republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-2227.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local publicly owned electric utilities: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: reporting."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing board. Existing law requires a local publicly owned electric utility to report various matter to its consumers and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) relative to energy efficiency, renewable energy resources, the California Solar Initiative, and energy source content."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2227"
citation: "California AB 2227 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local publicly owned electric utilities: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: reporting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/863c8098-b919-4dde-97ed-11f2d0560858"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227"
source_hash: "b0d1bc2f4bd31b823f6c6ba9f25fe75b542c47b9dc2cbe936108e3d1d4c8c9ca"
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 2227 (20112012) — Local publicly owned electric utilities: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: reporting.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing board. Existing law requires a local publicly owned electric utility to report various matter to its consumers and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) relative to energy efficiency, renewable energy resources, the California Solar Initiative, and energy source content.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227&version=20110AB222799INT)
2. **04/24/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227&version=20110AB222798AMD)
3. **05/15/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227&version=20110AB222797AMD)
4. **06/12/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227&version=20110AB222796AMD)
5. **08/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227&version=20110AB222795AMD)
6. **09/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227&version=20110AB222793CHP)
7. **AB2227** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227)
8. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2227&version=20110AB222794ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #16 AB2227 Bradford By Rubio — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2227 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2227 BRADFORD Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-22** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 7). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4927.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-31** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-12** 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. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-06-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-15** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4782.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 6375.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:25 a.m.
- **2012-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/863c8098-b919-4dde-97ed-11f2d0560858`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).