Update re schedule for SB 28X and status of bill:

During my meeting with Kip Lippert of Sen. Sher's office today he had a
conversation with the Senator during which Sher indicated that he did not
feel SB 28X was ready to go to Senate Approps on Monday.  Sher's office will
work on language to clarify the bill's main program--the emission mitigation
fee in lieu of offset credits, and prepare the bill for a hearing later in
the week.  Our suggestions to clarify the bill's language on this key
proposal are being incorporated into the amendments along with similar
provisions offered by IEP.  Our "new" langauge on creating more offsets by
limiting local district discretion to interpret the rules on offset creation
arbitrarily will require negotiation with the air districts and the enviros
before Sher will consider them in the Assembly.  Mike Day

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Govenar [mailto:sgovenar@govadv.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:06 AM
To: Rick Shapiro; Jim Steffes; Harry.Kingerski@enron.com; Alan Comnes;
Paul Kaufman; Sandra McCubbin; Jeff Dasovich; Susan J Mara; Mike Day;
Leslie Lawner; John Neslage; Hedy Govenar; Bev Hansen
Subject: Tentative Legislative Schedule


The following is the tentative legislative schedule for next week.  This
will undoubtedly change.

03/12/2001

Senate APPROPRIATIONS

2:30 p.m. - California Room 4203

SBX1 28 (2001-2002) , Sher: SEN ( Status | History | Version (amended
sen) 03/05/2001:
Topic: Powerplant siting.
Last Action: From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and
re-refer to Com. on
APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 110.) (03/08/2001)
File: SEN SECOND READING (Item # 1) (03/12/2001)
Digest Summary:(1) Existing law requires the Director of Finance to make
certain
adjustments, with respect to ensuring that the modifications required by
specified statutes to
property tax revenue allocations do not have a net fiscal impact on
school districts or
community college districts, or upon the state's obligation under the
California Constitution to
provide funding to those districts.
This bill would require the property tax assessed value of new
electrical generation property, as
defined, assessed by county tax assessors to be allocated entirely to
the county or city in which the
property is located, as defined.

Assembly ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY

1:30 p.m. - Room 4202

ABX1 32 (2001-2002) , Nation and Aroner: ASM ENERGY COSTS AND
AVAILABILITY ( Status | History | Version (introduced) 02/05/2001: HTML
| PDF )
Topic: Public utilities: rates.
Last Action: In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY)
Digest Summary:(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission
requires every electrical
and gas corporation to file a schedule of rates and charges providing
baseline rates.
This bill would instead require the commission to establish a 3-tier
rate structure for residential
electric customers.

ABX1 37 (2001-2002) , Frommer: ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY (
Status |
History | Version (amended asm) 02/27/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Energy resources.
Last Action: Re-referred to Com. on E. C. & A. (02/28/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY)
Digest Summary:Existing law imposes various requirements on various
entities with regard to
energy conservation, generation, and development in the state.
This bill would require the energy commission to expand existing
programs to promote clean
distribution generation technologies, as defined .

ABX1 38 (2001-2002) , Jackson: ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY (
Status |
History | Version (introduced) 02/09/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Energy resources: energy generation measures.
Last Action: In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY)
Digest Summary:Existing law establishes the California Alternative
Energy and Advanced
Transportation Financing Authority and prescribes the duties of the
authority with respect to, among
other things, promoting prompt and efficient development of energy
sources that are renewable or
that more efficiently utilize and conserve scarce energy resources.
The bill would appropriate $150,000,000 from the General Fund to the
authority for a program to
create loan guarantees to underwrite joint venture agreements between
public power entities,
independent generators, and utilities for specified purposes.

ABX1 60 (2001-2002) , Hertzberg: ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY (
Status
| History | Version (introduced) 02/16/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Electrical generating facilities: certification.
Last Action: In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the
request of author.
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY)
Digest Summary:(1) Existing law requires the State Energy Resources
Conservation and
Development Commission to approve the siting of electrical generating
facilities, as specified.
This bill would require, as a condition of certification by the
commission, that an applicant offer to sell
to an electrical corporation, a municipal corporation, or the Department
of Water Resources, at a
just and reasonable cost base price electrical power generated by the
facility.

ABX1 63 (2001-2002) , Havice and Rod Pacheco: ASM ENERGY COSTS AND
AVAILABILITY ( Status | History | Version (introduced) 02/16/2001: HTML
| PDF )
Topic: Joint Exercise of Powers Agreements: school districts: utility
rates.
Last Action: Referred to Com. on E. C. & A. (03/01/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY)
Digest Summary:Under existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act,
public agencies are
authorized to agree to join together as joint powers agencies for
specified purposes.
This bill would authorize school districts to enter into joint exercise
of powers agreements pursuant to
that act for the purpose of negotiating large energy user rates from
public utilities.

ABX1 75 (2001-2002) , Calderon: ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY (
Status |
History | Version (amended asm) 03/05/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Electrical energy: natural gas generators: air pollution.
Last Action: Re-referred to Com. on E. C. & A. (03/06/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM ENERGY COSTS AND AVAILABILITY)
Digest Summary:This bill would amend the Public Utilities Act to require
an electrical corporation,
as defined, to waive any otherwise applicable standby charge for a
customer who has installed a
microgeneration facility, as defined, or a renewable facility, as
defined, on or after 90 days from the
effective date of the bill, if that facility meets certain requirements.

Assembly REVENUE AND TAXATION

1:30 p.m. - Room 126

ABX1 19 (2001-2002) , Briggs: ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION ( Status |
History |
Version (amended asm) 03/07/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Sales and use tax exemption: diesel fuel.
Last Action: Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION)
Digest Summary:The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the gross
receipts from the sale in
this state of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in this state
of, tangible personal property.
This bill would, beginning on July 1, 2001, and ending on January 1,
2002 , additionally exempt
from that tax diesel fuel used in farming activities .

ABX1 27 (2001-2002) , Koretz: ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION ( Status |
History |
Version (amended asm) 03/07/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Income and bank and corporation tax credits: power generation.
Last Action: Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION)
Digest Summary:(1) Provisions of the Public Utilities Act restructuring
the electrical services
industry enable electrical corporations to recover certain uneconomic
costs associated with electrical
deregulation through the imposition of a nonbypassable competition
transition charge on classes of
consumers until December 31, 2001, with specified exceptions.
This bill would prohibit any private entity that installs a power
generating system, as defined, from
being subject to a standby charge, as imposed pursuant to existing law,
or as imposed pursuant to a
rule or order of the Public Utilities Commission.

ABX1 58 (2001-2002) , Cox: ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION ( Status | History |
Version
(introduced) 02/16/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Sales and use taxes: exemption: solar energy system.
Last Action: Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and E. C. & A.
(02/26/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION)
Digest Summary:The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the gross
receipts from the sale in
this state of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in this state
of, tangible personal property.
This bill would additionally exempt from sales and use taxes any solar
energy system designed to
provide thermal energy for the purpose of heating water or providing
electrical power, which
purposes would otherwise require the use of a conventional source of
energy, such as petroleum
products, natural gas, manufactured gas, or electricity, as specified.

ABX1 62 (2001-2002) , Cohn: ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION ( Status | History
|
Version (amended asm) 03/08/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Powerplant facilities: property tax incentives.
Last Action: From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and
re-refer to Com. on
REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/12/2001 (ASM REVENUE AND TAXATION)
Digest Summary: Existing property tax law requires the county assessor
to assess the value
of certain electric generation facilities.
This bill would appropriate from the General Fund those amounts
necessary to fund payments equal
to 25% of the property tax revenue derived from a new powerplant
facility, as defined, to a qualified
local agency, as defined, for 5 fiscal years after the facility is first
placed in service.

03/13/2001

Senate ENERGY, UTILITIES, AND COMMUNICATIONS

1:30 p.m. - Room 112

SBX1 9 (2001-2002) , Morrow: SEN ENERGY, UTILITIES, AND COMMUNICATIONS (

Status | History | Version (introduced) 01/22/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Electric bill: master-meter customers: rate ceiling.
Last Action: Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on E.,U., & C.
(01/22/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/13/2001 (SEN ENERGY, UTILITIES, AND COMMUNICATIONS)
Digest Summary:(1) The Public Utilities Act requires every master-meter
customer to provide an
itemized billing of charges for electricity or gas, or both, to each
individual user generally in
accordance with the form and content of bills of the corporation to its
residential customers.
This bill would require the billing to show any undercollection in the
current billing cycle due to the
ceiling, the total accumulated undercollection to that date, and
accumulated interest on the
accumulated undercollection, as prescribed, and to be consistent with
specified accounting
procedures.

Assembly JUDICIARY

9 a.m. - Room 4202

ABX1 47 (2001-2002) , Wiggins: ASM JUDICIARY ( Status | History |
Version (amended
asm) 03/08/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Public utilities: public agencies.
Last Action: From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and
re-refer to Com. on
JUD. Read second time and amended. (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/13/2001 (ASM JUDICIARY)
Digest Summary:(1) Under existing law, an authorized person may exercise
the power of eminent
domain to acquire property for a public use if, among other factors, the
property sought is necessary,
as defined.
This bill would delete the applicability of the rebuttable presumption
provision where the property to
be appropriated is electric or gas public utility property that the
public entity intends to put to the
same use.

03/14/2001

Assembly APPROPRIATIONS

9:30 a.m. - Room 4202

ABX1 29 (2001-2002) , Kehoe: ASM APPROPRIATIONS ( Status | History |
Version
(amended asm) 03/05/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Energy conservation.
Last Action: From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR.
Re-referred. (Ayes 14.
Noes 0.) (March 6). (03/07/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/14/2001 (ASM APPROPRIATIONS)
Digest Summary:(1) The existing Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources
Conservation and
Development Act requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission
to perform specified duties relating to the conservation and development
of energy resources.
This bill would require the commission to pay the costs of installation
of an interval meter to a small
business that voluntarily reduces its electric consumption.

ABX1 41 (2001-2002) , Lowenthal and Nakano: ASM APPROPRIATIONS ( Status
|
History | Version (amended asm) 03/05/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Shopping centers: energy conservation loans.
Last Action: From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR.
Re-referred. (Ayes 12.
Noes 1.) (March 8). (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/14/2001 (ASM APPROPRIATIONS)
Digest Summary:Existing law requires the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development
Commission to administer a program of grants and loans with respect to
energy efficiency measures
and programs.
This bill would authorize the owner of any shopping center, defined by
the bill to mean a group of 2
or more retail stores that use common parking facilities or that open to
an enclosed common area,
to apply to the commission for an energy audit and loan for energy
conservation projects
identified by that audit.

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ABX1 53 (2001-2002) , Reyes: ASM APPROPRIATIONS ( Status | History |
Version
(introduced) 02/14/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Energy resources: loan guarantees.
Last Action: From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR.
Re-referred. (Ayes 17.
Noes 1.) (March 8). (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/14/2001 (ASM APPROPRIATIONS)
Digest Summary:Existing law establishes the Technology, Trade and
Commerce Agency with
specified powers and duties relating to economic development and science
and technology.
This bill would require the agency to administer the California
Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee
Program to guarantee loans made by financial institutions to eligible
businesses for the permitting,
manufacturing, acquisition, construction, or installation of renewable
energy systems that are intended
to decrease demand on the electricity grid.

ABX1 83 (2001-2002) , Keeley and Pescetti: ASM APPROPRIATIONS ( Status |
History |
Version (amended asm) 03/08/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Public utilities: net energy metering.
Last Action: From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and
re-refer to Com. on
APPR. Read second time and amended. (03/08/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/14/2001 (ASM APPROPRIATIONS)
Digest Summary:This bill would eliminate the specified limitations on
the number of contracts.



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ABX1 30 (2001-2002) , Cardoza and Salinas: ASM APPROPRIATIONS ( Status |
History |
Version (amended asm) 03/06/2001: HTML | PDF )
Topic: Crimes: energy shortage.
Last Action: Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (03/07/2001)
Hearing Date: 03/14/2001 (ASM APPROPRIATIONS)
Digest Summary:(1) Existing law provides that every person who violates
specified property
offenses during a "state of emergency" or a "local emergency" resulting
from an earthquake, fire,
flood, riot, or other natural or manmade disaster is guilty of the crime
of looting.
This bill would include the violation of those property offenses during
a "blackout," as defined.



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