BILL NUMBER: AB 426	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 12, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 10, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 27, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 8, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Cox and Richman
    (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Bates, Benoit, Canciamilla,
Cogdill, Cohn, Dutton, Houston, La Malfa, Leslie, Matthews,
Nakanishi, Steinberg, and Wolk) 
    (Coauthors:  Senators Aanestad,  Battin, Chesboro,
Denham, Johnson, McClintock, McPherson, Morrow, Oller, Ortiz, and
Torlakson) 
    (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aghazarian, Bates, Benoit,
Bermudez, Canciamilla, Cogdill, Cohn, Dutton, Garcia, Houston, La
Malfa, Leslie, Lieber, Longville, Matthews, Maze, Nakanishi,
Steinberg, and Wolk) 
    (Coauthors:  Senators Aanestad, Battin, Bowen, Chesbro,
Denham, Johnson, Kuehl, McClintock, McPherson, Morrow, Oller, Ortiz,
Scott, and Torlakson) 

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2003

   An act to add Section 9607.5 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to local publicly owned electric utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 426, as amended, Cox.  Local publicly owned electric utilities:
  cost responsibility surcharge.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations.
Under existing law, the commission has imposed a cost responsibility
surcharge on municipal departing load, as defined in commission
decisions.  Existing law relative to electrical restructuring, with
certain exceptions, prohibits a local publicly owned electric utility
from providing electric service to a retail customer of an
electrical corporation unless the customer first confirms in writing
an obligation to pay to the electrical corporation a nonbypassable
generation-related transition charge established by the regulatory
body for that electrical corporation.
   This bill would prohibit the commission from imposing any 
cost   charge  , including any  cost 
responsibility surcharge, on a customer of a local publicly owned
electric utility if the customer's service location has not
previously received service from an electrical corporation.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
State-mandated local program:  no.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 9607.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   9607.5.  Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall not
impose any  cost   charge  , including any
cost responsibility surcharge, on a customer of a local publicly
owned electric utility if the customer's service location has not
previously received service from an electrical corporation.