republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2316.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Utilities Commission: customer renewable energy subscription programs and the community renewable energy program."
description: "Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, the Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program requires an electrical corporation with 100,000 or more customers in California to file with the commission an application requesting approval of a tariff to implement a program enabling ratepayers to participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources. Existing law requires the commission to develop programs to increase the adoption of renewable generation among residential customers in disadvantaged communities, and, acting pursuant to that requirement, the commission has adopted, among others, the Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff program and the Community Solar Green Tariff program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2316"
citation: "California AB 2316 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Utilities Commission: customer renewable energy subscription programs and the community renewable energy program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 37
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d3e96fe-7993-426a-9301-326512971178"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316"
source_hash: "963c990e15fb05dd7b1f5120db8609267039e3f1c9b918839bfa264c5db4f8d2"
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 2316 (20212022) — Public Utilities Commission: customer renewable energy subscription programs and the community renewable energy program.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, the Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program requires an electrical corporation with 100,000 or more customers in California to file with the commission an application requesting approval of a tariff to implement a program enabling ratepayers to participate directly in offsite electrical generation facilities that use eligible renewable energy resources. Existing law requires the commission to develop programs to increase the adoption of renewable generation among residential customers in disadvantaged communities, and, acting pursuant to that requirement, the commission has adopted, among others, the Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff program and the Community Solar Green Tariff program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231699INT)
2. **03/28/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231698AMD)
3. **05/02/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231697AMD)
4. **05/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231696AMD)
5. **06/13/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231695AMD)
6. **06/20/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231694AMD)
7. **08/01/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231693AMD)
8. **08/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231692AMD)
9. **08/24/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231691AMD)
10. **09/16/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231689CHP)
11. **AB2316** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316)
12. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2316&version=20210AB231690ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2316 Ward et al. By Hertzberg — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- AB 2316 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **51–16** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — **11–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 2316 Ward Assembly Third Reading — **47–22** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ward — primary (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** 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`
- **2022-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-04-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-04-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 27). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-02** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-05-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 22. Page 4990.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2022-06-20** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-08** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5208.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 16.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 350, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d3e96fe-7993-426a-9301-326512971178`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).