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April 20, 2023
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1429
Introduced by Assembly Member Boerner
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February 17, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 739.11 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1429, as amended, Boerner.
Electrical corporations and gas corporations: rates and charges.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law requires the commission to direct each gas corporation and electrical corporation that, for some portion of residential customers, employs every-other-month meter reading and estimates bills for months when the customer’s meter is not read to include in its tariffs the methodology it employs to estimate bills for those months.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision that requires inclusion in those tariffs of the methodology for estimating bills.
This bill would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to evaluate the energy usage estimation methodologies and mechanisms of electrical corporations and gas corporations in order to correct inaccurate energy usage estimates.
Digest Key
Vote:
MAJORITY
Appropriation:
NO
Fiscal Committee:
NOYES
Local Program:
NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 739.11 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:739.11.
(a) For bills issued to customers of gas corporations and electrical corporations in which usage is estimated, it is the intent of the Legislature that, to the extent practicable, the methodology for estimation be simple, transparent, and cost effective to the customer, and produce reasonably accurate results.(b) For each gas corporation and electrical corporation that, for some portion of residential customers, employs every-other-month meter reading and estimates bills for months when the customer’s meter is not read, the commission shall direct the gas corporation or electrical corporation to include in its tariffs the methodology it employs to estimate bills for those months when the meter is not read.
(c) The commission shall evaluate, in a new or existing proceeding, the energy usage estimation methodologies and mechanisms of electrical corporations and gas corporations in order to correct inaccurate energy usage estimates.
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