BILL NUMBER: SB 1299 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 7, 2000
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 amend Sections 25421 and 25449.4 of the Public
Resources Code, and to repeal Section 9502 of the Public
Utilities Code, relating to public utilities
resources, and making an appropriation therefor .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1299, as amended, Committee on Energy, Utilities and
Communications. Low-income Energy resources
conservation: low-income weatherization report.
Existing
(1) Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission to administer the State Energy
Conservation Assistance Account, a continuously appropriated account,
in the General Fund until January 1, 2001, to provide grants and
loans to local governments and public institutions to maximize energy
use savings. All loans outstanding as of that date are required to
continue to be repaid as specified until paid in full, and all
unexpended funds in the account on and after that date, except as
specified, are required to revert to the General Fund.
This bill would extend the operation of those provisions to
January 1, 2011, and would thereby make an appropriation by extending
the time during which the funds in a continuously appropriated
account are made available.
(2) Existing law, until January 1, 2002, requires the commission
to enter into agreements with the Regents of the University of
California, the Trustees of the California State University, the
Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the
State Department of Education to expend specified funds for certain
purposes relating to energy conservation. Existing law creates the
Local Jurisdiction Energy Assistance Account in the General Fund for
the purposes of these provisions and requires the funds in the
account to be disbursed by the Controller as authorized by the
commission. All loans outstanding as of January 1, 2002, are required
to continue to be repaid as specified until paid in full, and all
unexpended funds in the account on and after that date, except as
specified, are required to be deposited in the Federal Trust Fund and
expended for the purposes for which federal oil overcharge funds are
available.
This bill would extend the operation of those provisions to
January 1, 2011, and would thereby make an appropriation by extending
the time during which the specified funds are available for
disbursement.
(3) 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 commission
.
This bill would repeal that provision.
Vote: majority 2/3 .
Appropriation: no yes . Fiscal
committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 25421 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:
25421. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), this chapter
shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2001
2011 , and as of that date is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute, which is enacted before January 1, 2001
2011 , deletes or extends that date.
(b) All loans outstanding as of January 1, 2001
2011 , shall continue to be repaid on a semiannual basis,
as specified in Section 25415, until paid in full. All unexpended
funds in the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account on January
1, 2001 2011 , and thereafter, except
to the extent those funds are encumbered pursuant to Section 25417.5,
shall revert to the General Fund.
SEC. 2. Section 25449.4 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
25449.4. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), this chapter
shall remain in effect until January 1, 2002
2011 , and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute which is enacted before January 1, 2002
2011 , deletes or extends that date.
(b) All loans outstanding as of January 1, 2002
2011 , shall continue to be repaid in accordance with a
schedule established by the commission pursuant to Section 25442.7,
until paid in full. All unexpended funds in the Local Jurisdiction
Energy Assistance Account on January 1, 2002
2011 , and thereafter, except to the extent that those funds
are encumbered pursuant to Section 25443.5, shall be deposited in the
Federal Trust Fund and be available for the purposes for which
federal oil overcharge funds are available pursuant to court judgment
or federal agency order.
SEC. 3. Section 9502 of the Public Utilities Code is
repealed.