--- type: "Bill" title: "Local publicly owned electric utilities: integrated resource planning: transportation electrification." description: "Existing law requires that the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility with an annual electrical demand exceeding 700 gigawatthours adopt an integrated resource plan and a process for updating the plan at least once every 5 years to ensure the utility achieves specified objectives. Existing law requires that the local publicly owned electric utility's integrated resource plan address procurement for, among other things, transportation electrification." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20212022" identifier: "SB 437" citation: "California SB 437 (20212022)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Local publicly owned electric utilities: integrated resource planning: transportation electrification."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Wieckowski"] version_count: 7 action_count: 28 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2021-02-16" last_action: "2021-07-23" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87551fe9-015f-482f-ab29-573f953e5b71" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437" source_hash: "bb50eb4b27cf293cd89e4ad984cda7be16762acedcde48a917e6e54f7e9f1cba" 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 437 (20212022) — Local publicly owned electric utilities: integrated resource planning: transportation electrification. Existing law requires that the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility with an annual electrical demand exceeding 700 gigawatthours adopt an integrated resource plan and a process for updating the plan at least once every 5 years to ensure the utility achieves specified objectives. Existing law requires that the local publicly owned electric utility's integrated resource plan address procurement for, among other things, transportation electrification. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/16/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437&version=20210SB43799INT) 2. **02/25/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437&version=20210SB43798AMD) 3. **04/08/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437&version=20210SB43797AMD) 4. **04/26/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437&version=20210SB43796AMD) 5. **07/23/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437&version=20210SB43794CHP) 6. **SB437** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437) 7. **07/14/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB437&version=20210SB43795ENR) ## Votes - Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Transportation] — **11–3** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower - SB 437 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By HOLDEN — **59–12** (pass) · lower - Do pass. — **10–2** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading — **29–9** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Wieckowski — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2021-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2021-02-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19. - **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with. - **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.) - **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.) - **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2021-02-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2021-03-11** Re-referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and TRANS. `referral-committee` - **2021-03-26** Set for hearing April 19. - **2021-04-08** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2021-04-22** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 11. Noes 3. Page 842.) (April 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2021-04-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2021-04-26** Withdrawn from committee. - **2021-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2021-04-30** Set for hearing May 10. - **2021-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2021-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2021-05-13** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 1092.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2021-05-13** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2021-05-20** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee` - **2021-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2021-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2021-07-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 12. Page 2313.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2021-07-12** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. - **2021-07-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m. - **2021-07-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2021-07-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 138, Statutes of 2021. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87551fe9-015f-482f-ab29-573f953e5b71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).