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Bill	Electricity: energy crisis litigation.	Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires the Attorney General to represent the Department of Finance and to succeed to all rights, claims, powers, and entitlements of the Electricity Oversight Board in any litigation or settlement to obtain ratepayer recovery for the effects of the 2000–02 energy crisis. Existing law additionally prohibits the Attorney General from expending the proceeds of any settlements of those claims, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1533	California SB 1533 (20112012)	bill	Electricity: energy crisis litigation.	enacted	Padilla	6	24	5	2012-02-24	2012-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/223b13fd-8fd2-4132-9d86-a23dae5cc9db	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1533	d97a2bfa966efe74e17e06726ac2e85b5b327a1e63f8c45159d8095ddfc772d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1533 (20112012) — Electricity: energy crisis litigation.

Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires the Attorney General to represent the Department of Finance and to succeed to all rights, claims, powers, and entitlements of the Electricity Oversight Board in any litigation or settlement to obtain ratepayer recovery for the effects of the 2000–02 energy crisis. Existing law additionally prohibits the Attorney General from expending the proceeds of any settlements of those claims, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1533 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1533 Padilla Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2012-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3304.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-04 Set for hearing May 14.
• 2012-05-15 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3614.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-21 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 5409.)
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5971.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-16 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2012-08-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-08-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-08-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 226, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/223b13fd-8fd2-4132-9d86-a23dae5cc9db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).