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<ns0:Title> An act to add Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 8510) to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy. </ns0:Title>
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<html:p>Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations (privately owned utilities), while local publicly owned electric utilities and local publicly owned gas utilities (publicly owned utilities) are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to oversee the implementation of certain programs, including the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, by local publicly owned electric utilities. Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would require the PUC, for a privately owned utility, and the Energy Commission, for a publicly owned
utility, to oversee the implementation of a specified program to regulate automated decision systems in connection with certain utility functions. The bill would require privately owned utilities and publicly owned utilities (covered utilities) that employ automated decision systems in the mapping, design, configuration, operation, maintenance, or oversight of electrical or gas infrastructure to maintain a structured process by which qualified personnel are able to modify or override the output of the automated decision systems and to take other specified actions. The bill would prohibit a covered utility from deploying a high-risk automated decision system in its live operational environment unless it files with the PUC or Energy Commission, as appropriate, a safety plan containing certain information, and would require the high-risk automated decision system to operate in staging mode, as provided, before full operational deployment. The bill would require a high-risk automated decision system that
creates, modifies, updates, or purports to correct system records to meet certain requirements. The bill would require a covered utility to report to the PUC or Energy Commission, as appropriate, within 24 hours of discovering any event in which a high-risk automated decision system contributed to or caused certain consequences, including a service interruption or outage affecting more than 500 customers, and would require the covered utility, within 30 days of the event, to submit a root-cause report to the PUC or Energy Commission, as appropriate, that includes certain information. The bill would require a covered utility to continuously monitor its high-risk automated decision systems and to submit an annual report to the PUC or Energy Commission, as appropriate, with certain information. The bill would require a covered utility to provide at least 180 days’ advance notice, as provided, to affected labor organizations and employees in impacted employee classifications before introducing any technological
change involving automated decision systems that materially affects job duties, classifications, staffing levels, or training, and to develop retraining programs, as specified. The bill would prohibit a covered utility from implementing a high-risk automated decision system in its operations that results in the layoff of certain employees unless the covered utility has first exhausted any feasible retraining, redeployment, or reclassification options. The bill would subject a privately owned utility violating its requirements to enforcement pursuant to specified laws. Because the bill would subject a privately owned utility to those specified laws, and because a violation of a PUC action implementing the bill’s requirement would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require a publicly owned utility to annually certify to its governing board and the Energy Commission its compliance with the bill’s requirements and regulations, guidelines, or procedures adopted to
implement the bill’s requirements. By imposing additional duties on local publicly owned electric utilities and local publicly owned gas utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
<html:p>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.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.</html:p>
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<html:p>This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Utility Infrastructure AI Safety, Oversight, and Workforce Protection Act.</html:p>
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(a)
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The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
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(1)
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The electrical and gas infrastructure of the state is vital to public safety, economic stability, and environmental sustainability.
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(2)
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The increasing use of automated decision systems within utility operations, including mapping, design, configuration, control, maintenance, and oversight, introduces new risks to reliability, safety, asset integrity, system-of-record accuracy, and workforce continuity.
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(3)
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Licensed engineers, technical specialists, and field operations personnel possess professional judgment essential to safe
utility operations. Automated decision systems should complement, not replace, that judgment.
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(4)
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Workers in utility operations should have appropriate notice and training opportunities when technological change affects their roles.
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(b)
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In enacting this act, it is the intent of the Legislature to establish consistent statewide standards for the safe, transparent, auditable, and equitable implementation of automated decision systems in utility infrastructure operations.
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Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 8510) is added to Division 4.1 of the
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<html:p>For purposes of this chapter, all of the following definitions apply:</html:p>
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(a)
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(1)
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“Automated decision system” means a computational process, including one derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence, that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, and that is used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons.
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(2)
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“Automated decision system” does not include any of the following:
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(A)
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Spam email filters.
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(B)
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Firewalls.
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(C)
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Antivirus software.
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(D)
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Identity and access management tools.
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(E)
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Calculators.
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(F)
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Databases, datasets, or other compilations of data.
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(b)
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“Covered privately owned utility” means either of the following:
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(1)
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An electrical corporation, as defined in Section 218.
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(2)
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A gas corporation, as defined in Section 222.
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(c)
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“Covered publicly owned utility” means either of the following:
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(1)
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A local publicly owned electric utility, as defined
in Section 224.3.
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(2)
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A publicly owned gas utility.
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(d)
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“Covered utility” means either of the following:
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(1)
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A covered privately owned utility.
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(2)
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A covered publicly owned utility.
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(e)
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“Engineering decision” means a decision, recommendation, or configuration change affecting the design, operation, maintenance, or configuration of electrical circuits, substations, gas pipelines, compressor stations, or other utility infrastructure that is subject to review by, or is required to be performed by, a person licensed under the Professional Engineers Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code).
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(f)
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“High-risk automated decision system” means an automated decision system used by a utility that does any of the following:
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(1)
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Creates or modifies system records, including geographic information system (GIS) layers, asset registers, and configuration logs, used in operational or engineering decisionmaking.
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(2)
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Issues, prepopulates, or prioritizes operational actions, such as switching, fault isolation, circuit reconfiguration, load transfers, or gas-flow adjustments.
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(3)
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Prioritizes safety critical or wildfire risk mitigation decisions, including, any of the following:
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(A)
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Line deenergization or vegetation clearance.
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(B)
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The
classification or escalation of suspected gas leaks or electrical hazards.
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(C)
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Recommendations affecting whether or when emergency response or field personnel dispatch is initiated.
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(4)
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Generates, prioritizes, or recommends either of the following:
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(A)
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Supervisory control and data acquisition.
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(B)
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Control room or operational control actions that alter operating states, including set points, valve lineups, compressor controls, pressure or flow adjustments, alarms, interlocks, or operating limits.
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(5)
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Creates, modifies, or recommends changes to safety critical system-of-record data that governs utility operations, including asset configuration data, isolation or valve lists, lockout or
tagout points or procedures, alarm rationalization data, management of change records, or integrity-related operating parameters.
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(g)
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“Provenance log” means a traceable record that identifies the artificial intelligence model used, its version, its training data source, the time the model output was generated, the identity of any human reviewer, and the actions taken that are approved, modified, or rejected by the human reviewer.
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(h)
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“Staging mode” means the operating mode of a system where changes proposed by an artificial intelligence system are held in a nonoperational environment pending human review, testing, or validation before deployment into the live system.
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(i)
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“System records” means design documents, GIS layers, configuration logs or files, change-management records, mapping files, asset registers, or
other digital or analog records used by a covered utility to design, plan, configure, operate, maintain, or oversee electrical or gas systems.
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(j)
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“Technological change” means the introduction of new or altered technology, equipment, software, automation, or robotics, or a new or altered artificial intelligence application, that alters the type, manner, or amount of work performed by employees of a covered utility.
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(k)
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“Utility mapping system” means a GIS or other digital platform used by a covered utility to record, monitor, design, configure, or manage the layout, configuration, status, or changes of utility infrastructure circuits, pipelines, substations, valves, or other equipment or assets.
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(l)
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“Vendor automated decision system supply chain disclosure” means the documentation provided by a vendor of an automated
decision system that identifies model family, version, training data sources, update cadence, data residency, and known limitations or biases.
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<html:p>The commission shall oversee the implementation of this chapter by a covered privately owned utility. The Energy Commission shall oversee the implementation of this chapter by a covered publicly owned utility. The commission and Energy Commission shall coordinate their actions pursuant to this chapter to ensure that the requirements for covered privately owned utilities and covered publicly owned utilities are consistent.</html:p>
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(a)
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Every covered utility that employs an automated decision system in the mapping, design, configuration, operation, maintenance, or oversight of electrical or gas infrastructure shall maintain a structured process by which qualified personnel are able modify or override the output of the automated decision systems.
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(b)
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A covered utility shall not implement the output of a high-risk automated decision system without prior affirmative human review and approval of that output.
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(c)
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If the output of a high-risk automated decision system constitutes an engineering decision, the human review and approval required by subdivision (b) shall be performed by a California-licensed
professional engineer. The high-risk automated decision system shall function as a decision-support tool and shall not independently execute operational actions or modify system records.
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(d)
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The covered utility shall maintain a provenance log for all automated decision systems outputs and human review actions, including timestamps, model version, training data source, human approver’s identity, modifications and overrides, and outcome of the review.
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(a)
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A covered utility shall not deploy a high-risk automated decision system in its live operational environment unless it first files with the commission or Energy Commission, as appropriate, a safety plan that includes all of the following:
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(1)
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Information about the high-risk automated decision system that includes all of the following:
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(A)
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The model version.
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(B)
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Training data description.
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(C)
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Update cadence.
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Known limitations.
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(E)
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Bias testing.
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(F)
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Cybersecurity controls.
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(G)
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Human-override provisions.
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(H)
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Roll-back features.
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(I)
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Logging capability.
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(2)
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Scenario testing results, including, at minimum, one wildfire or hazard scenario and one distributed energy resource-congestion or equipment-failure scenario, showing system behavior, failsafe behavior, human override, and system recovery.
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(3)
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A plan for monitoring the performance, periodic validation, and retraining or decommissioning of high-risk automated decision systems if performance falls below safety thresholds.
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(b)
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Before full deployment in a covered utility’s operation, the high-risk automated decision system shall operate in staging mode for a minimum of 18 months, or a commission-determined or Energy Commission-determined time period, as appropriate, with all changes audited and human approved before deployment to a live operational environment.
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(c)
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A covered utility shall provide a copy of the safety plan required by subdivision (a) to affected labor organizations upon filing or within 15 days upon request.
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(a)
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A high-risk automated decision system that creates, modifies, updates, or purports to correct system records, including GIS layers, asset registers, and configuration logs, of a covered utility shall do all of the following:
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(1)
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Operate initially in staging mode until human review is complete.
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(2)
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Store proposed changes in a separate environment clearly labeled “proposed by ADS – pending human review” and only be pushed to operational use after human approval.
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(3)
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Maintain a provenance log capturing model, version, training data source, human reviewer identity, review timestamp, modification approval or rejection,
and system version history.
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(4)
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Include a roll-back mechanism enabling restoration of prior versions of system records in the event of a downstream adverse effect or error detection.
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(b)
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The covered utility shall maintain audit trails of all changes stemming from automated decision systems and human review for a minimum of ____ years and make the audit trails available to the commission or Energy commission, as appropriate, upon request.
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(a)
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A covered utility shall report to the commission or Energy Commission, as appropriate, within 24 hours of discovering any event in which a high-risk automated decision system contributed to, or caused, any of the following:
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(1)
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A service interruption or outage affecting more than 500 customers.
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(2)
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Equipment damage, a failure, or a safety hazard.
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(3)
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A misswitching event, incorrect mapping or asset register update, erroneous configuration change, or data-integrity breach with safety or reliability implications.
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(b)
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Within 30 days of the occurrence of
an event specified in subdivision (a), a root-cause report shall be submitted to the commission or Energy Commission, as appropriate, that includes both of the following:
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(1)
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The role of the high-risk automated decision system, vendor model and version of the high-risk automated decision system used, training data source, human oversight steps, and provenance log.
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(2)
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Corrective actions taken, scheduling of remediation, human-override review of the high-risk automated decision system, and actionable changes to safeguards.
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(c)
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A covered privately owned utility shall continuously monitor its high-risk automated decision systems and submit an annual report to the commission on its risk-assessment update, performance versus baseline, any human-override statistics, and any near-misses or
incidents.
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(2)
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A covered publicly owned utility shall continuously monitor its high-risk automated decision systems and submit an annual report to the Energy Commission and to its governing board on its risk-assessment update, performance versus baseline, any human-override statistics, and any near-misses or incidents.
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(a)
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A covered utility shall provide at least 180 days’ advance notice to affected labor organizations and impacted employee classifications before introducing any technological change involving automated decision systems that materially affects job duties, classifications, staffing levels, or required training.
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(b)
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The notice shall include all of the following:
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A description of the proposed technology, its intended function, and a timeline for deployment.
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The anticipated or actual impacts on work processes, staffing, skill sets, and employee classifications.
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A plan for retraining, redeployment, or reassignment of affected employees.
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A demonstration that the proposed technology will not erode the work of licensed engineers, designers, or technical employees, unless retraining and deployment are offered.
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Covered utilities shall develop joint retraining programs, in consultation with employee representatives, to ensure employees can transition to new work roles created by the technological change.
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A covered utility shall not implement a high-risk automated decision system deployment in its operation that results in layoff of employees engaged in engineering decisionmaking, mapping, design, or technical operations unless the covered utility has first exhausted feasible retraining, redeployment, or reclassification options.
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A covered privately owned utility that violates this chapter may be subject to enforcement by the commission under its authority over safe and reliable operations and is subject to penalties under Section 2108, Section 2110, or other applicable provisions of this code.
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A covered publicly owned utility shall annually certify to its governing board and Energy Commission that it is in compliance with this chapter and any adopted regulations, guidelines, or procedures implementing this chapter.
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This chapter establishes minimum safety and governance standards of automated decision systems.
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This chapter does not limit, waive, or alter any rights, remedies, or obligations under state or federal law, including the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. Sec. 151 et seq.), the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code), the Ralph C. Dills Act (Chapter 10.3 (commencing with Section 3512) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code), or any collective bargaining agreement, with respect to technological change, staffing, workload, training, or working conditions.
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No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution.
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