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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 07/02/26 - Amended Senate
 06/18/26 - Amended Senate
 05/22/26 - Amended Assembly
 04/27/26 - Amended Assembly
 04/13/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/19/26 - Introduced

 AB-2313 Gas corporations: gas distribution service line replacements: alternatives.(2025-2026)

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

AB2313:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 18, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 22, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 27, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 13, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2313

Introduced by Assembly Member Berman
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Irwin and Muratsuchi)
(Coauthor: Senator Stern)

February 19, 2026

An act to add and repeal Section 785.3 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2313, as amended, Berman.
 Gas corporations: gas distribution service line replacements: alternatives.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. Existing law requires, until January 1, 2031, gas corporations to submit to the commission an annual map that includes, among other things, the location of all potential gas distribution line replacement projects identified in its distribution integrity management plan and any foreseeable gas distribution pipeline replacements.

This bill, the Home Energy Choice Act, would require the commission, in a new or existing proceeding, to solicit proposals for, and require each gas corporation to offer, a Gas Distribution Service Line Replacement Alternatives Program, on or before January 1, 2028, to provide certain residential gas customers served by a gas distribution service line that will be replaced with a monetary
 incentive to deploy gas distribution service line replacement alternatives, as defined, and cease gas service to avoid the gas distribution service line replacement, as specified. The bill would require the commission to exempt from the program the emergency replacement of a gas distribution service line. The bill would require the commission to annually review the program to determine whether adjustments should be made to program design to increase program participation. The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2029, and annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the progress of each implemented program, as provided.

 The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2035.

Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.

Because a violation of a commission action
 implementing the bill’s requirements 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:
 YES 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Home Energy Choice Act.”

SEC. 2.

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

(1) Natural gas demand is already declining as California transitions away from natural gas to zero-emission electric alternatives to achieve the state’s energy efficiency, climate, and air quality objectives.

(2) Without active planning and management, reduced demand for natural gas will result in higher gas rates, with a disproportionate burden on vulnerable customers.

(3) Alternatives that avoid new capital investment in the gas system
 should be pursued where safe, feasible, and cost effective.

(4) California gas corporations replace thousands of gas distribution service lines each year, with the significant majority connected to a single gas meter.

(5) Gas distribution service line replacement costs are paid by all gas customers as capital costs over a period that often exceeds 50 years.

(6) Gas c