Bill Text: CA SB925 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Mobile telephony service base transceiver station towers: performance reliability standards.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-12 - Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. [SB925 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB925-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 925
| Introduced by Senator Glazer (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan) (Coauthors: Senators Dodd, Hill, Stern, and Wilk) |
February 04, 2020 |
An act to add Section 776.4 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to communications.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 925, as introduced, Glazer.
Mobile telephony service base transceiver station towers: performance reliability standards.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop and implement performance reliability standards for backup power systems installed on the property of residential and small commercial customers by a facilities-based provider of telephony services upon determining that the benefits of the standards exceed the costs.
This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to develop and implement performance reliability standards, as specified, for all mobile telephony service base transceiver station towers, commonly known as “cell towers.”
Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule,
direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.
Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 776.4 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:776.4.
(a) The commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, shall develop and implement performance reliability standards for all mobile telephony service base transceiver station towers. Those standards shall do both of the following:(1) Establish a minimum operating life for backup battery power systems of no less than 72 hours.
(2) Establish means to warn a customer when the backup power system is low or when the transceiver system can no longer be supported by the backup power system.
(b) In developing and implementing any standards pursuant to subdivision (a), the commission shall consider current
best practices and technical feasibility for establishing backup power system requirements.
(c) The commission shall collect data necessary to identify the mobile telephony service base transceiver station infrastructure that shall be subject to the performance reliability standards developed and implemented pursuant to subdivision (a).
(d) The commission may require a mobile telephony services provider to collect and forward to the commission any relevant information that may be useful to the commission’s development or implementation of performance reliability standards pursuant to this section.
