Bill Text: CA SB986 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Energy: natural gas restructuring.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-18 - To Com. on RLS. [SB986 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB986-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 986	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hollingsworth

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2010

   An act to amend Section 328.2 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 986, as introduced, Hollingsworth. Energy: natural gas
restructuring.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, as
defined. Existing law relative to the restructuring of the natural
gas industry requires the commission to require each gas corporation
to provide bundled basic gas service, as defined, to all core
customers in its service territory unless the customer chooses or
contracts to have natural gas purchased and supplied by another
entity. That law additionally requires that a gas corporation
continue to be the exclusive provider of revenue cycle services, as
defined, in its service territory, with certain exceptions.
   This bill would make various technical, nonsubstantive changes to
the above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 328.2 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   328.2.  The commission shall require each gas corporation to
provide bundled basic gas service to all core customers  in
  within  its service territory unless the customer
chooses or contracts to have natural gas purchased and supplied by
another entity. A public utility gas corporation shall continue to be
the exclusive provider of revenue cycle services to all customers
 in   within  its service territory, except
that an entity purchasing and supplying natural gas under the
commission's existing core aggregation program may perform billing
and collection services for its customers under the same terms as
currently authorized by the commission, and except that a supplier of
natural gas to noncore customers may perform billing and collection
for natural gas supply for its customers. The gas corporation shall
continue to calculate its charges for services provided by that
corporation. If the commission establishes credits to be provided by
the gas corporation to core aggregation or noncore customers who
obtain billing or collection services from entities other than the
gas corporation, the credit shall be equal to the billing and
collection services costs actually avoided by the gas corporation.
The commission shall require the distribution rate to continue to
include after-meter services.