republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2037.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electricity: air pollution."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The existing Public Utilities Act requires the PUC to review and approve, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. Existing law prohibits any load-serving entity, and any local publicly owned electric utility, from entering into a long-term financial commitment for baseload generation, unless that baseload generation complies with a greenhouse gases emission performance standard. Existing law requires the PUC, by February 1, 2007, through a rulemaking proceeding and in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and the State Air Resources Board (state board) , to establish a greenhouse gases emission performance standard for all baseload generation of load-serving entities. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, by June 30, 2007, at a duly noticed public hearing and in consultation with the PUC and the state board, to establish a greenhouse gases emission performance standard for all baseload generation of local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2037"
citation: "California AB 2037 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electricity: air pollution."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["V. Manuel Perez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2010-02-17"
last_action: "2010-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ac64621-0fc3-49ed-b4e7-808589be44ed"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2037"
source_hash: "535a2f01d08963185a18bef59efe3f54567670a1045cccff0e93466d20cc3e98"
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 2037 (20092010) — Electricity: air pollution.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The existing Public Utilities Act requires the PUC to review and approve, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. Existing law prohibits any load-serving entity, and any local publicly owned electric utility, from entering into a long-term financial commitment for baseload generation, unless that baseload generation complies with a greenhouse gases emission performance standard. Existing law requires the PUC, by February 1, 2007, through a rulemaking proceeding and in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and the State Air Resources Board (state board) , to establish a greenhouse gases emission performance standard for all baseload generation of load-serving entities. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, by June 30, 2007, at a duly noticed public hearing and in consultation with the PUC and the state board, to establish a greenhouse gases emission performance standard for all baseload generation of local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2037&version=20090AB203799INT)
2. **04/13/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2037&version=20090AB203798AMD)
3. **07/15/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2037&version=20090AB203797AMD)
4. **09/28/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2037&version=20090AB203795CHP)
5. **AB2037** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2037)
6. **08/24/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2037&version=20090AB203796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2037 PEREZ, V.M. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2037 V. Manuel Perez By Pavley — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2037 PEREZ, V.M. Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- V. Manuel Perez — primary (person)
- Salas — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-06** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-20** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 26. Page 5081.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on EQ. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 13. Page 4596.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-19** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 27. Page 6373.)
- **2010-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 6392.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2010-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 422, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ac64621-0fc3-49ed-b4e7-808589be44ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).