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Bill	Local government renewable energy self-generation program.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission is vested with regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law authorizes a local governmental entity, except a joint powers authority, to receive a bill credit to a designated benefiting account, for electricity exported to the electrical grid by an eligible renewable generating facility and requires the commission to adopt a rate tariff for the benefiting account.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1773	California AB 1773 (20152016)	bill	Local government renewable energy self-generation program.	enacted	Obernolte	6	23	6	2016-02-03	2016-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6d7ad1e8-7af1-4d47-b88c-db1272210a9e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1773	1b16f00b347523e31027491bf18e2bc6eda17c279f49dfcb865ee37efd4cd351	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1773 (20152016) — Local government renewable energy self-generation program.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission is vested with regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law authorizes a local governmental entity, except a joint powers authority, to receive a bill credit to a designated benefiting account, for electricity exported to the electrical grid by an eligible renewable generating facility and requires the commission to adopt a rate tariff for the benefiting account.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/26/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1773 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1773 Obernolte By Pavley — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1773 OBERNOLTE Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Obernolte — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 6). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4786.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2016-06-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5131.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 659, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d7ad1e8-7af1-4d47-b88c-db1272210a9e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).