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Bill	Electricity: system reliability.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The Public Utilities Act authorizes the commission to ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or service to be furnished, imposed, observed, and followed by specified public utilities, including all electrical corporations. If the commission finds after a hearing that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of any public utility, or of the methods of manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage, or supply employed by the public utility, are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate, or insufficient, the act requires that the commission determine and, by order or rule, fix the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, service, or methods to be observed, furnished, constructed, enforced, or employed. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 66	California AB 66 (20132014)	bill	Electricity: system reliability.	enacted	Muratsuchi	10	29	8	2013-01-07	2013-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/59d30e3e-73d8-4e90-ac5a-718a309be0fe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB66	5dab5b62f6d6fc97027abb22d6e5a9f734ae7121cad20e5f4407763d7a0bf2b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 66 (20132014) — Electricity: system reliability.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The Public Utilities Act authorizes the commission to ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements, or service to be furnished, imposed, observed, and followed by specified public utilities, including all electrical corporations. If the commission finds after a hearing that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of any public utility, or of the methods of manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage, or supply employed by the public utility, are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate, or insufficient, the act requires that the commission determine and, by order or rule, fix the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, service, or methods to be observed, furnished, constructed, enforced, or employed. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 01/07/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/08/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/25/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/12/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/05/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB66 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 66 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB66 Muratsuchi By Hill — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 14–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 66 MURATSUCHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Muratsuchi — primary (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-01-08 From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
• 2013-03-14 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 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
• 2013-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2013-05-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-08 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 1660.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. 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 APPR. (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 APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-12 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2242.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3071.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 578, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59d30e3e-73d8-4e90-ac5a-718a309be0fe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).