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type: "Bill"
title: "Electricity: surcharge exemption: industrial process heat recovery."
description: "Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law, except as provided, requires certain uneconomic costs to be applied to each customer based on the amount of electricity purchased by that customer from an electrical corporation or alternate supplier of electricity, subject to changes in usage occurring in the normal course of business. Under existing law, changes in usage occurring in the normal course of business are those resulting from, among other things, the enhancement or increased efficiency of equipment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2109"
citation: "California AB 2109 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electricity", "industrial process heat recovery", "surcharge exemption"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Juan Carrillo"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33b24aa4-c1e3-4bf6-8ba0-79fbb23b380c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2109"
source_hash: "6010f12ebd0c0b7ab7d6f1e691355c188cf1432241687e44cfd587d3ddbb1d48"
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 AB 2109 (20232024) — Electricity: surcharge exemption: industrial process heat recovery.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law, except as provided, requires certain uneconomic costs to be applied to each customer based on the amount of electricity purchased by that customer from an electrical corporation or alternate supplier of electricity, subject to changes in usage occurring in the normal course of business. Under existing law, changes in usage occurring in the normal course of business are those resulting from, among other things, the enhancement or increased efficiency of equipment.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/05/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2109&version=20230AB210999INT)
2. **04/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2109&version=20230AB210998AMD)
3. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2109&version=20230AB210997AMD)
4. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2109&version=20230AB210995CHP)
5. **AB2109** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2109)
6. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2109&version=20230AB210996ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **160** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 2109 Juan Carrillo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **140** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2109 Juan Carrillo By Becker — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **150** (pass) · lower
- AB 2109 Juan Carrillo Assembly Third Reading — **730** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Juan Carrillo — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2024-02-20** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-04-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 17). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5421.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 700, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33b24aa4-c1e3-4bf6-8ba0-79fbb23b380c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).