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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                        <ns0:SessionYear>2025</ns0:SessionYear>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Wiener</ns0:AuthorText>
                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR_OPPOSITE">(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Haney and Stefani)</ns0:AuthorText>
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                                <ns0:House>SENATE</ns0:House>
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                                <ns0:Name>Haney</ns0:Name>
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                                <ns0:Contribution>PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR</ns0:Contribution>
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                <ns0:Title> An act relating to energy. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Public utilities: Pacific Gas and Electric Company service area: withdrawal. </ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would authorize cities within the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) service area, including, but not limited to, the City and County of San Francisco, to withdraw and separate from PG&E and either (1) create their own public utility, owned by and accountable to the public and not private shareholders or (2) join an existing municipal utility.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                <html:p>It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would authorize cities within the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) service area, including, but not limited to, the City and County of San Francisco, to withdraw and separate from PG&E and either (a) create their own public utility, owned by and accountable to the public and not private shareholders or (b) join an existing municipal utility.</html:p>
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