Legislative
Update
APRIL 1, 2022
Agenda Item: 7
Key Deadlines for the 2022 Legislative Year
• 1/3: Legislature reconvened
• 1/10: Governor submitted budget
• 1/31: Deadline to move 2-year bills out of 1st house
• 2/18: Bill introduction deadline
• 4/29: Policy cmtes to move fiscal bills to fiscal cmtes (1st house) • 5/6: Policy cmtes to move nonfiscal bills to floor (1st house) • 5/20: Fiscal cmtes must move bills to floor (1st house) • 5/27: Last day for bills to be passed out of 1st house • 6/15: Budget bill must be passed
• 7/1: Policy cmtes to meet and report bills (2nd house) • 8/12: Fiscal cmtes to move bills to floor (2nd house) • 8/31: Last day for each house to pass bills
• 9/30: Last day for Governor to sign/veto bills
Agenda Item: 7
Preliminary Bill Tracker - Assembly
Bill # Author Description Sponsor Status
EBCE
Position
AB 1814 Grayson Authorizes CCAs to file applications for PUC programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation electrification CalCCA Asm U&E Cmte 4/6 SUPPORT
AB 1960 Villapudua
Attempts to provide more regional diversity when selecting CPUC commissioners by encouraging the Senate and the Governor to consider permanent residents of northern, southern and the central valley regions of the state Asm U&E
Cmte 3/30
AB 2061 Ting Requires data disclosure on EV charging stations using public or ratepayer money and requires the CEC to assess reliability and equitable access issues Asm Transp
Cmte 3/28 WATCH
AB 2070 Bauer-Kahan
Requires an electrical corporation to notify a fire protection district at least 24 hours before the initiation of a deenergization event or face a civil penalty of $500 and to compensate the fire protection district for one emergency medical transport team Asm U&E
Cmte
AB 2587 E.Garcia
Requires the CPUC to open a proceeding related to procurement of firm zero-carbon resources, based on the findings of the CEC’s report to the Legislature on CA policy that customers are served by 100% renewable and zero-carbon resources by 2045 Asm U&E
Cmte 4/6 WATCH
AB 2667 Friedman
Establishes and requires CEC to administer state IDER Fund to incentivize eligible resources to support statewide consumer adoption of clean DERs including a process to allow an LSE to apply for incentives for its program to reduce its RA obligations NRG and
EDF
Asm U&E
Cmte 4/6
AB 2703 Muratsuchi Establishes reliability standards for ZEV refueling/charging stations Asm Transp Cmte 4/18 WATCH
Agenda Item: 7
Preliminary Bill Tracker - Senate
Bill # Author Description Sponsor Status
EBCE
Position
SB 833 Dodd
Community Energy Resiliency Act of 2022: requires the CEC to develop and implement a grant program for local govts to develop community energy resilience plans and expedite permit review of DERs
The Climate
Center
Sen Approps
Cmte 4/4 WATCH
SB 881 Min Gives CPUC authority to monitor compliance with LSE's IRP GHG emission reductions and penalties/procurement requirements for non-compliance UCS Sen EUC Cmte 3/28
SB 1112 Becker Requires that an energy supplier who engages in tariffed on-bill financing notify their county recorder of a decarbonization upgrade made in a home and associated charges Sen EUC
Cmte
SB 1158 Becker
Changes the Power Source Disclosure rules to require utilities and CCAs to report comparisons of their energy and capacity purchases with their electricity demand on an hourly basis including the associated GHG emissions
Sen EUC
Cmte
SB 1174 Hertzberg Allows the CPUC to waive penalties for RA shortfalls if the energy supplier has contracted for adequate RA and would be supplied but for 3rd party delivery delays American
Clean Power
Sen EUC
Cmte 3/28
SB 1287 Bradford
Requires the CPUC to update the financial security requirements for ESPs and CCAs to include costs for no less than 12 months of incremental procurement incurred by the provider of last resort, upon the customers’ involuntary return Sen EUC
Cmte
SB 1482 Allen Requires mandatory building standards for installation of EV charging infrastructure for parking spaces in new multifamily units Acterra Sen Transp Cmte WATCH
Agenda Item: 7