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Measure
Authors Irwin  
Subject Electricity: dynamic pricing: advanced metering infrastructure.
Relating To relating to electricity.
Title An act to add Section 469 to, and to add Chapter 10.3 (commencing with Section 8430) to Division 4.1 of, the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
Last Action Dt 2026-01-07
State Amended Assembly
Status Pending Referral
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Bill Actions
2026-01-27     In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2026-01-26     Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 2.)
2026-01-22     Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
2026-01-22     In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
2026-01-22     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 22).
2026-01-22     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-01-15     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-01-08     Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.
2026-01-07     Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
2026-01-06     From inactive file.
2026-01-06     Ordered to third reading.
2026-01-05     Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Irwin.
2025-09-10     Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Irwin.
2025-09-04     Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 16. Page 2896.)
2025-09-04     Withdrawn from committee.
2025-09-04     Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-01     In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-03-26     In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-03-19     Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-03-18     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-03     Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
2025-02-15     From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
2025-02-14     Read first time. To print.
Versions
Amended Assembly     2026-01-07
Amended Assembly     2025-03-18
Introduced     2025-02-14
Analyses TBD
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Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. 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 require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, to require each electrical corporation to offer optional dynamic pricing tariffs, as specified.

This bill would require the commission to require each electrical corporation, and the governing board of each local publicly owned electric utility, on or before January 1, 2028, to analyze the feasibility of deploying advanced metering infrastructure to all customers. Based on that analysis, the bill would require each electrical corporation and the governing board of each local publicly owned electric utility, on or before January 1, 2029, to develop a plan for complete advanced metering infrastructure deployment, where feasible.

Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.