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Bill	Electrical corporations and gas corporations: rates and charges.	(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law requires the commission to designate a baseline quantity of electricity and gas necessary for a significant portion of the reasonable energy needs of the average residential customer and to establish a higher energy allowance above the baseline for residential customers dependent on life-support equipment. For these purposes, "baseline quantity" is defined as a quantity of electricity or gas allocated by the commission for residential customers based on from 50% to 60% of average residential consumption of these commodities, except that, for residential gas customers and for all-electric residential customers, the baseline quantity is required to be established at from 60% to 70% of average residential consumption during the winter heating season.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 711	California SB 711 (20172018)	bill	Electrical corporations and gas corporations: rates and charges.	enacted	Hill	9	36	5	2017-02-17	2017-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/68dcd9a2-4620-43d0-b8fa-f1d179e73f22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB711	7c418b6184ff8d2a195ffc61493ea1e2d2f775b5ce011387148e746505af0cdc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 711 (20172018) — Electrical corporations and gas corporations: rates and charges.

(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law requires the commission to designate a baseline quantity of electricity and gas necessary for a significant portion of the reasonable energy needs of the average residential customer and to establish a higher energy allowance above the baseline for residential customers dependent on life-support equipment. For these purposes, "baseline quantity" is defined as a quantity of electricity or gas allocated by the commission for residential customers based on from 50% to 60% of average residential consumption of these commodities, except that, for residential gas customers and for all-electric residential customers, the baseline quantity is required to be established at from 60% to 70% of average residential consumption during the winter heating season.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/09/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/12/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/10/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/03/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB711 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 711 Hill Senate Third Reading By PATTERSON — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB711 Hill Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hill — 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 Coms. on GOV. & F. and T. & H. referral-committee
• 2017-03-17 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2017-03-21 April 5 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-03-22 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2017-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-13 April 19 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-04-17 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 Set for hearing April 24 in E., U. & C. pending receipt.
• 2017-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 806.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2017-05-03 May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-09 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
• 2017-05-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1081.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1137.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2017-06-12 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
• 2017-06-21 June 21 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-07-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-19 July 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3251.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2929.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 467, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68dcd9a2-4620-43d0-b8fa-f1d179e73f22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).