republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2292.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electrical transmission facilities: certificates of public convenience and necessity."
description: "Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The Public Utilities Act prohibits any electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require its construction, except that the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility, including transmission lines and substations, does not require a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Existing law requires the commission, in considering an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for an electric transmission facility, to consider cost‑effective alternatives to transmission facilities that meet the need for an efficient, reliable, and affordable supply of electricity, including demand-side alternatives such as targeted energy efficiency, ultraclean distributed generation, as defined, and other demand reduction resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2292"
citation: "California AB 2292 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electrical transmission facilities", "certificates of public convenience and necessity"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Petrie-Norris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6acd979b-153a-425f-9826-41f0bd4275a6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2292"
source_hash: "f79b701b1032cf499d3bc5d8cf58e8cc21733f04deaee84ece55ce63f211a662"
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 2292 (20232024) — Electrical transmission facilities: certificates of public convenience and necessity.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The Public Utilities Act prohibits any electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require its construction, except that the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility, including transmission lines and substations, does not require a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Existing law requires the commission, in considering an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for an electric transmission facility, to consider cost‑effective alternatives to transmission facilities that meet the need for an efficient, reliable, and affordable supply of electricity, including demand-side alternatives such as targeted energy efficiency, ultraclean distributed generation, as defined, and other demand reduction resources.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2292&version=20230AB229299INT)
2. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2292&version=20230AB229297CHP)
3. **AB2292** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2292)
4. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2292&version=20230AB229298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2292 Petrie-Norris Assembly Third Reading — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2292 Petrie-Norris By Padilla — **30–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Petrie-Norris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Com. on U. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5596.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-05** Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 709, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6acd979b-153a-425f-9826-41f0bd4275a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).