republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-242.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public utilities."
description: "(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law requires every entity that offers an electricity product for sale to retail consumers in California to disclose its electricity sources and the associated intensity of greenhouse gas emissions for the previous calendar year. Existing law requires that disclosure to be made by the end of the first complete billing cycle for the third quarter of each year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 242"
citation: "California AB 242 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public utilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb55aac7-648c-48b0-968b-9118db138e18"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242"
source_hash: "09969b00000deaf33ff8f081d83fb0ca1d830e3635c7c13405c3a75139565d17"
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 242 (20212022) — Public utilities.

(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities. Existing law requires every entity that offers an electricity product for sale to retail consumers in California to disclose its electricity sources and the associated intensity of greenhouse gas emissions for the previous calendar year. Existing law requires that disclosure to be made by the end of the first complete billing cycle for the third quarter of each year.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/13/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242&version=20210AB24299INT)
2. **03/22/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242&version=20210AB24298AMD)
3. **04/12/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242&version=20210AB24297AMD)
4. **05/20/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242&version=20210AB24296AMD)
5. **06/29/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242&version=20210AB24295AMD)
6. **09/23/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242&version=20210AB24293CHP)
7. **AB242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242)
8. **09/09/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB242&version=20210AB24294ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 242 Holden Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB242 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 242 Holden Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-14** From printer. May be heard in committee February 13.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** 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`
- **2021-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-29** From Consent Calendar.
- **2021-04-29** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-05-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1464.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1532.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-03** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-23** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2388.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2840.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2021-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 228, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb55aac7-648c-48b0-968b-9118db138e18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).