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type: "Bill"
title: "Electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation plans: deenergization events."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires an electrical corporation to construct, maintain, and operate its electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by those electrical lines and equipment. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan to the PUC for review and approval, as specified. Following approval, the PUC is required to oversee an electrical corporation's compliance with the plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 533"
citation: "California SB 533 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation plans: deenergization events."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stern"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 37
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2021-02-17"
last_action: "2021-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5b42cd6-ad69-4e90-813c-d66c015a9bec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533"
source_hash: "1864039e8c3afafa1fc2845ed947f4c77694a1bd6405237dc8a9ef128034fe07"
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 533 (20212022) — Electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation plans: deenergization events.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires an electrical corporation to construct, maintain, and operate its electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire posed by those electrical lines and equipment. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan to the PUC for review and approval, as specified. Following approval, the PUC is required to oversee an electrical corporation's compliance with the plans.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53399INT)
2. **03/05/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53398AMD)
3. **04/26/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53397AMD)
4. **04/29/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53396AMD)
5. **05/20/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53395AMD)
6. **07/01/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53394AMD)
7. **09/01/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53393AMD)
8. **09/23/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53391CHP)
9. **SB533** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533)
10. **09/14/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB533&version=20210SB53392ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB533 Stern By McGuire Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 533 Stern Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Stern — 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 Coms. on E., U. & C. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Set for hearing April 12.
- **2021-04-08** April 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2021-04-09** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2021-04-22** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 842.) (April 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2021-04-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 936.) (April 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-07** Set for hearing May 17.
- **2021-05-17** May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2021-05-18** Set for hearing May 20.
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1195.) (May 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1376.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-10** Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 30). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-01** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-01** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3017.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2021-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2612.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5b42cd6-ad69-4e90-813c-d66c015a9bec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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