With Jim in Sacramento tomorrow, and hearings scheduled to discuss additional amendments, seems like a good opportunity for Jim to testify and knock some sense into the damn committee. They won't know what hit 'em.
 
Best,
Jeff

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Govenar 
Sent: Tue 8/28/2001 8:42 PM 
To: Sharma, Ban; Leboe, David; Eric Letke; Thome, Jennifer; Ken Smith; Bev Hansen; Hedy Govenar; Buster, Miyung; Guerrero, Janel; Robert Frank; Mike Day; Lawner, Leslie; Kingerski, Harry; Karen Denne; Kean, Steven J.; Alan Comnes; Susan J Mara; Kaufman, Paul; Jeff Dasovich; Steffes, James D.; Rick Shapiro 
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Subject: SBX2 78 - Update



The Assembly Energy, Costs and Availability Committee heard and voted on
amendments to SBX2 78 proposed by many interested parties.  Some passed,
some failed and most of them served to further confuse the committee
members.  Eventually the committee stalled on detailed proposals made by
TURN and other consumer groups.

During the hearing Hedy had the opportunity to speak to Nancy McFadden and
Richard Katz from the Governor s office regarding a couple of issues
highlighted by Jeff and Mike Day.  Richard said he is willing to make more
technical amendments when the bill gets to Appropriations.  Subsequently,
Hedy and I spoke to D.J. Smith at Jeff s request.  D.J. agreed that the bill
needs to use the August 24th date as a grandfather date for executed DA
contracts, but specifically asked that we (Enron) not speak to Richard about
it.  He said he will have the business entities request it as a clarifying
amendment.  If we request it, he thought Richard would be less likely to
believe it's clarifying since he believes our motives to be too
self-serving.  Also, we spent some time with Lenny Goldberg on direct
access.  We suggested that  shall be changed to  may in order to give more
leeway to the PUC on direct access suspension.  He didn t necessarily oppose
the policy, but his position is not to amend a bad bill unless you can
totally rewrite it (which he later attempted to do).

A lobbyist for a significant generator told us that they are prepared to
push Edison into bankruptcy (along with the Canadian government) if this
bill passes.

There is no consensus that this measure will ever get to the Governor s
desk.

The committee will meet again tomorrow at approximately 1:30 p.m. to vote on
additional amendments and ultimately to vote on the complete bill.