BILL NUMBER: AB 940	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 326.5 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 940, as introduced, Bradford. Public Utilities Commission:
report.
   The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission
to report annually to specified legislative committees on funding and
expenditures related to certain entities and programs.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 326.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   326.5.  By  January 10, 2009, and by  January 10
of each year  thereafter  , the commission shall
report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and appropriate
fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature, on all sources and
amounts of funding and actual and proposed expenditures, both in the
two prior fiscal years and for the proposed fiscal year, including
any costs to ratepayers, related to both of the following:
   (a) Entities or programs established by the commission by order,
decision, motion, settlement, or other action, including, but not
limited to, the California Clean Energy Fund, the California Emerging
Technology Fund, and the Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands
Stewardship Council. The report shall contain descriptions of
relevant issues, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

   (1) Any governance structure established for an entity or program.

   (2) Any staff or employees hired by or for the entity or program
 ,  and their salaries and expenses.
   (3) Any staff or employees transferred or loaned internally or
interdepartmentally for the entity or program  ,  and their
salaries and expenses.
   (4) Any contracts entered into by the entity or program, the
funding sources for those contracts, and the legislative authority
under which the commission entered into the contract.
   (5) The public process and oversight governing the entity or
program's activities.
   (b) Entities or programs established by the commission, other than
those expressly authorized by statute, under the following sections:

   (1) Section 379.6.
   (2) Section 399.8.
   (3) Section 739.1.
   (4) Section 2790.
   (5) Section 2851.