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type: "Bill"
title: "Gas corporations: rate recovery and expenditure: intrastate pipeline safety."
description: "(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, as defined. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 56"
citation: "California AB 56 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gas corporations: rate recovery and expenditure: intrastate pipeline safety."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 38
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2010-12-06"
last_action: "2011-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/741ed7ed-83f9-49ff-8c09-033df1453eed"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56"
source_hash: "fce759d201651c7e7173afbbb5d47beed61da116292486ff67acd763404920c0"
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 56 (20112012) — Gas corporations: rate recovery and expenditure: intrastate pipeline safety.
(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, as defined. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **12/06/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5699INT)
2. **02/23/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5698AMD)
3. **03/16/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5697AMD)
4. **05/18/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5696AMD)
5. **05/27/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5695AMD)
6. **06/29/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5694AMD)
7. **07/13/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5693AMD)
8. **08/30/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5692AMD)
9. **09/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5691AMD)
10. **09/07/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5690AMD)
11. **10/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5688CHP)
12. **AB56** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56)
13. **09/20/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB56&version=20110AB5689ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 56 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **71–7** (pass) · lower
- AB 56 HILL Assembly Third Reading — **54–21** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Supp 1 AB56 Hill By Corbett — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hill — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Corbett — coauthor (person)
- Dickinson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2010-12-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-12-07** From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
- **2011-01-27** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-23** 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`
- **2011-02-24** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** 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`
- **2011-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 21. Page 1784.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-14** Measure version as amended on May 27 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-29** 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`
- **2011-07-12** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-15** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-02** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-06** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-09-07** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 23. Noes 2. Page 2338.)
- **2011-09-08** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2011-09-08** (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2392.)
- **2011-09-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2422.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 7. Page 3206.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 519, Statutes of 2011.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/741ed7ed-83f9-49ff-8c09-033df1453eed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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