BILL NUMBER: AB 811	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 19, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 7, 1999

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 amended, 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 implement a methodology
whereby the Power Exchange energy credit for a customer with a meter
capable of recording hourly data is calculated based on the actual
hourly data for that customer.  The bill would require the energy
credit to be the sum of the products of the Power Exchange energy
costs authorized by the commission and the actual hourly recorded
usage of the customer for each hour in the billing period.   The
bill would provide that the methodology shall not result in any
shifts in cost between customer classes and shall be consistent with
a specified provision of existing law. 
   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 implement a methodology whereby the Power
Exchange energy credit for a customer with a meter capable of
recording hourly data is calculated based on the actual hourly data
for that customer.  The Power Exchange energy credit shall be equal
to the sum of the products of (1) the Power Exchange energy costs
authorized by the commission, and (2) the actual hourly recorded
usage of the customer for each hour in the billing period.  
   (c) The methodology developed by the commission pursuant to
subdivision (b) shall not result in any shifts in cost between
customer classes and shall be consistent with the firewall provision
set forth in subdivision (e) of Section 367.