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Bill	Distributed generation: small wind energy systems.	The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires that an electrical corporation, as defined, procure a specified minimum percentage of electricity generated by eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, in any given year as a specified percentage of total kilowatthours sold to retail end-use customers each calendar year (renewables portfolio standard) , subject to specified limits. The renewables portfolio standard requires each retail seller to increase its total procurement of eligible renewable energy resources by at least an additional 1% of retail sales per year so that 20% of its retail sales are procured from eligible renewable energy resources no later than December 31, 2010.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 45	California AB 45 (20092010)	bill	Distributed generation: small wind energy systems.	enacted	Blakeslee	9	26	7	2008-12-01	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/77b7aedd-6e31-4333-b67e-18ab4e825a20	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB45	afd6abd7d3d29caea97f9174d6df76fc274c73d0cb96bfbb0eba6c5f1148505b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 45 (20092010) — Distributed generation: small wind energy systems.

The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires that an electrical corporation, as defined, procure a specified minimum percentage of electricity generated by eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, in any given year as a specified percentage of total kilowatthours sold to retail end-use customers each calendar year (renewables portfolio standard) , subject to specified limits. The renewables portfolio standard requires each retail seller to increase its total procurement of eligible renewable energy resources by at least an additional 1% of retail sales per year so that 20% of its retail sales are procured from eligible renewable energy resources no later than December 31, 2010.

Version chain

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

1. 12/01/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB45 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB45 Blakeslee By Simitian — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 45 BLAKESLEE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 45 BLAKESLEE Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blakeslee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-12-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2008-12-02 From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2009-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-28 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1761.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-04 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and EQ. referral-committee
• 2009-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-22 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 17). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-23 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-23 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (July 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-23 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (August 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 2207.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3152.)
• 2009-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3181.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 404, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77b7aedd-6e31-4333-b67e-18ab4e825a20. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).