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Bill	Public utilities: natural gas pipelines: safety.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. The Public Utilities Act authorizes the commission to ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or services to be furnished, imposed, observed, and followed by specified public utilities, including gas corporations. 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. The Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011 designates the commission as the state authority responsible for regulating and enforcing intrastate gas pipeline transportation and pipeline facilities pursuant to federal law, including the development, submission, and administration of a state pipeline safety program certification for natural gas pipelines.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 578	California AB 578 (20112012)	bill	Public utilities: natural gas pipelines: safety.	enacted	Hill	8	29	9	2011-02-16	2012-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/8c35f470-dff5-4725-b838-6105a304814d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB578	9c99186da5b4746592bdf0958838712ed1f0938451a8e970886e748fa74d939f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 578 (20112012) — Public utilities: natural gas pipelines: safety.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. The Public Utilities Act authorizes the commission to ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or services to be furnished, imposed, observed, and followed by specified public utilities, including gas corporations. 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. The Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 2011 designates the commission as the state authority responsible for regulating and enforcing intrastate gas pipeline transportation and pipeline facilities pursuant to federal law, including the development, submission, and administration of a state pipeline safety program certification for natural gas pipelines.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/12/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/08/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/30/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/23/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB578 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 578 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–1 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 578 HILL Assembly Third Reading — 57–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB578 Hill By Corbett — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2012-01-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (January 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-12 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (January 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 19. Page 3624.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-05-08 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
• 2012-05-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4869.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2012-08-29 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6587.)
• 2012-08-29 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 6614.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
• 2012-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 462, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c35f470-dff5-4725-b838-6105a304814d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).