Amended IN Senate May 17, 2019 Amended IN Senate April 02, 2019 Amended IN Senate March 20, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 255Introduced by Senator BradfordFebruary 12, 2019 An act to amend Section 8283 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 255, as amended, Bradford. Women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement: electric service providers: energy storage system companies: community choice aggregators.Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature.Existing law defines an electric service provider as an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, excluding electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and certain cogenerators. Existing law requires that electric service providers register with the commission and provides for the authorization of direct transactions between electric service providers and end-use customers.Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator to aggregate the electrical load of electricity consumers within its boundaries and provides that the community choice aggregator is solely responsible for all generation procurement activities on behalf of the community choice aggregators customers, except where other generation procurement arrangements are expressly authorized by statute. Existing law requires a community choice aggregator to develop, adopt, and file with the commission an implementation plan detailing the process and consequences of aggregation and containing specified information.Existing law directs the commission to require every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, in all categories, including a renewable energy project, as defined, and wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, and rail projects. Existing law requires the reporting of certain information about the implementation of the plans.This bill would change the $25,000,000 annual gross revenue threshold above which these requirements become applicable to $1,000,000 $15,000,000 in gross annual California revenues, and would extend these requirements to electric service providers, certain wholesale generators selling electricity to retail sellers, distributed energy resource contractors, and energy storage system companies, as specified. The bill would additionally include energy storage system and vegetation management projects within the enumerated projects to which these requirements apply. The bill would require the Contractors State License Board to assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.This bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects. The bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the bills expanded requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Because the bill would impose reporting requirements upon community choice aggregators, which are entities of local government, the 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 specified reasons.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 8283 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:8283. (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to submit annually a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(b) These annual plans shall include short- and long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, and shall include methods for encouraging both prime contractors and grantees to engage women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in subcontracts in all categories that provide subcontracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(c) The commission shall establish guidelines for all electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, exempt wholesale generators contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractors, energy storage system companies, and telephone corporations with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to be utilized in establishing programs pursuant to this article.(d) Every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission shall require, and at the time that the commission shall annually designate.(e) (1) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(2) (A) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(B) The report shall be in a form that the commission may require and shall be submitted by an annual date that the commission shall designate, consistent with other reports required by this section.(C) The report shall include women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises with whom a prime contractor or grantee of a community choice aggregator has engaged in contracts or subcontracts for all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(f) (1) The Legislature declares that each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement in all categories.(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation and direct broadcast satellite provider is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area to the Legislature on an annual basis.(3) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (e) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories.(g) The Contractors State License Board shall assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.(h) Pursuant to this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) Distributed energy resource contractor means any corporation or other business entity that employs anyone licensed by the Contractors State License Board to perform installations of distributed energy resources, as defined in Section 8370.(2) Energy storage system company means any person or corporation operating a centralized or distributed energy storage system, as defined in Section 2835, that furnishes electricity to an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California, or that supplies electricity to a retail end-use customer of an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California.(3) Other business entity has the same meaning as defined in Section 174.5 of the Corporations Code.SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because 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 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
Amended IN Senate May 17, 2019 Amended IN Senate April 02, 2019 Amended IN Senate March 20, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 255Introduced by Senator BradfordFebruary 12, 2019 An act to amend Section 8283 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 255, as amended, Bradford. Women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement: electric service providers: energy storage system companies: community choice aggregators.Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature.Existing law defines an electric service provider as an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, excluding electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and certain cogenerators. Existing law requires that electric service providers register with the commission and provides for the authorization of direct transactions between electric service providers and end-use customers.Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator to aggregate the electrical load of electricity consumers within its boundaries and provides that the community choice aggregator is solely responsible for all generation procurement activities on behalf of the community choice aggregators customers, except where other generation procurement arrangements are expressly authorized by statute. Existing law requires a community choice aggregator to develop, adopt, and file with the commission an implementation plan detailing the process and consequences of aggregation and containing specified information.Existing law directs the commission to require every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, in all categories, including a renewable energy project, as defined, and wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, and rail projects. Existing law requires the reporting of certain information about the implementation of the plans.This bill would change the $25,000,000 annual gross revenue threshold above which these requirements become applicable to $1,000,000 $15,000,000 in gross annual California revenues, and would extend these requirements to electric service providers, certain wholesale generators selling electricity to retail sellers, distributed energy resource contractors, and energy storage system companies, as specified. The bill would additionally include energy storage system and vegetation management projects within the enumerated projects to which these requirements apply. The bill would require the Contractors State License Board to assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.This bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects. The bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the bills expanded requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Because the bill would impose reporting requirements upon community choice aggregators, which are entities of local government, the 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 specified reasons.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES
Amended IN Senate May 17, 2019 Amended IN Senate April 02, 2019 Amended IN Senate March 20, 2019
Amended IN Senate May 17, 2019
Amended IN Senate April 02, 2019
Amended IN Senate March 20, 2019
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill No. 255
Introduced by Senator BradfordFebruary 12, 2019
Introduced by Senator Bradford
February 12, 2019
An act to amend Section 8283 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 255, as amended, Bradford. Women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement: electric service providers: energy storage system companies: community choice aggregators.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature.Existing law defines an electric service provider as an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, excluding electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and certain cogenerators. Existing law requires that electric service providers register with the commission and provides for the authorization of direct transactions between electric service providers and end-use customers.Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator to aggregate the electrical load of electricity consumers within its boundaries and provides that the community choice aggregator is solely responsible for all generation procurement activities on behalf of the community choice aggregators customers, except where other generation procurement arrangements are expressly authorized by statute. Existing law requires a community choice aggregator to develop, adopt, and file with the commission an implementation plan detailing the process and consequences of aggregation and containing specified information.Existing law directs the commission to require every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, in all categories, including a renewable energy project, as defined, and wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, and rail projects. Existing law requires the reporting of certain information about the implementation of the plans.This bill would change the $25,000,000 annual gross revenue threshold above which these requirements become applicable to $1,000,000 $15,000,000 in gross annual California revenues, and would extend these requirements to electric service providers, certain wholesale generators selling electricity to retail sellers, distributed energy resource contractors, and energy storage system companies, as specified. The bill would additionally include energy storage system and vegetation management projects within the enumerated projects to which these requirements apply. The bill would require the Contractors State License Board to assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.This bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects. The bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the bills expanded requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Because the bill would impose reporting requirements upon community choice aggregators, which are entities of local government, the 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 specified reasons.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature.
Existing law defines an electric service provider as an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, excluding electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and certain cogenerators. Existing law requires that electric service providers register with the commission and provides for the authorization of direct transactions between electric service providers and end-use customers.
Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator to aggregate the electrical load of electricity consumers within its boundaries and provides that the community choice aggregator is solely responsible for all generation procurement activities on behalf of the community choice aggregators customers, except where other generation procurement arrangements are expressly authorized by statute. Existing law requires a community choice aggregator to develop, adopt, and file with the commission an implementation plan detailing the process and consequences of aggregation and containing specified information.
Existing law directs the commission to require every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, in all categories, including a renewable energy project, as defined, and wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, and rail projects. Existing law requires the reporting of certain information about the implementation of the plans.
This bill would change the $25,000,000 annual gross revenue threshold above which these requirements become applicable to $1,000,000 $15,000,000 in gross annual California revenues, and would extend these requirements to electric service providers, certain wholesale generators selling electricity to retail sellers, distributed energy resource contractors, and energy storage system companies, as specified. The bill would additionally include energy storage system and vegetation management projects within the enumerated projects to which these requirements apply. The bill would require the Contractors State License Board to assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.
This bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects. The bill would require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding $1,000,000 $15,000,000 to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.
Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.
Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the bills expanded requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Because the bill would impose reporting requirements upon community choice aggregators, which are entities of local government, the 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 specified reasons.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 8283 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:8283. (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to submit annually a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(b) These annual plans shall include short- and long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, and shall include methods for encouraging both prime contractors and grantees to engage women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in subcontracts in all categories that provide subcontracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(c) The commission shall establish guidelines for all electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, exempt wholesale generators contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractors, energy storage system companies, and telephone corporations with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to be utilized in establishing programs pursuant to this article.(d) Every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission shall require, and at the time that the commission shall annually designate.(e) (1) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(2) (A) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(B) The report shall be in a form that the commission may require and shall be submitted by an annual date that the commission shall designate, consistent with other reports required by this section.(C) The report shall include women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises with whom a prime contractor or grantee of a community choice aggregator has engaged in contracts or subcontracts for all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(f) (1) The Legislature declares that each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement in all categories.(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation and direct broadcast satellite provider is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area to the Legislature on an annual basis.(3) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (e) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories.(g) The Contractors State License Board shall assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.(h) Pursuant to this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) Distributed energy resource contractor means any corporation or other business entity that employs anyone licensed by the Contractors State License Board to perform installations of distributed energy resources, as defined in Section 8370.(2) Energy storage system company means any person or corporation operating a centralized or distributed energy storage system, as defined in Section 2835, that furnishes electricity to an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California, or that supplies electricity to a retail end-use customer of an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California.(3) Other business entity has the same meaning as defined in Section 174.5 of the Corporations Code.SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because 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 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 8283 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:8283. (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to submit annually a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(b) These annual plans shall include short- and long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, and shall include methods for encouraging both prime contractors and grantees to engage women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in subcontracts in all categories that provide subcontracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(c) The commission shall establish guidelines for all electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, exempt wholesale generators contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractors, energy storage system companies, and telephone corporations with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to be utilized in establishing programs pursuant to this article.(d) Every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission shall require, and at the time that the commission shall annually designate.(e) (1) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(2) (A) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(B) The report shall be in a form that the commission may require and shall be submitted by an annual date that the commission shall designate, consistent with other reports required by this section.(C) The report shall include women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises with whom a prime contractor or grantee of a community choice aggregator has engaged in contracts or subcontracts for all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(f) (1) The Legislature declares that each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement in all categories.(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation and direct broadcast satellite provider is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area to the Legislature on an annual basis.(3) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (e) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories.(g) The Contractors State License Board shall assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.(h) Pursuant to this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) Distributed energy resource contractor means any corporation or other business entity that employs anyone licensed by the Contractors State License Board to perform installations of distributed energy resources, as defined in Section 8370.(2) Energy storage system company means any person or corporation operating a centralized or distributed energy storage system, as defined in Section 2835, that furnishes electricity to an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California, or that supplies electricity to a retail end-use customer of an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California.(3) Other business entity has the same meaning as defined in Section 174.5 of the Corporations Code.
SECTION 1. Section 8283 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
8283. (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to submit annually a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(b) These annual plans shall include short- and long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, and shall include methods for encouraging both prime contractors and grantees to engage women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in subcontracts in all categories that provide subcontracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(c) The commission shall establish guidelines for all electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, exempt wholesale generators contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractors, energy storage system companies, and telephone corporations with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to be utilized in establishing programs pursuant to this article.(d) Every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission shall require, and at the time that the commission shall annually designate.(e) (1) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(2) (A) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(B) The report shall be in a form that the commission may require and shall be submitted by an annual date that the commission shall designate, consistent with other reports required by this section.(C) The report shall include women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises with whom a prime contractor or grantee of a community choice aggregator has engaged in contracts or subcontracts for all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(f) (1) The Legislature declares that each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement in all categories.(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation and direct broadcast satellite provider is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area to the Legislature on an annual basis.(3) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (e) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories.(g) The Contractors State License Board shall assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.(h) Pursuant to this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) Distributed energy resource contractor means any corporation or other business entity that employs anyone licensed by the Contractors State License Board to perform installations of distributed energy resources, as defined in Section 8370.(2) Energy storage system company means any person or corporation operating a centralized or distributed energy storage system, as defined in Section 2835, that furnishes electricity to an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California, or that supplies electricity to a retail end-use customer of an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California.(3) Other business entity has the same meaning as defined in Section 174.5 of the Corporations Code.
8283. (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to submit annually a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(b) These annual plans shall include short- and long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, and shall include methods for encouraging both prime contractors and grantees to engage women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in subcontracts in all categories that provide subcontracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(c) The commission shall establish guidelines for all electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, exempt wholesale generators contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractors, energy storage system companies, and telephone corporations with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to be utilized in establishing programs pursuant to this article.(d) Every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission shall require, and at the time that the commission shall annually designate.(e) (1) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(2) (A) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(B) The report shall be in a form that the commission may require and shall be submitted by an annual date that the commission shall designate, consistent with other reports required by this section.(C) The report shall include women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises with whom a prime contractor or grantee of a community choice aggregator has engaged in contracts or subcontracts for all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(f) (1) The Legislature declares that each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement in all categories.(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation and direct broadcast satellite provider is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area to the Legislature on an annual basis.(3) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (e) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories.(g) The Contractors State License Board shall assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.(h) Pursuant to this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) Distributed energy resource contractor means any corporation or other business entity that employs anyone licensed by the Contractors State License Board to perform installations of distributed energy resources, as defined in Section 8370.(2) Energy storage system company means any person or corporation operating a centralized or distributed energy storage system, as defined in Section 2835, that furnishes electricity to an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California, or that supplies electricity to a retail end-use customer of an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California.(3) Other business entity has the same meaning as defined in Section 174.5 of the Corporations Code.
8283. (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to submit annually a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(b) These annual plans shall include short- and long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, and shall include methods for encouraging both prime contractors and grantees to engage women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in subcontracts in all categories that provide subcontracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.(c) The commission shall establish guidelines for all electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, exempt wholesale generators contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractors, energy storage system companies, and telephone corporations with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to be utilized in establishing programs pursuant to this article.(d) Every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission shall require, and at the time that the commission shall annually designate.(e) (1) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(2) (A) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(B) The report shall be in a form that the commission may require and shall be submitted by an annual date that the commission shall designate, consistent with other reports required by this section.(C) The report shall include women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises with whom a prime contractor or grantee of a community choice aggregator has engaged in contracts or subcontracts for all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.(f) (1) The Legislature declares that each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement in all categories.(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation and direct broadcast satellite provider is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area to the Legislature on an annual basis.(3) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (e) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories.(g) The Contractors State License Board shall assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.(h) Pursuant to this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) Distributed energy resource contractor means any corporation or other business entity that employs anyone licensed by the Contractors State License Board to perform installations of distributed energy resources, as defined in Section 8370.(2) Energy storage system company means any person or corporation operating a centralized or distributed energy storage system, as defined in Section 2835, that furnishes electricity to an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California, or that supplies electricity to a retail end-use customer of an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California.(3) Other business entity has the same meaning as defined in Section 174.5 of the Corporations Code.
8283. (a) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to submit annually a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.
(b) These annual plans shall include short- and long-term goals and timetables, but not quotas, and shall include methods for encouraging both prime contractors and grantees to engage women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in subcontracts in all categories that provide subcontracting opportunities, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, vegetation management, and rail projects.
(c) The commission shall establish guidelines for all electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, wireless telecommunications service providers, electric service providers, exempt wholesale generators contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractors, energy storage system companies, and telephone corporations with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000), fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to be utilized in establishing programs pursuant to this article.
(d) Every electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission shall require, and at the time that the commission shall annually designate.
(e) (1) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan to the commission for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.
(2) (A) The commission shall require each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000) fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to annually submit a report to the commission regarding its procurement from women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises in all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.
(B) The report shall be in a form that the commission may require and shall be submitted by an annual date that the commission shall designate, consistent with other reports required by this section.
(C) The report shall include women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises with whom a prime contractor or grantee of a community choice aggregator has engaged in contracts or subcontracts for all categories, including, but not limited to, renewable energy, energy storage system, and smart grid projects.
(f) (1) The Legislature declares that each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, energy storage system company, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement in all categories.
(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation and direct broadcast satellite provider is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprise procurement and to voluntarily report activity in this area to the Legislature on an annual basis.
(3) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator that is not required to submit a plan pursuant to subdivision (e) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing procurement from small, local, and diverse business enterprises in all categories.
(g) The Contractors State License Board shall assist the commission in identifying and developing contact information for distributed energy resource contractors.
(h) Pursuant to this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) Distributed energy resource contractor means any corporation or other business entity that employs anyone licensed by the Contractors State License Board to perform installations of distributed energy resources, as defined in Section 8370.
(2) Energy storage system company means any person or corporation operating a centralized or distributed energy storage system, as defined in Section 2835, that furnishes electricity to an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California, or that supplies electricity to a retail end-use customer of an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, community choice aggregator, or electric service provider within California.
(3) Other business entity has the same meaning as defined in Section 174.5 of the Corporations Code.
SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because 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 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because 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 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because 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 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
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