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Bill	Electricity: direct transactions.	The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to authorize and facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and retail end-use customers, but suspends direct transactions except as expressly authorized. Existing law expressly requires the commission to authorize direct transactions for nonresidential end-use customers, subject to an annual maximum allowable total kilowatthour limit established, as specified, for each electrical corporation, to be achieved following a now completed 3-to 5-year phase-in period.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 237	California SB 237 (20172018)	bill	Electricity: direct transactions.	enacted	Hertzberg	10	41	4	2017-02-06	2018-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/002842ac-4640-41c1-9f66-b52c3e395564	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB237	124af9c4a6f03854f83c1a9b5d320f6dfa3bbfc3501654467b24004c3a016a9e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 237 (20172018) — Electricity: direct transactions.

The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to authorize and facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and retail end-use customers, but suspends direct transactions except as expressly authorized. Existing law expressly requires the commission to authorize direct transactions for nonresidential end-use customers, subject to an annual maximum allowable total kilowatthour limit established, as specified, for each electrical corporation, to be achieved following a now completed 3-to 5-year phase-in period.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/13/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/21/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB237 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 237 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By BURKE — 48–17 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB237 Hertzberg Concurrence — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
• 2017-02-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-01 Set for hearing March 21.
• 2017-03-22 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 429.) (March 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 545.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-06-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-03 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bonta.
• 2017-07-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-08 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-11 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-14 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2018-06-18 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-08 August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2018-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 48. Noes 17. Page 6981.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2018-08-31 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d) . (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 6076.) Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-31 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 6198.) committee-passage
• 2018-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 6146.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 600, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/002842ac-4640-41c1-9f66-b52c3e395564. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).