BILL NUMBER: SB 1299	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications
(Senators Bowen (Chair), Alarcon, Baca, Brulte, Hughes, Kelley,
Mountjoy, Peace, Solis, Speier, and Vasconcellos)

                        MARCH 1, 1999

   An act to repeal Section 9502 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1299, as introduced, Committee on Energy, Utilities and
Communications.    Low-income weatherization report.
   Existing law requires each publicly owned electric and gas
utility, on a biennial basis, to submit a prescribed low-income
weatherization report to the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission.
   This bill would repeal that provision.
   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  Section 9502 of the Public Utilities Code is repealed.

   9502.  On or before December 1, 1994, and on a biennial basis
thereafter, each publicly owned electric and gas utility shall submit
a report to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission describing the status of their low-income weatherization
programs required by Sections 9500 and 9501.  Thereafter, as part of
the biennial conservation report prepared pursuant to Section 25401.1
of the Public Resources Code, the commission shall report to the
Legislature summarizing publicly owned utility efforts to comply with
Sections 9500 and 9501.