BILL ANALYSIS
SB 1389
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 1389 (Bowen)
As Amended August 1, 2002
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :26-5
UTILITIES & COMMERCE 14-0
APPROPRIATIONS 20-2
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|Ayes:|Wright, Pescetti, |Ayes:|Steinberg, Alquist, |
| |Calderon, | |Aroner, Cohn, Corbett, |
| |Bill Campbell, | |Correa, Daucher, Diaz, |
| |Canciamilla, Cardenas, | |Firebaugh, Goldberg, |
| |Horton, Kelley, La Suer, | |Maldonado, Negrete |
| |Maddox, Nation, Papan, | |McLeod, |
| |Reyes, Simitian | |Robert Pacheco, Papan, |
| | | |Pavley, Dickerson, |
| | | |Simitian, Washington, |
| | | |Wiggins, Wright |
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| | |Nays:|Ashburn, Zettel |
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SUMMARY : Consolidates and modifies the California Energy
Commission's (CEC) reporting requirements into one integrated
report, and requires the reporting of the energy data needed
from new market participants. Specifically, this bill :
1)Repeals the provisions of law requiring reports on alternative
fuel vehicle infrastructure, energy conservation and energy
technology development.
2)Requires CEC to prepare an integrated energy policy report on
or before November 1, 2003, and every two years thereafter,
consisting of three volumes:
a) Electricity and natural gas markets;
b) Public interest energy strategies; and,
c) Transportation fuels, technologies and infrastructure.
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3)Requires CEC to include in the policy report an evaluation of
the international energy market and its export promotion
activities.
4)Establishes a process for CEC to collect data from energy
market participants to support its planning and forecasting
duties, to maintain the confidentiality of data, and to impose
penalties for noncompliance.
5)Specifies that CEC is to continue to collect data for
petroleum fuel pursuant to existing law, but allows CEC to
also collect information about consumers' petroleum fuel use
from consumers' participation in surveys and other research
techniques.
6)Modifies existing, and enacts additional provisions governing
the designation of public records, and the circumstances under
which they will be disclosed by CEC.
EXISTING LAW requires CEC to prepare various reports, including:
a) A draft and final electricity report based on reporting
and forecasting required to be submitted by electric
utilities;
b) A report regarding emerging trends in energy
availability and use;
c) A report related to energy conservation; and,
d) A report regarding emerging trends in use, availability,
and price of transportation fuels, among other things.
FISCAL EFFECT : Then Assembly Appropriations Committee reports
that CEC indicates that costs to implement the revise reporting
and data collection requirements will be absorbable.
COMMENTS : This bill consolidates CEC's reporting requirements
into one integrated report, and requires reporting of energy
data from new participants in the electric market. This bill's
reporting and data-gathering requirements are also intended to
develop a capability within CEC to conduct the analyses outlined
in this bill.
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This bill repeals and re-enacts the Planning and Forecasting
chapter of the Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Act, which among other things
created CEC in 1974. That law requires CEC to develop long-term
forecasts of state energy needs, primarily to serve as the basis
for the planning and certification of individual power plants.
The changing electrical market has affected the direct
relationship between CEC's planning and siting functions.
SB 110 (Peace), Chapter 581, Statutes of 1996, required CEC to
recommend ways to consolidate and clarify CEC's policy reporting
obligations, and to revise its authority to collect data.
This bill enacts recommendations called for in the report. CEC
is concurrently adopting revisions to its related regulations.
This bill repeals obsolete reporting and data collection
requirements and clarifies CEC's authority to collect data from
new market participants. This bill also grants enforcement
authority to CEC so that data collection according to CEC
regulations can be assured.
Analysis Prepared by : Paul Donahue / U. & C. / (916) 319-2083
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