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Bill	Electrical and gas corporations: capital expenditures: request for authorization or recovery.	Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits a public utility from changing any rate, except upon a showing before the commission and a finding by the commission that the new rate is justified. With certain exceptions, whenever an electrical corporation or gas corporation files an application to change any rate for the services or commodities furnished by it, existing law requires the corporation to furnish to its affected customers a notice of its application to the commission for approval of the new rate.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2847	California AB 2847 (20232024)	bill	Electrical and gas corporations capital expenditures request for authorization or recovery	enacted	Addis	6	22	6	2024-02-15	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/f1a0e3d4-edd4-4272-9a85-83a7a3db4796	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2847	d255660fe4d2297aac46cf829293334c9af6ce1d23868fa3cceab6d402e77f0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2847 (20232024) — Electrical and gas corporations: capital expenditures: request for authorization or recovery.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits a public utility from changing any rate, except upon a showing before the commission and a finding by the commission that the new rate is justified. With certain exceptions, whenever an electrical corporation or gas corporation files an application to change any rate for the services or commodities furnished by it, existing law requires the corporation to furnish to its affected customers a notice of its application to the commission for approval of the new rate.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2847 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/28/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2847 Addis et al. By Durazo — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 2847 Addis Assembly Third Reading — 52–11 (pass) · lower
• AB 2847 Addis Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Addis — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — 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.
• 2024-03-04 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 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
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 11. Page 5303.) 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
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 3.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 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
• 2024-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 5235.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 11. Page 6567.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 578, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1a0e3d4-edd4-4272-9a85-83a7a3db4796. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).