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Bill	Energy: net energy metering.	Existing law relative to private energy producers requires every electric utility, as defined, to make available to an eligible customer‑generator, as defined, a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering on a first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by eligible customer‑generators exceeds 5% of the electric utility's aggregate customer peak demand. Existing law requires the electric utility, upon an affirmative election by the eligible customer-generator to receive service pursuant to this contract or tariff, to either: (1) provide net surplus electricity compensation for any net surplus electricity generated in the 12-month period, or (2) allow the eligible customer-generator to apply the net surplus electricity as a credit for kilowatthours subsequently supplied by the electric utility to the surplus customer-generator.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 594	California SB 594 (20112012)	bill	Energy: net energy metering.	enacted	Wolk	11	37	9	2011-02-17	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/f9c6f5c5-817d-460c-8ce1-e6c80aee19c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB594	2eb61eb139da13766457aae81cf5e7c506f9daafc153a381e19690350a9aaa7b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 594 (20112012) — Energy: net energy metering.

Existing law relative to private energy producers requires every electric utility, as defined, to make available to an eligible customer‑generator, as defined, a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering on a first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by eligible customer‑generators exceeds 5% of the electric utility's aggregate customer peak demand. Existing law requires the electric utility, upon an affirmative election by the eligible customer-generator to receive service pursuant to this contract or tariff, to either: (1) provide net surplus electricity compensation for any net surplus electricity generated in the 12-month period, or (2) allow the eligible customer-generator to apply the net surplus electricity as a credit for kilowatthours subsequently supplied by the electric utility to the surplus customer-generator.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/01/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/15/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB594 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/10/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Be referred to Committee on Utilities and Commerce. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 594 Wolk Senate Third Reading By WILLIAMS — 58–10 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Supp 3 SB594 Wolk Concurrence — 21–12 (pass) · upper
• From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 23–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wolk — primary (person)
• Blakeslee — author (person)
• Gordon — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Valadao — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (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 HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-04-15 Set for hearing May 4.
• 2011-04-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 885.) (May 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-13 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2011-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 1086.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-25 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-25 Ordered to second reading.
• 2011-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 1216.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-03-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-05-07 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on U. & C. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-05-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-18 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 5751.)
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time and amended. (Page 6174.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 10. Page 6667.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2012-08-31 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 5054.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-08-31 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 5130.) committee-passage
• 2012-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 5016.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 610, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9c6f5c5-817d-460c-8ce1-e6c80aee19c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).