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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electricity: procurement."
description: "The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and accept, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified procedures, considerations, and objectives. The act requires that electrical corporations' proposed procurement plans include certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporations will first meet their unmet needs through all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1937"
citation: "California AB 1937 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electricity: procurement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gomez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2016-02-12"
last_action: "2016-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d87ee0e-552e-43a4-83a1-0654fc25cee3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937"
source_hash: "0e7df3fa820733cdafcd51ec65e48fa137a7fbecd4ccc1dc3d96b3c64344cbe8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1937 (20152016) — Electricity: procurement.
The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and accept, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified procedures, considerations, and objectives. The act requires that electrical corporations' proposed procurement plans include certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporations will first meet their unmet needs through all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/12/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193799INT)
2. **04/04/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193798AMD)
3. **04/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193797AMD)
4. **06/14/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193796AMD)
5. **06/27/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193795AMD)
6. **08/11/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193794AMD)
7. **08/17/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193793AMD)
8. **09/26/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193791CHP)
9. **AB1937** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937)
10. **08/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937&version=20150AB193792ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1937 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **53–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — **7–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1937 Gomez By Pavley — **26–13** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — **10–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 1937 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — **51–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–6** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gomez — primary (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Williams — author (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-03-28** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 18). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 4899.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 21). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-27** Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5253.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 6279.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2016-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 664, Statutes of 2016.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d87ee0e-552e-43a4-83a1-0654fc25cee3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).