BILL NUMBER: AB 583	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Leslie

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2003

   An act to amend Section 377 of the Public Utilities Code, relating
to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 583, as amended, Leslie.  Generation facilities:  regulation.
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to regulate
facilities for the generation of electricity owned by any public
utility prior to January 1, 1997, until the owner of those facilities
has applied to the commission to dispose of those facilities and has
been authorized by the commission to undertake that disposal.
Existing law prohibits any facility for the generation of electricity
owned by a public utility to be disposed of prior to January 1,
2006.
   This bill would exempt from those provisions the sale  ,
transfer, abandonment, or other disposition  of a facility for
the generation of electricity, or  the sale, transfer,
abandonment, or other disposition  of an interest in a facility
for the generation of electricity, that is located outside of this
state and is owned exclusively by a public utility that serves
 50,000   60,000  or fewer service
connections in this state.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 377 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   377.   (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission
shall continue to regulate the facilities for the generation of
electricity owned by any public utility prior to January 1, 1997,
that are subject to commission regulation until the owner of those
facilities has applied to the commission to dispose of those
facilities and has been authorized by the commission under Section
851 to undertake that disposal.  Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, except as provided in subdivision (b), no facility for the
generation of electricity owned by a public utility may be disposed
of prior to January 1, 2006.  The commission shall ensure that public
utility generation assets remain dedicated to service for the
benefit of California ratepayers.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), this section does not apply
 to the sale of a facility for the generation of electricity,
or of an   to the sale, transfer, abandonment, or other
disposition of a facility for the generation of electricity, or the
sale, transfer, abandonment, or other disposition of an 
interest in a facility for the generation of electricity, that is
located outside of this state and is owned exclusively by a public
utility that serves  50,000   60,000  or
fewer service connections in this state.