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AB-426 Local publicly owned electric utilities: cost responsibility surcharge.(2003-2004)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 08, 2003
Amended  IN  Senate  June 27, 2003
Amended  IN  Senate  July 10, 2003
Amended  IN  Senate  June 14, 2004
Amended  IN  Senate  August 12, 2004
Amended  IN  Senate  August 18, 2004

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2003–2004 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 426

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Cox, Richman
 (Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Aghazarian, Bates, Benoit, Bermudez, Canciamilla, Cogdill, Cohn, Dutton, Garcia, Houston, La Malfa, Leslie, Lieber, Longville, Matthews, Maze, Nakanishi, Steinberg, Wolk)
 (Coauthor(s): Senator Aanestad, Battin, Bowen, Chesbro, Denham, Johnson, Kuehl, McClintock, McPherson, Morrow, Oller, Ortiz, Scott, Torlakson)

February 14, 2003

An act to add Section 9607.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to local publicly owned electric utilities.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 426, as amended, Cox. Local publicly owned electric utilities: cost responsibility surcharge.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, the commission has imposed a cost responsibility surcharge on municipal departing load, as defined in commission decisions. Existing law relative to electrical restructuring, with certain exceptions, prohibits a local publicly owned electric utility from providing electric service to a retail customer of an electrical corporation unless the customer first confirms in writing an obligation to pay to the electrical corporation a nonbypassable generation-related transition charge established by the regulatory body for that electrical corporation.
This bill would prohibit the commission from imposing any cost charge, including any cost responsibility surcharge, on a customer of a local publicly owned electric utility if the customer’s service location has not previously received service from an electrical corporation.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 9607.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

9607.5.
 Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall not impose any cost charge, including any cost responsibility surcharge, on a customer of a local publicly owned electric utility if the customer’s service location has not previously received service from an electrical corporation.