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<br />DRAFT 2024 Legislative Positions <br /> <br />9 | P a g e <br />Updated 4.17.2024 <br /> Bill # and Title Description Recommended <br />City Position <br />TVC <br />Position/League <br />Position <br />14 AB 1999 (Irwin) <br /> <br />Electricity: Fixed <br />charges. <br /> <br />Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory <br />authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. <br />Existing law authorizes the commission to adopt new, or expand <br />existing, fixed charges, as defined, for the purpose of collecting a <br />reasonable portion of the fixed costs of providing electrical service <br />to residential customers. Under existing law, the commission may <br />authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to a <br />residential customer account. Existing law requires the commission, <br />no later than July 1, 2024, to authorize a fixed charge for default <br />residential rates. Existing law requires these fixed charges to be <br />established on an income-graduated basis, with no fewer than 3 <br />income thresholds, so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline <br />territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making <br />any changes in usage. This bill would repeal the provisions <br />described in the preceding paragraph. The bill would instead permit <br />the commission to authorize fixe d charges that, as of January 1, <br />2015, do not exceed $5 per residential customer account per month <br />for low-income customers enrolled in the California Alternate Rates <br />for Energy (CARE) program and that do not exceed $10 per <br />residential customer account per month for customers not enrolled <br />in the CARE program. The bill would authorize these maximum <br />allowable fixed charges to be adjusted by no more than the annual <br />percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the prior <br />calendar year, beginning January 1, 2016. This bill contains other <br />related provisions and other existing laws. (Based on text date <br />1/30/2024) <br /> <br />Watch None/Taking to <br />Policy Committee <br /> <br />Ava Community <br />Energy Monitoring <br />and conducting <br />analysis of the bill. <br />Board to make a <br />decision in March. <br />15 AB 2330 (Holden) <br /> <br />Endangered species: <br />authorized take: <br />routine fuel <br />This bill would require the department to, within 90 days of <br />receiving an application, authorize through permits or memorandum <br />of understanding the take of endangered species, threatened <br />species, and candidate species incidental to any routine fuel <br />management activities conducted by local agencies on lands that <br />are within moderate, high, or very high fire hazard severity zones <br />and adjacent to wildland-urban interface fire areas. The bill would <br />Support None/Sponsor- <br />Support <br />Page 78 of 448