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Bill	Electricity: procurement.	The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and accept, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified procedures, considerations, and objectives. The act requires that electrical corporations' proposed procurement plans include certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporations will first meet their unmet needs through all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1937	California AB 1937 (20152016)	bill	Electricity: procurement.	enacted	Gomez	10	33	9	2016-02-12	2016-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6d87ee0e-552e-43a4-83a1-0654fc25cee3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1937	0e7df3fa820733cdafcd51ec65e48fa137a7fbecd4ccc1dc3d96b3c64344cbe8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1937 (20152016) — Electricity: procurement.

The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and accept, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified procedures, considerations, and objectives. The act requires that electrical corporations' proposed procurement plans include certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporations will first meet their unmet needs through all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/11/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/17/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/26/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1937 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/29/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1937 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 7–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1937 Gomez By Pavley — 26–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 10–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 1937 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — 51–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gomez — primary (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Williams — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-28 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-04 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
• 2016-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2016-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 18). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 4899.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2016-06-14 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-27 Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5253.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 6279.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 664, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d87ee0e-552e-43a4-83a1-0654fc25cee3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).