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Bill	Public utilities: intrastate natural gas pipeline safety.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, as defined. 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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 216	California SB 216 (20112012)	bill	Public utilities: intrastate natural gas pipeline safety.	enacted	Yee	8	26	8	2011-02-09	2011-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/54594944-2f90-4713-8b5b-dbae7885e537	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB216	619d0fd8bb990069490a09c9f71055cccd620c9d4984b3fc4122c5758f047aea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 216 (20112012) — Public utilities: intrastate natural gas pipeline safety.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations, as defined. 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.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB216 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 216 Yee Senate Third Reading By AMMIANO — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB216 Yee Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Yee — primary (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Ma — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-10 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2011-02-17 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2011-03-15 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2011-04-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 542.) (April 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-05-02 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-05-20 Set for hearing May 26.
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 1114.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1267.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-16 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2011-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-17 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2697.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2236.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
• 2011-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 521, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54594944-2f90-4713-8b5b-dbae7885e537. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).