BILL NUMBER: AB 67	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 24, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 14, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Levine

                        DECEMBER 21, 2004

   An act to add Section 747 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to energy.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 67, as amended, Levine  Energy: rates: report to  the 
Legislature.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations
and gas corporations, as defined. Under existing law, a public
utility has a duty to serve, including furnishing and maintaining
adequate, efficient, just and reasonable service, instrumentalities,
equipment, and facilities as are necessary to promote the safety,
health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons and the public.
Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges
for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges
be just and reasonable.
   This bill would require the president of the commission to
annually report to the appropriate policy committees of the
Legislature on the costs of programs and activities conducted by
 each   an  electrical corporation 
and   or  gas corporation  that have more than
a specified number of customers in California  , including
activities conducted to comply with their duty to serve.
   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 747 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   747.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission
reduce rates for electricity and natural gas to the lowest amount
possible  while maintaining adequate service  .
   (b) The president of the commission shall annually appear before
the appropriate policy committees of the Senate and Assembly to
report on the costs of programs and activities conducted by each
electrical corporation and gas corporation  that is subject to
this section  , including activities conducted to comply with
their duty to serve.  The report shall identify, clearly and
concisely, all of the following:
   (1) Each program  or activity  mandated by
statute and its annual cost to ratepayers.
   (2) Each program  or activity  mandated by the
commission and its annual cost to ratepayers.
   (3)  Electricity   Energy  purchase
contract costs and bond-related costs incurred pursuant to Division
27 (commencing with Section 80000) of the Water Code.
   (4) All other aggregated categories of costs currently recovered
in retail rates  as determined by the commission   .

    (c)     As used in this section, the
reporting requirements apply to electrical corporations with at least
1,000,000 retail customers in California and gas corporations with
at least 500,000 retail customers in California  .