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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 2nd Ext.
Assembly Bill
No. 7
Introduced by Assembly Member Dixon
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Chen, Megan Dahle, Davies, Flora, Gallagher, Lackey, Mathis, Joe Patterson, Sanchez, Ta, and Wallis)
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September 11, 2024 |
An act to add Section 25365 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 7, as introduced, Dixon.
Energy: gasoline pricing.
The Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act of 1980 requires operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission that contains certain information regarding its refining activities related to the production of gasoline that month. Existing law requires the commission to post, among other things, the reported data, in aggregate, on its internet website within 45 calendar days of the end of each calendar month.
This bill would additionally require the commission to post, and regularly update, a dashboard on its internet website that includes the difference in average gasoline prices in California compared to national average gasoline prices, California-specific
taxes, fees, regulations, and policies that directly or indirectly contribute to higher gasoline prices within the state and their individual contribution to the difference in average gasoline prices, and any substantiated evidence of price gouging or other anticompetitive behavior within the petroleum industry and its contribution to the difference in average gasoline prices, as specified.
Digest Key
Vote:
MAJORITY
Appropriation:
NO
Fiscal Committee:
YES
Local Program:
NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 25365 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25365.
The commission shall post and regularly update a dashboard on its internet website that includes all of the following information:(a) The difference in average gasoline prices in California compared to national average gasoline prices.
(b) The identification of all California-specific taxes, fees, regulations, and policies that directly or indirectly contribute to higher gasoline prices within the state, and the relative contribution of each individual tax, fee, regulation, or policy to the price difference identified in subdivision (a), including taxes, fees, regulations, and policies that contribute to higher costs for entities subject to Section 25354, to the extent that these higher costs are passed
on to consumers.
(c) Any substantiated evidence of price gouging or other anticompetitive behavior within the petroleum industry, and the relative contribution of this behavior to the price difference identified in subdivision (a).