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 AB-13 Public Utilities Commission: membership: reports.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/17/2025 09:00 PM

AB13:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
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 Senate
 July 17, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 May 23, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 March 17, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 February 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 13

Introduced by Assembly Member Ransom
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Ellis)
(Coauthor: Senator Rubio)

December 02, 2024

An act to amend Sections 301, 321.6, and 910.1 of, and to add Section 910.10 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to the Public Utilities Commission. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 13, as amended, Ransom.
 Public Utilities Commission: membership: reports.

The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission consisting of 5 members appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate.

This bill would require that 4 members of the commission represent the geographic locations of the 4 State Board of Equalization districts, existing as of January 1, 2026, and one member be an at-large member with expertise in nongovernmental public advocacy or public interest law and with a nongovernmental background, as specified. The bill would require the Governor, in selecting, and the Senate, in confirming, members of the commission to consider regional diversity in the membership of the commission. The bill would require the
 Governor, in appointing a candidate for membership in the commission, to consider using a candidate pool that comprises persons with permanent residences in certain regions of the state, as specified.

Existing law requires the president of the commission to appear annually before the appropriate policy committees of the Senate and the Assembly to present certain information. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for public utilities, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable.

This bill would require the president of the commission, at the annual appearance before those committees, to also present information related to rates affordability and ratesetting cases decided by, or pending before, the commission.

Existing law requires the commission to report annually to the Legislature on the timeliness in
 resolving cases, including the number of orders issued extending the statutory deadline.

This bill would specify that the above information includes the number of cases in which the commission failed to issue a decision within the statutory deadline. The bill would require the commission, within 15 days of adopting a final decision on a ratesetting case, to submit to the Legislature a report containing certain information regarding the ratesetting case.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 301 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

301.

 (a) The membership of the Public Utilities Commission, and the qualifications and tenure of the members of the commission are as provided in Section 1 of Article XII of the California Constitution.

(b) (1) In addition to subdivision (a) and except as provided in paragraph (2), the membership of the commission shall be as follows: include, at minimum, one at-large member who shall have expertise in nongovernmental public advocacy or public interest law and a nongovernmental background in consumer advocacy, consumer protection, or
 advocating for residents, especially vulnerable groups.

(A)Four members, each of which represents a different geographic location consistent with
 the geographic locations of the four State Board of Equalization districts existing as of January 1, 2026.

(B)One at-large member who shall have expertise in nongovernmental public advocacy or public interest law and a nongovernmental background in consumer advocacy, consumer protection, or advocating for residents, especially vulnerable groups.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a member of the commission whose term of office has not expired on Ja