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Bill	Electricity: electrical transmission facilities.	Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The commission, through a general order, prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning construction of a new electric generating plant, electric transmission, power, or distribution line facility, or new, upgraded, or modified substation without first complying with specified requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 529	California SB 529 (20212022)	bill	Electricity: electrical transmission facilities.	enacted	Hertzberg	6	31	7	2021-02-17	2022-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/ae48eb09-ed17-4702-ac88-af90ac72d21f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB529	f24bc61c0075ec5fde6492b61f62c5fdace8aae9e290a2d1682431b26d63ac89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 529 (20212022) — Electricity: electrical transmission facilities.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The commission, through a general order, prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning construction of a new electric generating plant, electric transmission, power, or distribution line facility, or new, upgraded, or modified substation without first complying with specified requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/16/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/23/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/16/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB529 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 529 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Quirk — 65–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB529 Hertzberg Concurrence — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy] — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-14 April 19 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-15 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2021-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 915.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1087.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-13 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-20 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-07-29 August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (August 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5380.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 357, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae48eb09-ed17-4702-ac88-af90ac72d21f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).