---
type: "Bill"
title: "Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data."
description: "Existing law prohibits, except as specified, an electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a 3rd party a consumer's electric or gas usage that is made available as a part of an advanced metering infrastructure, including the name, account number, and residence of the customer (data) . Existing law requires the electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, to use reasonable security procedures and practices to provide a consumer's unencrypted data from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1274"
citation: "California AB 1274 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad04448b-67b4-4347-baf9-7c04902782d0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274"
source_hash: "d3bbf3a15e225c1e35d234ab9877357c8d962984caa82fc3c2dff0a1e0483ec2"
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 1274 (20132014) — Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data.

Existing law prohibits, except as specified, an electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a 3rd party a consumer's electric or gas usage that is made available as a part of an advanced metering infrastructure, including the name, account number, and residence of the customer (data) . Existing law requires the electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, to use reasonable security procedures and practices to provide a consumer's unencrypted data from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274&version=20130AB127499INT)
2. **04/18/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274&version=20130AB127498AMD)
3. **06/11/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274&version=20130AB127497AMD)
4. **06/25/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274&version=20130AB127496AMD)
5. **07/08/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274&version=20130AB127495AMD)
6. **10/05/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274&version=20130AB127493CHP)
7. **AB1274** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274)
8. **09/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1274&version=20130AB127494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1274 BRADFORD Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1274 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1274 Bradford By Monning — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Be referred to Committee on Judiciary. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-25** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1337.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-11** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-24** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-07-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2093.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2915.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 597, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad04448b-67b4-4347-baf9-7c04902782d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).