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	AB 37	Huffman [D]	Smart Grid Deployment
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to identify alternative options for customers of electrical corporations that decline the installation of wireless advance metering infrastructure devices or smart meters as part of an approved smart grid deployment plan. Requires the CPUC when it has identified those alternative options, to require each electrical corporation to permit a customer to decline the installation of an advanced metering infrastructure device and make the alternative options available.
	AB 56	Hill [D]	Public Utilities: Rate Recovery: Pipeline Safety
Prohibits a public utility from recovering any fine or penalty in any rate approved by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the utility to file reports with specified entities describing how the utility is spending ratepayer funds approved for expenditure by the commission. Requires commission ratemaking policies to reflect safety concerns and ensuring commitments to public safety and to consider safety in rate determinations. Designates the commission as the authority regarding gas pipeline safety.
	AB 603	Perez V [D]	Energy: Renewable Resources
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to design and implement mitigation actions for proposed wind and geothermal powerplants in the planning area subject to the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. Requires the department to collect a one-time application fee for deposit in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund to fund take permit applications. Expands the projects to be eligible under the plan. Requires the department to enter into related agreements. Relates to environmental impact reporting.
	AB 638	Skinner [D]	Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to attain the targets set forth in the Strategy to Reduce Petroleum Dependence as efficiently as possible, coordinate the attainment of the targets with provisions regulating alternative fuels, and require all future regulations and guidelines to maximize the attainment of targets. Requires the commission to adopt a series of interim actions to reduce petroleum fuel consumption and increase alternative fuel consumption.
	AB 644	Blumenfield [D]	Energy: Renewable Energy Facility: Siting
Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the Department of Conservation, to establish criteria for identifying land with a high potential for use as a site of a renewable energy generation facility with a generation capacity of less than 50 megawatts in 3 specific types of parcels and to prepare a list identifying lands meeting the criteria.
	AB 721	Bradford [D]	Renewable Energy Resources: Solar Energy Systems
Amends the renewables portfolio standard program which requires that a retailer seller of electricity purchase a specified minimum percentage of electricity generated by eligible renewable energy resources in any given year as a specified percentage of total kilowatthours sold to retail end-use customers each calendar year. Expands the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource to include a facility that generates, or a renewable energy credit associated with an eligible solar energy system.
	AB 722	Bradford [D]	Utility Rates: Costs and Rate Increases
Declares the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the Public Utilities Commission to prepare and submit a written report to the Governor and the Legislature that contains the commission's recommendations for actions that can be undertaken to limit utility costs and rate increases, as provides.
	AB 723	Bradford [D]	Energy: Public Goods Charge
Amends the Public Utilities Act, the Public Utilities Commission that requires an electrical corporation to identify a separate electrical rate component, commonly referred to as the public goods charge to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy, and research, development, and demonstration programs that enhance system reliability and provide in-state benefits. Extends this requirement. Makes other technical and conforming changes.
	AB 724	Bradford [D]	Electric and Gas Service: Master-Meter Customers
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to open an investigation or other appropriate proceeding to evaluate and report to the Legislature when an owner of a mobilehome park or manufactured housing community that provides master-metered gas or electric service to its residents of the park or community should be required to transfer responsibility for gas or electric service to the gas or electrical corporation providing service in the area in which the park or community is located.
	AB 768	Gatto [D]	California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Requires the State Air Resources Board to allow a regulated entity subject to a low-carbon fuel standard to meet its low-carbon fuel standard obligations by purchasing credits credited by the sale of biomethane renewable gas produced out of state, but distributed to consumers in the state through displacement trade contracts.

	AB 796	Blumenfield [D]	Energy: Clean Energy Economy
Amends the Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Act that establishes criteria for selecting projects related to renewable energy and alternative transportation technologies that would receive financial assistance. Requires the state to establish a program to provide financial assistance in the form of loan guarantees and energy output insurance guarantees to state-based entities.

	AB 864	Huffman [D]	Electricity: Net Energy Metering
Requires that the standard contract or tariff for net energy metering be offered on a first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by eligible customer-generators exceeds 6% of the electric utility's aggregate customer peak demand, and reserves 1% of this limit for large commercial or industrial customer-generators.

	SB 904	Skinner [D]	Energy Efficiency
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require the PUC to take prescribed actions in its energy efficiency proceedings.

	AB 932	Blumenfield [D]	Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority
Amends existing law that creates the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority and prohibits the authority from financing or approving any new program, enterprise, or project on or after January 1, 2007. Makes an exception to the prohibition for a program for the use of renewable energy resources as approved by the Energy Commission, PUC, or local publicly owned electric utility.

	AB 940	Bradford [D]	Public Utilities Commission: Report
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the Public Utilities Act which requires the PUC to report annually to specified legislative committees on funding and expenditures related to certain entities and programs.

	AB 982	Skinner [D]	Energy: Solar Energy Parks Program
Enacts the Solar Energy Parks Act that would establish a program for solar energy parks on state lands. Requires the Energy Commission to determine lands that are suitable for the installation of concentrating solar power energy systems. Establishes a rental fee for a commercial solar energy park development right-of-way grant.

	AB 1054	Skinner [D]	Energy: Clean Energy Financing
Amends existing law regarding the state Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. Requires the authority to administer a Clean Energy Reserve Program developed by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the authority to reduce the costs to property owners of a loan provided by a financial institution that satisfies specified requirements. Requires the authority to make related annual reports.

	AB 1055	Hill [D]	Public Utilities Commission
Prohibits a commissioner of employee of the Public Utilities Commission from knowingly soliciting charitable, political, or other contributions from any person or corporation subject to regulation by the commission, or from any person that is representing, or regularly represents, persons or corporations regulated by the commission. Prohibits a commissioner or employee subject to the commission's Conflict of Interest Code and Statement of Incompatible Activities from knowingly serving as an officer.

	AB 1057	Olsen [R]	Sales and Use Taxes: Exemption
Exempts from the Sales and Use Tax Law the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use primarily in the manufacturing process for use in research and development or for use in air pollution mitigation and qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes.

	AB 1073	Fuentes [D]	Solar Water Heating and Efficiency Act of 2007
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law that establishes the Solar Water Heating and Efficiency Act of 2007, which requires the Public Utilities Commission to evaluate the data available from a specified pilot project.

	AB 1150	Perez V [D]	Self-Generation Incentive Program
Extends the authority of the Public Utilities Commission to authorize electrical corporations to continue making the annual collections under the self-generation incentive program. Relates to eligibility for incentives to distributed energy resources that will achieve reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases. Requires that available incentives be awarded to distributed energy resources including projects in which biogas or landfill gas is captured.

	AB 1160	Hill [D]	Energy: Renewable Energy
States the intention of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a performance-based incentive program that rewards California-based solar companies producing specific levels of renewable energy.

	AB 1186	Skinner [D]	Electrical Restructuring: Cogeneration
Amends existing law that states the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and the restructuring of the electrical services industry, to state the policy of the State is to encourage and support the development of cogeneration as an efficient, environmentally beneficial, competitive energy resource that will enhance the reliability of local generation supply, and promote local business growth.

	AB 1214	Skinner [D]	Electrical Transmission
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would eliminate redundant needs determinations for electrical transmission investments and that would enable a single certificate of public convenience and necessity proceeding to address federally approved electrical transmission plans.

	AB 1260	Knight [D]	Sales and Use Tax
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law which partially exempts from the taxes imposed by the sales and use tax laws, the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, diesel fuel used in farming and food processing.

	AB 1261	Fletcher [R]	Local Government Renewable Energy Self-Generation
Amends existing law regarding the Public Utilities Commission. Makes a substantive, technical revision to the local government renewable energy self-generation program.

	AB 1302	Williams [D]	Energy: Renewable Energy Technologies
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish a program to support emerging renewable technologies in distributed generation.

	AB 1303	Williams [D]	Renewable Energy Resources Program
Requires that 20% of the funds collected pursuant to a renewable energy public good charge be used for programs that are designed to achieve fully competitive and self-sustaining existing in-State renewable electricity generation facilities, and to secure for the environmental, economic, and reliability benefits that continued operation of those facilities will provide during the 2012-2020 business cycle.

	AB 1314	Wieckowski [D]	Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Program
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law that establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), to provide to specified entities, upon appropriate measures.

	AB 1359	Skinner [D]	Public Utility Rates
Relates to the public Utilities Commission which has regulatory authority over public utilities and authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rules and charges be just and reasonable. Makes a nonsubstantive, technical change.

	AB 1370	Hernandez R [D]	Public Utilities Commission: Policies
Amends existing law that requires energy conservation policies to ensure that the costs and expenses of those programs are not passed through to electric or gas ratepayers unless the commission finds and determines that those programs are in the ratepayers' interest. Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the definition of ratepayers' interest.

	AB 1376	Nestande [R]	Sales and Use Tax Exemption: Renewable Energy Facility
Exempts from the Sales and Use Tax Law the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a person for the construction of a facility that will use solar, biomass, wind, and geothermal energy to generate electricity of 10 megawatts or greater.

	AB 1388	Wieckowski [D]	California Alternative Energy Act
Makes a technical change in the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Act. Relates to findings relating to the need to develop renewable energy sources and promote energy sources that reduce the degradation of the environment.

	SB 16	Rubio [D]	Renewable Energy: Expedited Permitting
Requires the state Department of Fish and Game to collect a permit application fee from the owner or developer of an eligible renewable energy project to support the department's permitting and review of the project. Requires the Energy Commission to provides funds to the department from fees for projects funded under the ARRA. Relates to related incidental take permits. Authorizes the department to contract for the review necessary to issue an incidental take permit.

	SB 23	Simitian [D]	Energy: Renewable Energy Resources
Relates to notification requirements for a proposed energy facility project near a military installation, special use airspace or low-level flight path, an increase in the percentage of retail sales of electricity from eligible renewable resources by a specified date, and required related procedures and reporting by the Public Utilities Commission, the applicability of the Renewables Portfolio Standard Program and program enforcement procedures, and the integration of such energy resources into the grid.

	SB 35	Padilla [D]	Public Interest Energy Research & Development Program
Modifies the termination date of provisions requiring electrical corporations to identify a separate electrical rate component to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy, and research, development, and demonstration programs. Makes changes concerning regulatory procedures for implementing the Public Interest Energy Research Demonstration and Development Program and the use of certain moneys collected from electrical corporations.

	SB 44	Corbett [D]	Public Utilities: Gas Pipeline Response Standards
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to commence a process to establish compatible emergency response standards that owners or operators of commission-regulated gas pipeline facilities would be required to follow. Requires owners or operators of commission-regulated gas pipeline facilities to implement emergency response plans that are compatible with federal regulations concerning emergency plans.

	SB 454	Pavley [D]	Energy Efficiency Standards: Energy Commission.
Subjects a contractors licensee to discipline for the failure to comply with specified energy efficiency standards under the state Code of Regulations. Requires the Contractors' State License Board to submit a report to the Legislature with regard to any civil penalties assessed against a licensee or unlicensed person for a violation of those standards. Authorizes the Energy Commission to bring an action under the unfair competition laws to enforce any statute or regulation. Relates to utility rebates.

	SB 489	Wolk [D]	Electricity: Net Energy Metering
Relates to net energy metering. Revises the definition of an eligible customer-generator to require that a generating facility be an eligible renewable energy resource and that it have a generating capacity of not more that 1.5 megawatts. Repeals a pilot program to provide energy net metering for eligible biogas digester customer-generators.

	SB 570	Rubio [D]	San Joaquin Valley Unified Pollution Control District
Extends the operation of provisions of existing law that requires the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to develop and administer, in consultation with a State Air Resources Board, a voluntary program to remove high polluter vehicles within the district by exchanging high polluter vehicles in the district for donated vehicles.

	SB 605	Berryhill T [R]	Vehicles: Implements of Husbandry
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law which regulates implements of husbandry and defines an implement of husbandry as a vehicle that is used exclusively in the conduct of agricultural operations, with certain exceptions.

	SB 672	Fuller [R]	Electricity: Rates: Interregional Parity
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require interregional parity in electrical rates.

	SB 673	Fuller [R]	Energy: Planning and Forecasting
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prepare an integrated energy policy report every 2 years.

	SB 679	Pavley [D]	Energy: Conservation Projects: Financial Assistance
Appropriates any unencumbered balance that was appropriated to the authority to the Energy Conservation Assistance Account be expended by the commission for the purposes of providing low-interest energy efficiency revolving loans to local governments and public institutions.

	SB 682	Calderon [R]	Energy: Clean Distributed Generation Units
Requires the PUC to require an electrical corporation to purchase excess electricity from a customer of an electrical corporation that uses a microturbine or a fuel cell meeting specified requirements that runs off of waste or stranded gas associated with the extraction of oil or gas and has a time-of-use meter capable of registering the flow of electricity in 2 directions.

	SB 771	Kehoe [D]	Renewable Energy Resources
Includes as eligible electricity generating systems that may receive incentives pursuant to the Emerging Renewable Resources Account, continuous clean renewable energy resources, as defined, that utilize waste gases from landfills, digesters, or wastewater treatment facilities to generate electricity. Establishes an exception for fuel cells and continuous clean renewable energy resources that utilize waste gases from landfills, digesters, or wastewater treatment facilities to generate electricity.

	SB 790	Leno [D]	Electricity: Community Choice Aggregation
Requires the Public Utility Commission to institute a rulemaking proceeding to consider and adopt a code of conduct, associated rules, and enforcement procedures, to govern the conduct of electrical corporations relative to community choice aggregation programs and to implement the code of conduct, associated rules, and enforcement procedures that ensure that an electrical corporation does not market against a community choice. Expands the entities permitted to undertake such aggregation.

	SB 836	Padilla [D]	Renewable Energy Resources: Cost Reporting
Relates to the Public Utilities Commission and the renewables portfolio standard program (RPS program). Requires the commission to semiannually report to the Legislature on the costs incurred by electrical corporations for contracts approved by the commission pursuant to the RPS program.

	SB 843	Wolk [D]	Local Government Renewable Energy Program
Amends existing law that states the local government renewable energy self-generation program authorizes a local government to receive a bill credit to be applied to a designated benefiting account for electricity exported to the electrical grid by an eligible renewable generating facility. Authorizes the local government or campus to designate the benefiting account. Relates to a time-of-use rate schedule, a single bundled rate, or fixed rates, and different tiers of usage. Limits generating capacity.

	SB 854	Blakeslee [R]	Renewable Energy Resources
Requires an obligated party to procure an amount of renewable energy credits sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the party's renewable portfolios standard procurement requirements. Establishes standards for 6 different compliance intervals, to be calculated using a specified formula. Requires the Energy Commission to implement an standard verification accounting system. Requires related annual reports to the Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission. Requires a program review.

	SB 2 a	Simitian [D]	Energy: Renewable Energy Resources
Requires notification to the Department of Defense of a proposed energy facility project. Increases the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources by specified dates. Specifies the duties of the Public Utility Commission related to energy sales by electric corporations. Relates to the renewables portfolio standards requirements, and utility costs in meeting the requirements. Requires a standards requirement verification system. Relates to related requirements of the ISO.

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