Fire prevention: electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation: workforce diversity.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law establishes the Wildfire Safety Division within the commission. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan to the division for review and approval, as specified. Existing law prevents an electrical corporation from diverting revenues authorized to implement the plan to any activities or investments outside of the plan and requires an electrical corporation to notify the commission and the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety by advice letter of the date when the electrical corporation projects that it will have spent, or incurred obligations to spend, its entire annual revenue requirement for vegetation management in its plan, as specified.
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20212022
SB 694
California SB 694 (20212022)
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Fire prevention: electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation: workforce diversity.
California SB 694 (20212022) — Fire prevention: electrical corporations: wildfire mitigation: workforce diversity.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law establishes the Wildfire Safety Division within the commission. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan to the division for review and approval, as specified. Existing law prevents an electrical corporation from diverting revenues authorized to implement the plan to any activities or investments outside of the plan and requires an electrical corporation to notify the commission and the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety by advice letter of the date when the electrical corporation projects that it will have spent, or incurred obligations to spend, its entire annual revenue requirement for vegetation management in its plan, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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
2021-06-14 June 16 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2021-06-22 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
2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
2021-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2813.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2021-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2607.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4810da16-55bb-4592-afc4-48a14443bf74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).