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 04/07/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2424 Public Utilities Commission: communications: low-income customers.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/16/2026 09:00 PM

AB2424:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 07, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2424

Introduced by Assembly Member Carrillo

February 20, 2026

An act to amend Section 382.1 of, and to add Section add Sections 871.6 to, and 872 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to communications. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2424, as amended, Carrillo.
 Public Utilities Commission: communications: low-income customers.

Existing law establishes the Low-Income Oversight Board with 11 specified members, including 5 members selected by the Public Utilities Commission who have expertise in the low-income community and who are not affiliated with any state agency or utility group and one member selected by the commission who is a representative of an electrical or gas corporation. Existing law and requires the board Low-Income Oversight Board to advise the commission
 Public Utilities Commission on low-income electricity, gas, and water customer issues, and to, among other things, monitor and evaluate implementation of all programs provided to low-income electricity, gas, and water customers.

This bill would increase the membership of
 the board to 13 members by adding an additional member selected by the commission who has expertise in the low-income community and who is not affiliated with any state agency or utility group and an additional member selected by the commission who is a representative of wireless lifeline providers and is affiliated with a provider with headquarters in the state. establish the Low-Income Telecommunications Advisory Board with specified membership. The bill would require the board to also Low-Income Telecommunications Advisory Board to, among other things, advise the commission on low-income telecommunications customer issues
 issues, serve as a liaison for the commission to low-income customers and stakeholders, provide certain reports to the Legislature, and to monitor and evaluate implementation of all programs provided to low-income telecommunications customers. customers, as provided. The bill would require the commission, in conjunction with the Low-Income Telecommunications Advisory Board, to increase participation in programs for low-income telecommunications customers and ensure that the cost burden of low-income telecommunications customers is reduced, as specified.

Existing law vests the commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone
 corporations. Existing law, the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act, establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service.

This bill would prohibit the commission, in administering the lifeline program, from
 favoring or disfavoring one technology over another technology and from unfairly advantaging or disadvantaging one provider over another provider. require the commission to administer the lifeline program in a technologically inclusive manner and would prohibit the commission from discriminating against lifeline providers by adopting rules that favor or disfavor certain providers.

Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.

Because the provisions of this bill would be part of the act, and a violation of a commission action implementing its provisions would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
 program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact a