BILL NUMBER: AB 1350	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 16, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 7, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 19, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Canciamilla

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to add  Section 625.1 to   and repeal
Section 625.1 of  the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas
corporations, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1350, as amended, Canciamilla.  Gas corporations:
condemnation.
   (1) Existing law prohibits a public utility that offers
competitive services, other than a railroad corporation, a refined
petroleum product common carrier pipeline corporation, or a water
corporation, or an electrical company or gas corporation that needs
to meet its commission-ordered obligation to serve, from condemning
any property for the purpose of competing with another entity in the
offering of those competitive services, unless the Public Utilities
Commission finds that  such an action   the
condemnation  would serve the public interest.
   This bill would  provide that   authorize
 , notwithstanding the above prohibition, a gas corporation
 public utility may   to  exercise the
power of eminent domain to condemn any property for the purpose of
competing with another entity in the offering of natural gas and
services related to natural gas, but only  to as to such
  as to  property for which the gas corporation
 public utility  has filed a complaint in eminent
domain in superior court on or before  December 
October  31, 2002.  The bill would also provide that it shall
become inoperative on  December   October 
31, 2002, and, as of  June   April  1,
2003, is repealed.
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote:  2/3.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
State-mandated local program:  no.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 625.1 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   625.1.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 625, a gas corporation
 public utility  may exercise the power of eminent
domain, including, but not limited to, any authority provided by
Title 7 (commencing with Section 1230.010) of Part 3 of the Code of
Civil Procedure, to condemn any property for the purpose of competing
with another entity in the offering of natural gas and services
related to natural gas, but only as to  such 
property for which the gas corporation  public utility
 has filed a complaint in eminent domain in superior court
on or before  December   October  31, 2002.

   (b) This section shall become inoperative on  December
  October  31, 2002, and, as of  June
  April  1, 2003, is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute that is enacted before  December 
 October  31, 2002, provides to the contrary.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to immediately authorize the necessary condemnation of
property by a gas corporation  public utility  for
the purpose of competing with another entity offering natural gas and
services related to natural gas prohibited by existing law, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.