---
type: "Bill"
title: "Load-serving entities: integrated resource plans."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the commission to adopt a process for each load-serving entity, defined as including electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to file an integrated resource plan and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan to ensure that load-serving entities accomplish specified objectives. Existing law requires each load-serving entity to prepare and file an integrated resource plan consistent with those objectives on a time schedule directed by the commission and subject to commission review."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 618"
citation: "California SB 618 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Load-serving entities: integrated resource plans."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d03dbb9f-f3d2-49c7-905a-3b3d116fcf57"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618"
source_hash: "24dc90bec88d268302d27dfac09795485d205bc8cdbedaa0f71eaddfd7f204b9"
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 SB 618 (20172018) — Load-serving entities: integrated resource plans.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the commission to adopt a process for each load-serving entity, defined as including electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to file an integrated resource plan and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan to ensure that load-serving entities accomplish specified objectives. Existing law requires each load-serving entity to prepare and file an integrated resource plan consistent with those objectives on a time schedule directed by the commission and subject to commission review.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618&version=20170SB61899INT)
2. **04/24/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618&version=20170SB61898AMD)
3. **05/09/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618&version=20170SB61897AMD)
4. **07/18/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618&version=20170SB61896AMD)
5. **08/31/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618&version=20170SB61895AMD)
6. **10/02/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618&version=20170SB61893CHP)
7. **SB618** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618)
8. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB618&version=20170SB61894ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent Calendar SB618 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 618 Bradford Senate Third Reading By GARCIA, E. — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Set for hearing April 4.
- **2017-04-05** April 4 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-04-06** Set for hearing April 19 in EQ. pending receipt.
- **2017-04-13** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2017-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 728.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on EQ. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 784.) (April 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2017-05-03** May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-05-04** Set for hearing May 15.
- **2017-05-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-15** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1136.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-05** Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-17** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-07-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-23** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-28** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
- **2017-08-28** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-08-31** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3036.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-09-12** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-09-14** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2904.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 431, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d03dbb9f-f3d2-49c7-905a-3b3d116fcf57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).