Independent System Operator: regional cooperation: study.
This measure would request that by February 28, 2023, the Independent System Operator, in consultation with the California balancing authorities, produce a report that summarizes recent relevant studies on the impacts of expanded regional cooperation on California, identifies key issues that will most effectively advance the state's energy and environmental goals, including any available studies that reflect the impact of regionalization on transmission costs and reliability for California ratepayers, includes relevant updates to specified transmission development and resource diversity estimates, and discusses regional transmission organizations in Colorado, Nevada, and other regional states, collaboration between states on energy policies to maximize consumer savings while respecting state policy autonomy, and engagement between neighboring states on the future of regional transmission organizations in the west.
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California Legislature
20212022
ACR 188
California ACR 188 (20212022)
concurrent resolution
Independent System Operator: regional cooperation: study.
California ACR 188 (20212022) — Independent System Operator: regional cooperation: study.
This measure would request that by February 28, 2023, the Independent System Operator, in consultation with the California balancing authorities, produce a report that summarizes recent relevant studies on the impacts of expanded regional cooperation on California, identifies key issues that will most effectively advance the state's energy and environmental goals, including any available studies that reflect the impact of regionalization on transmission costs and reliability for California ratepayers, includes relevant updates to specified transmission development and resource diversity estimates, and discusses regional transmission organizations in Colorado, Nevada, and other regional states, collaboration between states on energy policies to maximize consumer savings while respecting state policy autonomy, and engagement between neighboring states on the future of regional transmission organizations in the west.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
Be adopted as amended — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Holden — primary (person)
Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
Arambula — coauthor (person)
Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
Bennett — coauthor (person)
Bigelow — coauthor (person)
Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
Bloom — coauthor (person)
Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
Bryan — coauthor (person)
Calderon — coauthor (person)
Carrillo — coauthor (person)
Cervantes — coauthor (person)
Chen — coauthor (person)
Choi — coauthor (person)
Cooley — coauthor (person)
Cooper — coauthor (person)
Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
Cunningham — coauthor (person)
Daly — coauthor (person)
Davies — coauthor (person)
Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
Flora — coauthor (person)
Fong — coauthor (person)
Friedman — coauthor (person)
Gabriel — coauthor (person)
Gallagher — coauthor (person)
Gipson — coauthor (person)
Gray — coauthor (person)
Grayson — coauthor (person)
Haney — coauthor (person)
Irwin — coauthor (person)
Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
Kalra — coauthor (person)
Kiley — coauthor (person)
Lackey — coauthor (person)
Levine — coauthor (person)
Low — coauthor (person)
Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
Maienschein — coauthor (person)
Mathis — coauthor (person)
Mayes — coauthor (person)
McCarty — coauthor (person)
Medina — coauthor (person)
Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
Mullin — coauthor (person)
Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
Nazarian — coauthor (person)
Nguyen — coauthor (person)
Patterson — coauthor (person)
Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
Quirk — coauthor (person)
Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
Ramos — coauthor (person)
Rendon — coauthor (person)
Reyes — coauthor (person)
Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
Salas — coauthor (person)
Santiago — coauthor (person)
Seyarto — coauthor (person)
Smith — coauthor (person)
Stone — coauthor (person)
Ting — coauthor (person)
Valladares — coauthor (person)
Villapudua — coauthor (person)
Voepel — coauthor (person)
Waldron — coauthor (person)
Ward — coauthor (person)
Wicks — coauthor (person)
Wilson — coauthor (person)
Wood — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-05-02 Introduced. To print. introduction
2022-05-03 From printer.
2022-05-05 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
2022-05-19 From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-05-25 Coauthors revised.
2022-05-25 Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5037.) amendment-passage, passage
2022-05-26 In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
2022-06-23 From committee: Amend, and be adopted as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2022-06-27 Amended. Ordered to third reading.
2022-08-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2022-08-08 Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4685.) amendment-passage, passage
2022-08-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2022-08-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5807.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-08-19 Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
2022-08-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 138, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96bbe16c-4391-4549-a2c9-d6eaaced9af3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).