Bill Text: CA SB237 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electricity: direct transactions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-20 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 600, Statutes of 2018. [SB237 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB237-Amended.html
Amended
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June 13, 2018 |
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September 11, 2017 |
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September 08, 2017 |
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June 15, 2017 |
Senate Bill | No. 237 |
Introduced by Senator Hertzberg |
February 06, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Prior to June 27, 2017, a court was authorized to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles when a person has failed to appear or failed to pay a fine or bail, with respect to various violations relating to vehicles. Existing law requires the department to suspend, and prohibits the department from issuing or renewing, a person’s driver’s license upon receipt of one of those notices, as specified.
This bill would invalidate any suspension placed on a driver’s license pursuant to that law and, on or before July 1, 2018, require the department to remove any suspension imposed before June 27, 2017,
for failure to make specified payments.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 365.1 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:365.1.
(a) Except as expressly authorized by this section, and subject to the limitations in subdivisions (b) and (c), the right of retail end-use customers pursuant to this chapter to acquire service from other providers is suspended until the Legislature, by statute, lifts the suspension or otherwise authorizes direct transactions. For purposes of this section, “other provider” means any person, corporation, or other entity that is authorized to provide electric service within the service territory of an electrical corporation pursuant to this chapter, and includes an aggregator, broker, or marketer, as defined in Section 331, and an electric service provider, as defined in Section 218.3. “Other provider” does not include a community choice aggregator, as defined in Section 331.1, and the limitations in this section do not apply to the sale of electricity by “other providers” to a community choice aggregator for resale to community choice aggregation electricity consumers pursuant to Section 366.2.SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only 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.The Legislature finds and declares that this act shall not be interpreted to alter existing law regarding suspension of the privilege to operate a motor vehicle in connection with any of the following violations:
(a)Reckless driving, pursuant to Section 23103 of the Vehicle Code.
(b)Reckless driving proximately causing bodily injury to a person, pursuant to Sections 23104 and 23105 of the Vehicle Code.
(c)Driving
under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or both, pursuant to Section 23152 of the Vehicle Code.
(d)Driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or both, and causing bodily injury to another person, pursuant to Section 23153 of the Vehicle Code.
(a)Upon receipt of notification of a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 40508, the department shall take the following action:
(1)If the notice is given pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 40509, if the driving record of the person who is the subject of the notice contains one or more prior notifications of a violation issued pursuant to Section 40509 or 40509.5, and if the person’s driving privilege is not currently suspended under this section, the department shall suspend the driving privilege of the person.
(2)If the notice is given pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 40509.5, and if the driving privilege of the
person who is the subject of the notice is not currently suspended under this section, the department shall suspend the driving privilege of the person.
(b)(1)A suspension under this section shall not be effective before a date 60 days after the date of receipt, by the department, of the notice given specified in subdivision (a), and the notice of suspension shall not be mailed by the department before a date 30 days after receipt of the notice given specified in subdivision (a).
(2)The suspension shall continue until the suspended person’s driving record does not contain any notification of a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 40508.
(c)(1)Any suspension of a person’s driving privilege imposed prior to June 27, 2017, pursuant to this section, as it read prior to June 27, 2017, based on a notice pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 40509, as that subdivision read prior to June 27, 2017, or subdivision (b) of Section 40509.5, as that subdivision read prior to June 27, 2017, or based on a notice pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 40509 where the suspension was imposed because the person’s driving record contained a prior notification of a violation issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 40509, as that subdivision read prior to June 27, 2017, or subdivision (b) of Section 40509.5, as that subdivision read prior to June 27, 2017, shall no longer be valid as of June 27,
2017.
(2)On or before July 1, 2018, the department shall remove any suspension described in paragraph (1).