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type: "Bill"
title: "Small business customers: demand-side energy management programs."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Pursuant to existing law, the commission supervises various energy efficiency and other demand-side energy management programs administered by electrical corporations, gas corporations, and 3rd party administrators, the expenses for which are collected by electrical corporations and gas corporations from their ratepayers. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that the Internet Web site for the Energy Upgrade California program be revised to include information related to demand-side management programs for small business customers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2831"
citation: "California AB 2831 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Small business customers: demand-side energy management programs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Limón"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/633440a5-7259-4b00-bc25-39ed84c43e49"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831"
source_hash: "0d7f2f640a12210437ca739554d6d3027c3602c10ec2005187ff955cebb159e9"
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 2831 (20172018) — Small business customers: demand-side energy management programs.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Pursuant to existing law, the commission supervises various energy efficiency and other demand-side energy management programs administered by electrical corporations, gas corporations, and 3rd party administrators, the expenses for which are collected by electrical corporations and gas corporations from their ratepayers. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that the Internet Web site for the Energy Upgrade California program be revised to include information related to demand-side management programs for small business customers.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831&version=20170AB283199INT)
2. **03/22/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831&version=20170AB283198AMD)
3. **04/03/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831&version=20170AB283197AMD)
4. **04/25/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831&version=20170AB283196AMD)
5. **09/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831&version=20170AB283194CHP)
6. **AB2831** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831)
7. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2831&version=20170AB283195ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **110** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2831 Limón By Hueso — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **160** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **140** (pass) · lower
- AB 2831 LIMÓN Assembly Third Reading — **780** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Limón — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2018-03-22** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-25** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5496.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2018-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5940.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 590, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/633440a5-7259-4b00-bc25-39ed84c43e49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).