republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-1409.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Utilities Commission: safety investigations."
description: "The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities and authorizes the commission to establish its own procedures, subject to statutory limitations or directions and constitutional requirements of due process. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to publish and maintain certain documents and information and make specified materials available on the commission's Internet Web site. The act requires the commission to submit certain information about its activities to the Governor and the Legislature no later than February 1 of each year, including a work plan describing its scheduled ratemaking proceedings, an accounting of its transactions and proceedings, and a report on the number of cases where resolution of the case exceeded the time periods prescribed in scoping memos and on the number of days that commissioners presided in hearings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1409"
citation: "California SB 1409 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Utilities Commission: safety investigations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-21"
last_action: "2014-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/403f90eb-dd4d-4281-b4d9-2404cb558606"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409"
source_hash: "532496972f63f4d36ed8d24910e3c914cae0f11048b18c962aafae4e17ab9f4a"
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 SB 1409 (20132014) — Public Utilities Commission: safety investigations.

The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities and authorizes the commission to establish its own procedures, subject to statutory limitations or directions and constitutional requirements of due process. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to publish and maintain certain documents and information and make specified materials available on the commission's Internet Web site. The act requires the commission to submit certain information about its activities to the Governor and the Legislature no later than February 1 of each year, including a work plan describing its scheduled ratemaking proceedings, an accounting of its transactions and proceedings, and a report on the number of cases where resolution of the case exceeded the time periods prescribed in scoping memos and on the number of days that commissioners presided in hearings.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140999INT)
2. **04/02/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140998AMD)
3. **04/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140997AMD)
4. **06/04/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140996AMD)
5. **08/05/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140995AMD)
6. **08/21/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140994AMD)
7. **09/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140992CHP)
8. **SB1409** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409)
9. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1409&version=20130SB140993ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #14 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1409 Hill Senate Third Reading By PATTERSON — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1409 Hill Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2014-02-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
- **2014-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2014-03-17** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-11** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2014-04-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3296.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-02** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2014-05-12** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-14** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3468.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-23** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-21** Read third time and amended. (Page 6282.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-21** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6451.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4913.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2014-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 563, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/403f90eb-dd4d-4281-b4d9-2404cb558606`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).