republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2765.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Utilities Commission: reports: telecommunications service: backup electricity."
description: "Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop, publish, and annually update a report containing specified information, including the commission's annual work plan, performance criteria for the commission and its executive director, an accounting of the commission's transactions and proceedings from the prior year, a description of activities taken and processes instituted to solicit the input of customers from diverse regions of the state in ratesetting and quasi-legislative proceedings, a list of its public meetings held outside San Francisco in the previous year, a schedule of its meetings anticipated to be held outside San Francisco during the coming year, and a summary of deenergization event trends and the effect of deenergization events on telecommunications service and public safety, as specified. Existing law requires the commission to post the report in a conspicuous area of its internet website."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2765"
citation: "California AB 2765 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Utilities Commission", "backup electricity", "reports", "telecommunications service"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pellerin"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0d5fad5-8e7f-458e-96b5-f55d23565d74"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765"
source_hash: "a7aca97b52e2100c5acc5af94dc73f26326896e8d1cb76b71ca3f23660d40fd3"
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 2765 (20232024) — Public Utilities Commission: reports: telecommunications service: backup electricity.

Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop, publish, and annually update a report containing specified information, including the commission's annual work plan, performance criteria for the commission and its executive director, an accounting of the commission's transactions and proceedings from the prior year, a description of activities taken and processes instituted to solicit the input of customers from diverse regions of the state in ratesetting and quasi-legislative proceedings, a list of its public meetings held outside San Francisco in the previous year, a schedule of its meetings anticipated to be held outside San Francisco during the coming year, and a summary of deenergization event trends and the effect of deenergization events on telecommunications service and public safety, as specified. Existing law requires the commission to post the report in a conspicuous area of its internet website.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765&version=20230AB276599INT)
2. **03/11/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765&version=20230AB276598AMD)
3. **04/15/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765&version=20230AB276597AMD)
4. **06/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765&version=20230AB276596AMD)
5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765&version=20230AB276594CHP)
6. **AB2765** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765)
7. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2765&version=20230AB276595ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2765 Pellerin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2765 Pellerin Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2765 Pellerin By Ashby — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pellerin — primary (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.
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on C. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-12** Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5445.) `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`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 740, 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/b0d5fad5-8e7f-458e-96b5-f55d23565d74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).