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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 57: Electrical corporations: data centers: report.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 57 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Electrical corporations: data centers: report. Primary sponsor: Stephen Padilla (D). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (October 11, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 647, Statutes of 2025.

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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. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable.

This bill would authorize the commission to assess the extent to which electrical corporation costs associated with new loads from data centers result in cost shifts to other electrical corporation customers, as provided. The bill would require the commission to submit an assessment completed pursuant to that authorization to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature and to publicly post a copy of the assessment on the commission’s internet website on or before January 1, 2027.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Stephen PadillaPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate18
Jerry McNerneyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate5
Henry SternCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate27

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 647, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3022.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 3358.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  9. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (August 29).
  10. August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  11. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (July 9).

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page