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<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Becker</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 381 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Electrical corporations: nonbypassable charge.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law requires each electrical corporation to identify a separate rate component that is required to be a nonbypassable element of the local distribution service. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to allocate these funds for certain programs that enhance system reliability and provide in-state benefits.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter requirement.</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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(a)
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To ensure that the funding for the programs described in subdivision (b) and Section 382 are not commingled with other revenues, the commission shall require each electrical corporation to identify a separate rate component to collect the revenues used to fund these programs. The rate component shall be a nonbypassable element of the local distribution service.
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(b)
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(1)
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The commission shall allocate funds collected pursuant to subdivision (a), and any interest earned on collected funds, to programs that enhance system reliability and provide in-state benefits as follows:
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(A)
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Cost-effective energy efficiency and conservation activities.
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(B)
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Public interest research and development not adequately provided by competitive and regulated markets.
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(C)
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In-state
operation and development of existing and new and emerging eligible renewable energy resources, as defined in Section 399.12.
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(2)
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The commission shall order the respective electrical corporations to collect and spend these funds at the levels and for the purposes required in Section 399.8.
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(3)
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Each electrical corporation shall allow
customers to make voluntary contributions through their utility bill payments as either a fixed amount or a variable amount to support programs established pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1). Funds collected by electrical corporations for these purposes shall be forwarded in a timely manner to the appropriate fund as specified by the commission.
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