BILL NUMBER: SBX2 83	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 25, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Johnson

                        JUNE 5, 2001

   An act to add Section 706 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 83, as amended, Johnson.  Public Utilities Commission:
electrical corporations: billing statements.
   (1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Water Resources to
issue revenue bonds for the purpose of entering into contracts for
the purchase of electric power and to sell power to retail end-use
customers and to local publicly owned electric utilities.  Existing
law requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine that
portion of each existing electrical corporation's retail rate
effective on January 5, 2001, that is equal to the difference between
the generation related component of the retail rate and the sum of
the costs of the utility's own generation, qualifying facility
contracts, existing bilateral contracts, and ancillary services, to
be known as the California Procurement Adjustment.  Existing law
requires the commission to further determine the amount of the
California Procurement Adjustment that is allocable to the power sold
by the department, which is payable by each electrical corporation
to the department for deposit in the Department of Water Resources
Electric Power Fund, and known as the Fixed Department of Water
Resources Set-Aside.
   This bill would require the commission to require an electrical
corporation, the retail rates of which include a component dedicated
to the repayment of bonds issued pursuant to that existing law, to
include on the monthly billing statement of each customer a 
specified  statement regarding that dedicated rate component
 that includes certain information  relating to the
enactment of the existing law.  Because a violation of an order or
other requirement of the commission is a crime, this bill would
create a new crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.

  (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 706 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   706.  The commission shall require an electrical corporation, the
retail rates of which include a component dedicated to the repayment
of bonds issued pursuant to Senate Bill 31 of the 2001-02 First
Extraordinary Session (Chapter 9 of the Statutes of 2001), to include
on the monthly billing statement of each customer a statement
regarding that dedicated rate component  that includes all of
the following information:
   (a) A statement that the dedicated rate component is pursuant to
the enactment of Senate Bill 31 of the 2001-02 First Extraordinary
Session.
   (b) The Assembly and Senate floor votes on Senate Bill 31 of the
2001-02 First Extraordinary Session.
   (c) A statement that Senate Bill 31 of the 2001-02 First
Extraordinary Session was signed into law by Governor Gray Davis on
May 10, 2001.   , as follows:  "This component of your
rate is a result of the enactment of Senate Bill 31 of the 2001-02
First Extraordinary Session.  Senate Bill 31 was signed into law by
Governor Gray Davis on May 10, 2001.  The following legislators voted
"no" on Senate Bill 31:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Ashburn, Bates,
Bogh, Briggs, Bill Campbell, John Campbell, Cogdill, Cox, Daucher,
Dickerson, Harman, Hollingsworth, Kelley, La Suer, Leach, Leonard,
Leslie, Maddox, Maldonado, Mountjoy, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco,
Richman, Runner, Strickland, Wyland, Wyman, and Zettel, and Senators
Ackerman, Battin, Brulte, Dunn, Haynes, Johannessen, Johnson, Knight,
Margett, McClintock, McPherson, Monteith, Morrow, Oller, and
Poochigian." 
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because the
only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district
will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction,
eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime
or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government
Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.