Bill Text: CA SB70 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electricity: undergrounding of electrical infrastructure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 400, Statutes of 2019. [SB70 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB70-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
March 19, 2019 |
Senate Bill | No. 70 |
Introduced by Senator Nielsen |
January 09, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law authorizes the Central Valley Project to provide for the construction, in a specified manner, of a system of works for the conservation, development, storage, distribution, and utilization of water, with incidental generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical power. Existing law defines the term “state agency” for the purpose of the project.
This
bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that definition.
Digest Key
Vote: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.
Section 764.7 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:764.7.
(a) The commission, on and after January 1, 2021, shall require each electrical corporation to do both of the following:SEC. 3.
Division 2.2 (commencing with Section 5600) is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:DIVISION 2.2. Electrical Infrastructure Undergrounding Working Group
5600.
For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply:5602.
(a) The Electrical Infrastructure Undergrounding Working Group is hereby established in state government to promote the undergrounding of electrical infrastructure and the implementation of a statewide joint trenching policy.5604.
The working group shall consist of representatives from all of the following entities:SEC. 4.
The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Electrical Infrastructure Undergrounding Working Group in the 2019–20 fiscal year for its administration.SEC. 5.
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.“State agency” includes any irrigation district, reclamation district, municipal utility district, public utility district, water district, water storage district, and any public or municipal corporation, political subdivision, district, state agency or authority now or hereafter organized under and by virtue of the laws of the state now in effect or hereafter enacted.