Electricity: procurement: generation from biomass.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires electrical corporations, in addition to other requirements to procure generating capacity from bioenergy projects, to collectively procure, by December 1, 2023, their proportionate share of 125 megawatts of cumulative rated generating capacity from bioenergy projects that commenced operations before June 1, 2013, and that use certain feedstocks.
California AB 2750 (20232024) — Electricity: procurement: generation from biomass.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires electrical corporations, in addition to other requirements to procure generating capacity from bioenergy projects, to collectively procure, by December 1, 2023, their proportionate share of 125 megawatts of cumulative rated generating capacity from bioenergy projects that commenced operations before June 1, 2013, and that use certain feedstocks.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 2750 Gallagher Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–1 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading AB2750 Gallagher et al. By Caballero — 35–3 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
AB 2750 Gallagher Assembly Third Reading — 58–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Gallagher — primary (person)
Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
2024-03-18 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
2024-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
2024-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
2024-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 0. Page 5318.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-21 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 15. 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 3.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2024-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 1.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 575, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df4c07d5-5ba0-4511-879d-5119b09c5c45. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).