Ava Community Energy Marketing, Regulatory and Legislative Subcommittee
April 19, 2024

Ava 2024 Legislative
Update
Legislative Updates
• 2023 had over 3,000 bills introduced and nearly 400 signed into law • Staff currently tracking the growing list of Assembly and Senate bills • Staff plans to recommend bill positions to Ava Board during May public meeting
Key Deadlines for the 2024 Legislative
Year
January 3: Legislature reconvenes
January 10: Governor submitted budget
February 16: Bill introduction deadline
April 26: Policy cmtes to move fiscal bills to fiscal cmtes (1st house) May 3: Policy cmtes to move nonfiscal bills to floor (1st house) May 17: Fiscal cmtes must move bills to floor (1st house) May 24: Last day for bills to be passed out of 1st house June 15: Budget bill must be passed
July 3: Policy cmtes to meet and report bills (2nd house) August 16: Fiscal cmtes to move bills to floor (2nd house) August 31: Last day for each house to pass bills
September 30: Last day for Governor to sign/veto bills
Bill #
(Author)
Description Potential Staff
Rec. for Board
Brown Act
AB 817
(Pacheco)
Permits a member of a subsidiary body (i.e. CAC) to call in remotely and not disclose their locations
Potentially
Support
Affordability
AB 1999
(Irwin)
Permits CPUC to create income-graduated fix charges no higher than $5 for CARE/FERA customers and $10 for non-CARE/FERA customers AB 2329
(Muratsuchi)
Establishes a Climate Equity Trust Fund to promote affordable electric rates Potentially Support
AB 2672
(Petrie-Norris)
Creates greater access to the CARE program for public housing facilities by ensuring direct benefits go to its residents
Potentially
Support
SB 1130
(Bradford)
Expands FERA program eligibility by eliminating the requirement that a household consist of 3 or more persons
Potentially
Support
SB 1142
(Menjivar)
Adds more protections for customers at-risk of disconnections Potentially Support
Bill # (Author) Description Potential Staff
Rec. for Ava
Electric Vehicles
AB 2427
(McCarty)
Orders GO-Biz to create checklists and best practices to help local govs permit curbside charging stations
SB 233
(Skinner)
Requires agencies to convene a working group to deploy vehicles that have bidirectional capabilities, and permits CARB to require bidirectional charging Building Decarbonization
SB 1054
(Rubio)
Requires the CEC to award grants to support low-income households and their purchase of zero-emitting household appliances
Potentially
Support
SB 1095
(Becker)
Streamlines transition from gas to all-electric in mobile and manufactured homes Potentially Support
SB 1221 (Min) Requires IOUs to annually file a gas map to show foreseeable gas community-wide replacements, and determines cost-effectiveness process for electrification Potentially
Support
Clean Energy Bonds
AB 1567
(Garcia)
Authorizes $2 billion in bonding for clean energy projects Potentially Support
SB 867 (Allen) Authorizes $2 billion in bonding for clean energy projects Potentially Support
Bill # (Author) Description Potential Staff
Rec. for Ava
Utilities
AB 2054 (Bauer-Kahan)Prohibits CEC or CPUC commissioners from being employed by an entity they regulate (including IOUs and CCAs) for 3 years after their commissioner role SB 938 (Min) Prohibits IOUs from charging ratepayers for political lobbying Potentially Support
ACR-153 (Petrie-Norris)Designates March 14 as California Utility Workers Appreciation Day Potentially Support
Transmission
AB 2779 (Petrie-Norris)Directs CAISO to report on the use of new grid enhancing technologies in transmission plans
Potentially
Support
SB 1165 (Padilla) Speeds up agency transmission project authorization by deeming them environmental leadership development projects
Potentially
Support
Renewables
AB 2368 (Petrie-Norris)Will include provisions to more closely coordinate Integrated Resource Planning and Resource Adequacy planning and processes
SB 1305 (Stern) Requires CPUC to order IOU procurement targets for virtual power plants SB 1508 (Stern) Requires CPUC to order IOU and CCA procurement targets for energy storage systems