20250AB__262398AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-03-16 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Petrie-Norris

An act to amend

Section of the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities. public utilities Public utilities: rate changes: notifications. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities. Existing law, except as provided, prohibits a public utility from making a change in a rate or classification, or in a rule or contract relating to, or affecting, a rate, classification, or service, or in a privilege or facility, unless the public utility provides days’ notice, as specified, to the commission and the public.

Under existing law, a violation of this requirement is a crime. This bill would extend the notice requirement to days’ notice. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Existing law creates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the regulation of air pollution. Existing law authorizes the state board to do those acts as may be necessary for the proper execution of the powers and duties granted to, and imposed upon, the state board.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that authorization.</xhtml:p>"?> MAJORITY NO YES YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: 491. Unless the commission otherwise orders, a change shall not be made by a public utility in a rate or classification, or in a rule or contract relating to, or affecting, a rate, classification, or service, or in a privilege or facility, except after days’ notice to the commission and to the public. Notice shall be given by filing with the commission and keeping open for public inspection new schedules stating plainly the changes to be made in the

schedule or schedules then in force, and the time when the changes will go into effect. The commission, for good cause shown, may allow changes without requiring the days’ notice, by an order specifying the changes that may be made on less than days’ notice, the time when the changes shall take effect, and the manner in which the changes shall be filed and published. If a change is proposed in a rate or classification, or in a form of contract or agreement or in a rule or contract relating to or affecting a rate, classification, or service, or in a privilege or facility, attention shall be directed to the change on the

schedule filed with the commission, by some character to be designated by the commission, immediately preceding or following the item.

SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to

Section of

Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only 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 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of

Section of

Article XIII B of the California Constitution. <caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:HSC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'DIVISION'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'26.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'PART'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'2.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'CHAPTER'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'3.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bcaml%3ANum%3D'39600.'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SECTION" xlink:type="locator">Section of the <caml:DocName>Health and Safety Code</caml:DocName> is amended to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawSection id="id_7A3F3D2F-B644-4C52-AB69-6869C0A42F91"><caml:Num>39600.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_196A7E34-4756-4E0E-8B93-BF5D4F9818FC"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>The state board shall do those acts as may be necessary for the proper execution of the powers and duties granted to, and imposed upon, the state board by this division and by any other law.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection>"?>