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Bill	Electricity: transmission planning and permitting.	Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) , in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , on or before March 31, 2024, to provide transmission-focused guidance to the Independent System Operator about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, including the allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 319	California SB 319 (20232024)	bill	Electricity transmission planning and permitting	enacted	McGuire	7	30	8	2023-02-06	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/40cdb52a-055d-41f5-97fc-10a290f78dec	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB319	712dfdd18c127dfc2501b283b2efb5322fb45f6c80c460cdfc080790397d79cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 319 (20232024) — Electricity: transmission planning and permitting.

Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) , in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , on or before March 31, 2024, to provide transmission-focused guidance to the Independent System Operator about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, including the allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB319 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB319 McGuire Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 319 McGuire Senate Third Reading By Garcia — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McGuire — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-02-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
• 2023-02-15 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2023-04-17 April 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-04-18 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2023-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 870.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-05-05 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2023-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-16 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1165.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1298.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3398.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2832.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 390, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/40cdb52a-055d-41f5-97fc-10a290f78dec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).