Energy: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the PUC to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers, as defined, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, so that the total kilowatthours of those products sold to their retail end-use customers achieve 25% of retail sales by December 31, 2016, 33% by December 31, 2020, 40% by December 31, 2024, 45% by December 31, 2027, and 50% by December 31, 2030. The program additionally requires each local publicly owned electric utility to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources to achieve the procurement requirements established by the program. Existing law requires local publicly owned electric utilities to adopt procurement requirements, but authorizes them to adopt conditions allowing for delaying timely compliance and cost limitations for procurement expenditures, as specified.
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SB 1110
California SB 1110 (20172018)
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Energy: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities.
California SB 1110 (20172018) — Energy: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the PUC to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers, as defined, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, so that the total kilowatthours of those products sold to their retail end-use customers achieve 25% of retail sales by December 31, 2016, 33% by December 31, 2020, 40% by December 31, 2024, 45% by December 31, 2027, and 50% by December 31, 2030. The program additionally requires each local publicly owned electric utility to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources to achieve the procurement requirements established by the program. Existing law requires local publicly owned electric utilities to adopt procurement requirements, but authorizes them to adopt conditions allowing for delaying timely compliance and cost limitations for procurement expenditures, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB1110 Bradford Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
SB 1110 Bradford Senate Third Reading By DAHLE — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Bradford — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2018-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
2018-02-22 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
2018-03-12 Set for hearing April 3.
2018-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2018-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 4514.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2018-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
2018-05-04 Set for hearing May 14.
2018-05-14 May 14 hearing postponed by committee.
2018-05-15 Set for hearing May 22.
2018-05-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2018-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4336.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2018-06-11 Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
2018-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2018-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
2018-08-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2018-08-08 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-16 From consent calendar.
2018-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
2018-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2018-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
2018-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6586.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2018-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5862.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2018-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 605, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/067fcceb-3046-496b-8dc6-b9a07f634765. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).