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 04/13/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/18/26 - Introduced

 AB-2124 Electricity and natural gas: legislation imposing mandated programs and requirements: third-party review. (2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

AB2124:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 13, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2124

Introduced by Assembly Members Pacheco and Bauer-Kahan
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Alvarez, Ávila Farías, Davies, Jeff Gonzalez, and Hoover) Hoover, and Michelle Rodriguez)
(Coauthors: Senators Dahle, Hurtado, Ochoa Bogh, and Strickland)

February 18, 2026

 An act to add and repeal Section 3261 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2124, as amended, Pacheco.
 Electricity and natural gas: legislation imposing mandated programs and requirements: third-party review. 

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations.

Existing law finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was organized as a nonprofit corporation at the request of the Legislature for the specific purpose of offering expert advice to the state government on public policy issues significantly related to science and technology. Existing law requests the CCST, every 3 years, to assess the infrastructure project types, scale, and pace necessary to achieve the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, as specified.

This bill would require the CCST to establish, on or before January
 March 1, 2027, upon appropriation by the Legislature, a program to, upon request of the Legislature, analyze legislation that would establish a mandated requirement or program, as defined, or otherwise affect electrical corporation or gas corporation ratepayers, as specified. The bill would require the CCST to develop and implement conflict-of-interest provisions to prohibit a person from participating in an analysis for which the person knows or has reasons to know that the person has a material financial interest. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2032. 

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.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) There are an increasing number of proposals that mandate certain programs be paid by ratepayers of electrical corporations and gas corporations.

(2) Many of the proposals would potentially result in positive outcomes that would be in the public interest.

(3) Those proposals providing benefits may also contribute to the cost and affordability of electricity and natural gas service.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following:

(1) Promote affordable electricity and natural gas utility rates while also addressing the critical climate issues of the time, including the requirements for renewable and zero-carbon electricity and economywide decarbonization in law.

(2) Preemptively address the issue that electricity and natural gas utility rates are increasing.

(3) Analyze the estimated costs and efficacy of a new program or requirement imposed under proposed legislation that would be paid for by ratepayers of electrical corporations and gas corporations to ensure the cost impact and potential benefits may be fully weighed and carefully considered before enacting the legislation.

(c) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the California Council on Science and Technology conduct a systematic review of proposed programs or requirements imposed under proposed legislation that would be paid for by ratepayers of electrical corporations and gas corporations to inform the Legislature in determining whether mandating a particular program or requirement is in the ratepayers’ interests, and for the California Council on Science and Technology to publish a written analysis of the estimated cost and efficacy of each legislative proposal, including relevant ex