republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-700.md

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Bill	Self-generation incentive program.	Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity, as defined, to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems to be achieved by December 31, 2015, and December 31, 2020. If determined to be appropriate, the commission is required to adopt the procurement targets, by October 1, 2013, and to reevaluate the determinations not less than once every 3 years. Existing law excludes an electrical corporation that has 60,000 or fewer customer accounts within California from these requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 700	California SB 700 (20172018)	bill	Self-generation incentive program.	enacted	Wiener	13	37	8	2017-02-17	2018-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/4388d6d6-2782-4b9b-9e78-a32cc7db2bae	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB700	1f486c28aec3d2b763728f0147b6b137b4459bbf5497551b94e68ccf31531efe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 700 (20172018) — Self-generation incentive program.

Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity, as defined, to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems to be achieved by December 31, 2015, and December 31, 2020. If determined to be appropriate, the commission is required to adopt the procurement targets, by October 1, 2013, and to reevaluate the determinations not less than once every 3 years. Existing law excludes an electrical corporation that has 60,000 or fewer customer accounts within California from these requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/02/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/26/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/20/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/27/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. SB700 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 700 Wiener Senate Third Reading By HOLDEN — 57–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 23–13 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB700 Wiener Concurrence — 25–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2017-04-06 April 18 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-04-07 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2017-04-17 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
• 2017-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 806.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1189.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 9 p.m.
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 1314.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-15 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-12 July 12 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-08 August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2018-08-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-21 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.
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 6768.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 6023.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 839, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4388d6d6-2782-4b9b-9e78-a32cc7db2bae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).