BILL NUMBER: AB 1157	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Canciamilla

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2003

   An act relating to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1157, as introduced, Canciamilla.  Public utilities: water
rates.
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish
rates for water corporations and requires the commission to issue a
final decision, within a specified timeframe, on a water corporation'
s application, involving a water corporation with greater than 10,000
service connections, for a general rate increase pursuant to the
commission's rate case plan for general rate increase applications.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the
requirement that the commission issue a final decision in an
application by a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service
connections, is without regard to when the application is filed or
was previously filed.
   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.  In adding Section 455.2 to the Public Utilities Code,
the Legislature intended that it apply to every general rate case
application of a water corporation with greater than 10,000 service
connections, without regard to when the application is filed or was
previously filed.  This section does not constitute a change in, but
is declaratory of, existing law.