BILL NUMBER: AB 811	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Keeley

                        FEBRUARY 24, 1999

   An act to add Section 367.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 811, as introduced, Keeley.  Electrical restructuring.
   The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission
to recover uneconomic costs associated with electrical deregulation,
including transition costs, as defined, to be allocated as
prescribed.  The act requires that individual customers not
experience rate increases as a result of the allocation of transition
costs.
   This bill would require the commission to require a specified
energy credit for customers with meters capable of recording data on
an hourly basis to be based on the actual hourly data recorded by a
customer meter, to be calculated as prescribed.
   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 367.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   367.5.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this
section to ensure that individual customers do not experience rate
increases as a result of the allocation of transition costs, in
accordance with paragraph (2) of subdivision (e) of Section 367.
   (b) The commission shall require the Power Exchange energy credit
for customers with meters capable of recording data on an hourly
basis to be based on the actual hourly data recorded by a customer
meter.  The Power Exchange energy credit shall be calculated by
determining the sum of (1) the total Power Exchange energy cost,
determined by multiplying the hourly Power Exchange energy cost
authorized by the commission by the number of hours in the billing
period, and (2) the total actual usage of the customer, determined by
totalling the actual hourly recorded usages for each hour in the
billing period.