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Authors Pérez  
Coauthors: Rubio  
Subject Electricity: electrical infrastructure: permanently abandoned transmission facilities: emergency response: liaisons.
Relating To relating to electricity.
Title An act to amend Section 8386 of, to add Section 762.8 to, and to add Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 8395) to Division 4.1 of, the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
Last Action Dt 2026-01-15
State Amended Senate
Status Pending Referral
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2026-01-26     Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2026-01-26     In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2026-01-22     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (January 22).
2026-01-22     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-01-21     Set for hearing January 22.
2026-01-20     January 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2026-01-15     Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-01-15     Set for hearing January 20.
2026-01-14     From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (January 12).
2026-01-06     Set for hearing January 12.
2026-01-05     From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2026-01-05     Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.
2025-03-12     Referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-02-24     From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-24     Read first time.
2025-02-21     Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Versions
Amended Senate     2026-01-15
Amended Senate     2026-01-05
Introduced     2025-02-21
Analyses TBD
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Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires electrical corporations to construct, maintain, and operate their electrical lines and equipment in a manner that will minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire, as specified. Existing law requires electrical corporations to annually prepare and submit wildfire mitigation plans to the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety for review and approval.

This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2028, to update a general order to require each electrical corporation to remove all permanently abandoned transmission facilities, as specified.

This bill would require that an electrical corporation’s wildfire mitigation plan also include an accounting of all transmission facilities, including permanently abandoned transmission facilities, and include a plan for how and when each permanently abandoned transmission facility will be removed and the wildfire mitigation measures that are being implemented to prevent hazards, as provided.

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

Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services (OES) under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services. Existing law requires OES to establish a standardized emergency management system for use by all emergency response agencies.

This bill would require certain electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, in cooperation with OES and other emergency service agencies, to establish procedures for the coordination of efforts between electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities and their representatives and those of emergency response agencies. The bill would require these electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities to assign liaison representatives to work with each local emergency operations center, as provided.