BILL NUMBER: AB 811	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER   408
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 16, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 16, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 2, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 30, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 25, 1999
	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  367.7 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 811, 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 June 30, 2000, that is capable of recording
hourly data is required to be calculated based on the actual hourly
data for that customer.  For customers with meters, as prescribed,
installed before June 30, 2000, the bill would require the energy
credit, on a one-time basis before 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 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.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 367.7 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   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 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 June 30, 2000, that is capable of recording hourly data shall,
at the election of the customer, on a one-time basis before 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  implemented by the commission pursuant to
subdivision (b)  may be recoverable through rates for that customer
class, if the commission finds that the costs are reasonable.
   (d) The methodology  implemented by the commission pursuant to
subdivisions (b) and (c) 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.