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| Bill | Public Utilities Commission: proceedings, reports, and public utility procurement. | (1) The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission and authorizes the commission to exercise ratemaking and rulemaking authority over all public utilities, as defined, subject to control by the Legislature. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to determine whether each proceeding is a quasi-legislative, an adjudication, a ratesetting, or a catastrophic wildfire proceeding. Existing law requires the commission to establish a "quiet period" during the 3 business days before the commission's scheduled vote on a decision in a ratesetting case, and authorizes the commission to establish a quiet period during other specified periods of a ratesetting case and during the 3 business days before the commission's scheduled vote on a decision in a catastrophic wildfire proceeding, as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to meet in closed session during the quiet period of a ratesetting case and at any point during the pendency of the catastrophic wildfire proceeding, as specified. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20212022 | SB 599 | California SB 599 (20212022) |
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California SB 599 (20212022) — Public Utilities Commission: proceedings, reports, and public utility procurement.
(1) The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission and authorizes the commission to exercise ratemaking and rulemaking authority over all public utilities, as defined, subject to control by the Legislature. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to determine whether each proceeding is a quasi-legislative, an adjudication, a ratesetting, or a catastrophic wildfire proceeding. Existing law requires the commission to establish a "quiet period" during the 3 business days before the commission's scheduled vote on a decision in a ratesetting case, and authorizes the commission to establish a quiet period during other specified periods of a ratesetting case and during the 3 business days before the commission's scheduled vote on a decision in a catastrophic wildfire proceeding, as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to meet in closed session during the quiet period of a ratesetting case and at any point during the pendency of the catastrophic wildfire proceeding, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 06/13/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB599 (committee substitute) — source
- 09/07/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB599 Hueso Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- SB 599 Hueso Senate Third Reading By Quirk — 60–0 (pass) · lower
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar SB599 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Hueso — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction, reading-1 - 2021-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- 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.)
- 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
referral-committee - 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 19.
- 2021-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 842.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
- 2021-05-04 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
committee-passage, reading-2 - 2021-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-05-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1061.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2021-05-10 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 - 2022-06-09 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
referral-committee - 2022-06-13 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 11. Noes 0.) (August 10).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 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 39. Noes 0. Page 5382.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 703, Statutes of 2022.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7fa7ea7a-0ef4-4479-86a9-b6beb1aaeded. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).