BILL NUMBER: AB 811	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 17, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 12, 1999
	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   367.7  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,
installed on or after  January 1   June 30
 , 2000, that is capable of recording hourly data  is to
 be calculated based on the actual hourly data for that
customer.  For customers with meters, as prescribed, installed before
 January 1   June 30  , 2000, the bill
would require the energy credit, on a one-time basis before 
January   June 30, 2000, to be based on either the
actual hourly data for the customer or the average load profile for
that customer class, as prescribed. This bill would require recovery
of any costs of  developing   implementing 
the methodology of energy credit payment to be recoverable through
rates for that customer class.  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   367.7  is
added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:  
   367.5.   
   367.7.   (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 installed on or
after  January 1   June 30  , 2000, that is
capable of recording hourly data is calculated based on the actual
hourly data for that customer.  The Power Exchange energy credit for
a customer with a meter installed before  January 1 
 June 30  , 2000, that is capable of recording hourly data
shall, at the election of the customer, on a one-time basis before
 January   June  30, 2000, be calculated
based on either (1) the actual hourly data for that customer or (2)
the average load profile for that customer class.  If the customer
fails to make an election, that customer's Power Exchange  energy
 credit shall continue to be based on the average load profile
for that customer class.
   (c) Additional  incremental  billing costs incurred as a
result of the methodology  developed  
implemented  by the commission pursuant to subdivision (b)
 shall   may  be recoverable through rates
for that customer class , if the commission finds that the costs
are reasonable  .
   (d) The methodology  developed   implemented
 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.                                ____ CORRECTIONS Text
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