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Bill	Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant, composed of reactor Units 1 and 2, is operated by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in the County of San Luis Obispo. Existing law requires the commission to convene, or continue, until August 26, 2025, an independent peer review panel to conduct an independent review of enhanced seismic studies and surveys of the Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant, including the surrounding areas of the facility and areas of nuclear waste storage. The Nuclear Facility Decommissioning Act of 1985 requires each electrical corporation owning or operating nuclear facilities to establish an externally managed, segregated fund for payment of decommissioning costs of those facilities, establishes requirements for collection of moneys for decommisioning costs in the utility's rates and charges, and requires that the expenses associated with decommissioning of nuclear facilities be paid from those funds. Pursuant to the act, the commission ordered 2 nuclear decommissioning funds be established for the Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 968	California SB 968 (20152016)	bill appropriation	Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant.	enacted	Monning	10	29	8	2016-02-08	2016-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/afbac9f6-f137-493e-9a38-98cc3a7c2b12	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB968	f9cb8c794c3932ed686e44d02d0310591e283c531fd6f6811417951b14b9603a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 968 (20152016) — Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant, composed of reactor Units 1 and 2, is operated by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in the County of San Luis Obispo. Existing law requires the commission to convene, or continue, until August 26, 2025, an independent peer review panel to conduct an independent review of enhanced seismic studies and surveys of the Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant, including the surrounding areas of the facility and areas of nuclear waste storage. The Nuclear Facility Decommissioning Act of 1985 requires each electrical corporation owning or operating nuclear facilities to establish an externally managed, segregated fund for payment of decommissioning costs of those facilities, establishes requirements for collection of moneys for decommisioning costs in the utility's rates and charges, and requires that the expenses associated with decommissioning of nuclear facilities be paid from those funds. Pursuant to the act, the commission ordered 2 nuclear decommissioning funds be established for the Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 powerplant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/31/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/26/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB968 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB968 Monning Urgency Clause Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 968 Monning Third Reading Urgency By ACHADJIAN — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)
• Achadjian — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-09 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2016-03-09 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2016-03-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3310.) (March 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-03-31 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-22 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2016-05-02 May 2 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-05-20 Set for hearing May 27.
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4000.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4095.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2016-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-08-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6241.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-26 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2016-08-26 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5446.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-01 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 674, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/afbac9f6-f137-493e-9a38-98cc3a7c2b12. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).