commission.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive revision to the definition of a community choice aggregator.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 331.1 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

331.1.

For purposes of this chapter, “community choice aggregator” means any of the following entities, if that entity is not within the jurisdiction of a local publicly owned electric utility that provided electrical service as of January 1, 2003:

(a) Any city, county, or city and county whose governing board elects to combine the loads of its residents, businesses, and municipal facilities in a communitywide electricity buyers’ program.

(b) Any group of cities, counties, or cities and counties whose governing boards have elected to combine the loads of their programs, through the formation of a joint powers agency established under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code.

(c) The Kings River Conservation District, the Sonoma County Water Agency, and any California public agency possessing statutory authority to generate and deliver electricity at retail within its designated jurisdiction, provided the entity may only combine the loads of residences, businesses, and governmental facilities of cities and counties within, or contiguous to, its jurisdiction that have, by ~~resolution exercised pursuant to~~ resolution, as specified in paragraph (12) of subdivision (c) of Section 366.2, requested the agency to implement a community choice aggregation program.