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type: "Bill"
title: "Electrical service: provider of last resort."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, a public utility has a duty to serve, including furnishing and maintaining adequate, efficient, just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities as are necessary to promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons and the public."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 520"
citation: "California SB 520 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electrical service: provider of last resort."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36edac86-1bea-42c9-a1ca-ecb8aa57f60c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520"
source_hash: "a0147b90ac2a6aa80a6e4c86b2026f8dcbec49303594231e318b4194c223a04f"
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 SB 520 (20192020) — Electrical service: provider of last resort.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, a public utility has a duty to serve, including furnishing and maintaining adequate, efficient, just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities as are necessary to promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons and the public.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520&version=20190SB52099INT)
2. **04/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520&version=20190SB52098AMD)
3. **06/27/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520&version=20190SB52097AMD)
4. **08/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520&version=20190SB52096AMD)
5. **09/03/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520&version=20190SB52095AMD)
6. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520&version=20190SB52093CHP)
7. **SB520** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520)
8. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB520&version=20190SB52094ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB520 Hertzberg Concurrence — **332** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **120** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **50** (pass) · upper
- SB 520 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Quirk — **693** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **360** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hertzberg — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-21** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2019-04-03** April 10 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-04-04** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2019-04-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 842.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2019-05-01** May 6 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-05-03** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2019-05-13** May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-05-14** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1102.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1187.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-03** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** July 3 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-08-12** (Received at desk July 17 pursuant to JR 61(a)(10)).
- **2019-08-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-21** August 21 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 3. Page 3337.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 2851.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 408, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36edac86-1bea-42c9-a1ca-ecb8aa57f60c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).