republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2313.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Renewable natural gas: monetary incentive program for biomethane projects: pipeline infrastructure."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to adopt, by rule or order, (1) standards for biomethane that specify the concentrations of constituents of concern that are reasonably necessary to protect public health and ensure pipeline integrity and safety, as specified, and (2) requirements for monitoring, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping relative to those constituents of concern. Existing law requires the commission to require gas corporation tariffs to condition access to common carrier pipelines on the applicable customer meeting those standards and requirements. Existing law requires the commission to adopt policies and programs that promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane, as defined, and requires that these policies and programs facilitate the development of a variety of sources of in-state biomethane. The commission has adopted two decisions implementing these requirements, the 2nd of which adopted a 5-year monetary incentive program effective June 11, 2015, for biomethane projects pursuant to which a qualifying project is entitled to a one-time payment of 50% of the interconnection costs incurred by the biomethane producer, up to a total payment of $1,500,000. Total cost of the monetary incentive program for biomethane projects is limited to $40,000,000 over the 5-year life of the program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2313"
citation: "California AB 2313 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Renewable natural gas: monetary incentive program for biomethane projects: pipeline infrastructure."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6622979-4043-40eb-a43d-436e090013aa"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313"
source_hash: "72bfb2374d116affe1190745f79529acf6f49c22ba5b34ec7d65465ccaa538f6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2313 (20152016) — Renewable natural gas: monetary incentive program for biomethane projects: pipeline infrastructure.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to adopt, by rule or order, (1) standards for biomethane that specify the concentrations of constituents of concern that are reasonably necessary to protect public health and ensure pipeline integrity and safety, as specified, and (2) requirements for monitoring, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping relative to those constituents of concern. Existing law requires the commission to require gas corporation tariffs to condition access to common carrier pipelines on the applicable customer meeting those standards and requirements. Existing law requires the commission to adopt policies and programs that promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane, as defined, and requires that these policies and programs facilitate the development of a variety of sources of in-state biomethane. The commission has adopted two decisions implementing these requirements, the 2nd of which adopted a 5-year monetary incentive program effective June 11, 2015, for biomethane projects pursuant to which a qualifying project is entitled to a one-time payment of 50% of the interconnection costs incurred by the biomethane producer, up to a total payment of $1,500,000. Total cost of the monetary incentive program for biomethane projects is limited to $40,000,000 over the 5-year life of the program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231399INT)
2. **03/16/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231398AMD)
3. **04/26/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231397AMD)
4. **06/14/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231396AMD)
5. **08/02/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231395AMD)
6. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231394AMD)
7. **08/19/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231393AMD)
8. **09/24/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231391CHP)
9. **AB2313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313)
10. **08/31/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2313&version=20150AB231392ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2313 Williams By Hertzberg — **37–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2313 WILLIAMS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–19** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 2313 WILLIAMS Assembly Third Reading — **57–20** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Commerce] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Williams — primary (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-31** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on U. & C. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 31). Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (April 20). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-26** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 20. Page 4896.) `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`
- **2016-06-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-08-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-08** Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 2. Page 5311.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 19. Page 6449.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 571, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6622979-4043-40eb-a43d-436e090013aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).