Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data.
Existing law prohibits, except as specified, an electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a 3rd party a consumer's electric or gas usage that is made available as a part of an advanced metering infrastructure, including the name, account number, and residence of the customer (data) . Existing law requires the electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, to use reasonable security procedures and practices to provide a consumer's unencrypted data from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
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20132014
AB 1274
California AB 1274 (20132014)
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Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data.
California AB 1274 (20132014) — Privacy: customer electrical or natural gas usage data.
Existing law prohibits, except as specified, an electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a 3rd party a consumer's electric or gas usage that is made available as a part of an advanced metering infrastructure, including the name, account number, and residence of the customer (data) . Existing law requires the electrical corporation or gas corporation, and a local publicly owned utility, to use reasonable security procedures and practices to provide a consumer's unencrypted data from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Be referred to Committee on Judiciary. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Bradford — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
2013-04-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2013-04-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2013-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
2013-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
2013-04-25 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage
2013-05-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2013-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2013-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1337.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2013-05-23 Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and JUD. referral-committee
2013-06-11 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2013-06-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2013-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2013-07-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2013-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2093.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2013-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2915.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2013-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2013-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 597, Statutes of 2013.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad04448b-67b4-4347-baf9-7c04902782d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).