Bill Text: CA SB259 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public Utilities Commission: oversight of electrical corporations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB259 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB259-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 259
Introduced by Senator Wilk |
January 26, 2021 |
An act relating to the Public Utilities Commission.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 259, as introduced, Wilk.
Public Utilities Commission: oversight of electrical corporations.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan to the commission for review and approval, as specified. Existing law requires a wildfire mitigation plan of an electrical corporation to include, among other things, protocols for deenergizing portions of the electrical distribution system that consider the associated impacts on public safety, as well as protocols related to mitigating the public safety impacts of those protocols, including impacts on critical first responders and on health and communications infrastructure.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to strengthen the commission’s oversight
of electrical corporations’ efforts to reduce their fire risk and use of deenergization events.