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Bill	Energy: solar energy systems: funding.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Decisions of the PUC adopted the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the PUC, in implementing the California Solar Initiative, to ensure that the total cost over the duration of the program does not exceed $3,350,800,000, and imposes monetary limits on programs funded by charges collected from customers of the state's 3 largest electrical corporations and on programs adopted, implemented, and financed by charges collected by local publicly owned electrical utilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 585	California SB 585 (20112012)	bill	Energy: solar energy systems: funding.	enacted	Kehoe	8	26	8	2011-02-17	2011-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/ef526d90-31f9-4770-bd6e-72b75d33aacb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB585	e88db0e9e6ef7b8fc0ef824cccd98d645168e08e566768fa2416a94d52db5391	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 585 (20112012) — Energy: solar energy systems: funding.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Decisions of the PUC adopted the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the PUC, in implementing the California Solar Initiative, to ensure that the total cost over the duration of the program does not exceed $3,350,800,000, and imposes monetary limits on programs funded by charges collected from customers of the state's 3 largest electrical corporations and on programs adopted, implemented, and financed by charges collected by local publicly owned electrical utilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/18/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB585 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business (Urgency Clause) — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 585 Kehoe Third Reading Urgency By PEREA — 55–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kehoe — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2011-03-15 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2011-03-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 542.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-13 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 6. Noes 2. Page 1119.) (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. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1272.) 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 11. Noes 2.) (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
• 2011-07-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (July 13). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-18 Read third time and amended. (Page 2449.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-08-25 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 19. Page 2574.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2252.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
• 2011-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 312, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef526d90-31f9-4770-bd6e-72b75d33aacb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).