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type: "Bill"
title: "Renewable energy resources."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. The existing California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (RPS program) requires a retail seller of electricity, as defined, and local publicly owned electric utilities to purchase specified minimum quantities of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for specified compliance periods. The specified minimum quantities of electricity products are based upon a percentage of the utility's total retail sales of electricity in California."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2196"
citation: "California AB 2196 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Renewable energy resources."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chesbro"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 39
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2012-02-23"
last_action: "2012-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/caec877a-2456-4d67-9024-f72166052fe5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196"
source_hash: "67888ad37a06b19c723a6945ecf12455b31fdc84c373cef4ddad73ea10c805e9"
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 2196 (20112012) — Renewable energy resources.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. The existing California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (RPS program) requires a retail seller of electricity, as defined, and local publicly owned electric utilities to purchase specified minimum quantities of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for specified compliance periods. The specified minimum quantities of electricity products are based upon a percentage of the utility's total retail sales of electricity in California.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/23/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219699INT)
2. **05/15/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219698AMD)
3. **06/20/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219697AMD)
4. **08/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219696AMD)
5. **08/22/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219695AMD)
6. **08/31/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219694AMD)
7. **09/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219692CHP)
8. **AB2196** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196)
9. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2196&version=20110AB219693ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- AB 2196 CHESBRO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–25** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2196 Chesbro By Kehoe Reconsider — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2196 Chesbro By Kehoe — **12–21** (fail) · upper
- AB 2196 CHESBRO Assembly Third Reading — **66–1** (pass) · lower
- WORF AB2196 Chesbro By Kehoe — **35–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chesbro — primary (person)
- Gatto — author (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2012-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2012-03-19** Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-05-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 1. Page 4978.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-14** Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-21** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 12. Noes 21. Page 4779.). `reading-3, failure, reading-1`
- **2012-08-23** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Kehoe.
- **2012-08-23** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4780.)
- **2012-08-30** Ordered to inactive file pursuant to Senate Rule 29.
- **2012-08-30** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Dutton.
- **2012-08-31** From inactive file.
- **2012-08-31** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-31** (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)
- **2012-08-31** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)
- **2012-08-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-31** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-08-31** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-31** (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 5077.)
- **2012-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 5098.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-31** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6799.)
- **2012-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 6800.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 605, Statutes of 2012.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/caec877a-2456-4d67-9024-f72166052fe5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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