AB 1020: Public utilities: energy: taxpayer funding: reporting.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires electrical corporations and gas corporations to submit various information to the commission, and requires the commission to annually report to the Legislature on, among other things, all sources and amounts of funding and actual and proposed expenditures, including any costs to ratepayers, related to entities or programs established by the commission, as specified.

This bill would require each utility, defined as an investor-owned electrical corporation or gas corporation, to report certain information for any taxpayer funding, as defined, greater than or equal to $1,000,000 that the utility has applied for or received. The bill would require the commission, for each application in which a utility is seeking ratepayer funding, to require the utility to report all relevant taxpayer funding greater than or equal to $1,000,000 that the utility is pursuing or has secured, and, if the commission determines that a utility is not in compliance with that requirement, the bill would authorize the commission to impose a penalty against the utility, as specified. The bill would require the commission to require each utility to promptly deliver to ratepayers the financial benefits of taxpayer funding received, as provided.

This bill would require the commission to provide an annual report to the Legislature with a summary of the information on taxpayer funding reported by each utility, including the number of grants or loans, the source of those grants or loans, the dollar amount received, the projects funded by the grants or loans, and the demonstrated ratepayer savings.

The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2036.

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

Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and 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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. August 29, 2025In committee: Held under submission.
2. August 18, 2025In committee: Referred to suspense file.
3. July 16, 2025From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4. June 24, 2025From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.
5. June 18, 2025Referred to Com. on E., U & C.
6. June 4, 2025In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
7. June 3, 2025Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 9. Page 1985.)
8. May 27, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
9. May 23, 2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23).
10. May 14, 2025In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
11. April 24, 2025From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 2.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
12. April 22, 2025Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.