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Bill No: SB 1891
Author: Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications
Committee
Amended: 8/4/04
Vote: 21
SENATE ENERGY, U.&C. COMMITTEE : 6-0, 4/13/04
AYES: Bowen, Alarcon, Dunn, McClintock, Murray, Sher
NO VOTE RECORDED: Morrow, Battin, Vasconcellos
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SENATE FLOOR : 37-0, 5/24/04
AYES: Aanestad, Ackerman, Alarcon, Alpert, Ashburn,
Battin, Bowen, Brulte, Burton, Cedillo, Chesbro, Denham,
Ducheny, Escutia, Figueroa, Florez, Hollingsworth,
Johnson, Karnette, Kuehl, Machado, Margett, McClintock,
McPherson, Morrow, Murray, Oller, Ortiz, Perata,
Poochigian, Romero, Scott, Soto, Speier, Torlakson,
Vasconcellos, Vincent
NO VOTE RECORDED: Dunn, Sher, Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/12/04 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Public utilities
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes technical, non-controversial
changes to utility-related statutes.
CONTINUED
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Assembly Amendments make further clean-up changes to the
codes.
ANALYSIS : Existing law requires the State Public
Utilities Commission to require all residential units in an
apartment or similar multiunit residential structure,
condominium, or mobilehome park built after July 1, 1982,
to be individually metered for electric and gas service. A
dormitory or other housing accommodation provided by any
postsecondary educational institution for students or
employees and farmworker housing are exempt from the
requirement.
Separate metering for gas service is not required for
residential units which are not equipped with gas
appliances requiring venting or that receive most of the
energy used for water or space heating from a solar energy
system or through cogeneration technology.
This bill:
1.Renumbers a provision of the Public Utilities Code to
eliminate duplicative statutory numbering.
2.Creates an exemption from a requirement that multi-unit
residential complexes must be individually metered for
electrical and gas service to allow multi-unit complexes
to not have gas meters if they are only equipped with
vented decorative appliances (gas fireplaces).
3.Deletes two sections in the Public Utilities Code that
are duplicative of similar sections in the Public
Resources Code.
Comments
This is the annual committee bill which contains
non-controversial measures that do not make substantive
changes in policy.
The bill renumbers a provision of the Public Utilities Code
to eliminate duplicative statutory numbering.
Additionally, this bill deletes two code sections in the
Public Utilities Code that were repealed and recast in the
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Public Resources Code by SB 183 (Sher), Chapter 666,
Statutes of 2003; however, because SB 168 (Senate Energy,
Utilities and Communications Committee), Chapter 733,
Statutes of 2003, also amended these code sections, the
sections were never deleted from the Public Utilities Code.
This bill also addresses an issue that has been raised by
San Diego Gas and Electric Company concerning gas meters on
multi-unit residential complexes to specifically allow new
apartment complexes to install gas fireplaces without
installing individual gas meters on each unit.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Aghazarian, Bates, Benoit, Berg, Bermudez, Bogh,
Campbell, Canciamilla, Chan, Chavez, Chu, Cogdill, Cohn,
Corbett, Correa, Cox, Daucher, Diaz, Dutra, Dutton,
Dymally, Firebaugh, Frommer, Garcia, Goldberg, Hancock,
Harman, Haynes, Jerome Horton, Shirley Horton, Houston,
Jackson, Keene, Kehoe, Koretz, La Malfa, La Suer, Laird,
Leno, Leslie, Levine, Lieber, Liu, Longville, Lowenthal,
Maddox, Maldonado, Matthews, Maze, McCarthy, Montanez,
Mountjoy, Mullin, Nakanishi, Nakano, Nation, Negrete
McLeod, Pacheco, Parra, Pavley, Plescia, Reyes, Richman,
Ridley-Thomas, Runner, Salinas, Samuelian, Simitian,
Spitzer, Steinberg, Strickland, Vargas, Wesson, Wiggins,
Wolk, Wyland, Yee, Nunez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Oropeza
NC:cm 8/13/04 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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