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| 1 | + | Amended IN Assembly July 03, 2024 Amended IN Assembly June 10, 2024 Amended IN Assembly July 10, 2023 Amended IN Assembly June 19, 2023 Amended IN Senate May 02, 2023 Amended IN Senate March 30, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 720Introduced by Senator DurazoFebruary 16, 2023An act to add Section 962 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas corporations.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 720, as amended, Durazo. Gas corporations: safety culture investigations: safety: proceedings: employee organization participation.Existing law requires each gas corporation to develop a plan for the safe and reliable operation of its Public Utilities Commission-regulated gas pipeline facility. Existing law requires the commission and gas corporation to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.This bill would, for safety culture investigation proceedings regarding gas corporations that are opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, require the commission to facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in those investigation proceedings.This bill would require the commission, whenever it opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, to notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and to grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference. If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the bill would require the commission to conduct a new prehearing conference and to notify those employee organizations. The bill would specify that these requirements apply to all safety-related proceedings open as of January 1, 2025.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.(b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments.(c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission failed to provide rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation to filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce.SEC. 2.Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962.For a safety culture investigation proceeding regarding a gas corporation that is opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, the commission shall facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in that investigation proceeding.SEC. 2. Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962. (a) (1) Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference.(2) If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees.(b) Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 3 | + | Amended IN Assembly July 03, 2024 Amended IN Assembly June 10, 2024 Amended IN Assembly July 10, 2023 Amended IN Assembly June 19, 2023 Amended IN Senate May 02, 2023 Amended IN Senate March 30, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 720Introduced by Senator DurazoFebruary 16, 2023An act to add Section 962 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas corporations.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 720, as amended, Durazo. Gas corporations: safety culture investigations: safety: proceedings: employee organization participation.Existing law requires each gas corporation to develop a plan for the safe and reliable operation of its Public Utilities Commission-regulated gas pipeline facility. Existing law requires the commission and gas corporation to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.This bill would, for safety culture investigation proceedings regarding gas corporations that are opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, require the commission to facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in those investigation proceedings.This bill would require the commission, whenever it opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, to notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and to grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference. If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the bill would require the commission to conduct a new prehearing conference and to notify those employee organizations. The bill would specify that these requirements apply to all safety-related proceedings open as of January 1, 2025.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO | |
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| 5 | + | Amended IN Assembly July 03, 2024 Amended IN Assembly June 10, 2024 Amended IN Assembly July 10, 2023 Amended IN Assembly June 19, 2023 Amended IN Senate May 02, 2023 Amended IN Senate March 30, 2023 | |
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| 7 | - | Amended IN Assembly August 19, 2024 | |
| 8 | 7 | Amended IN Assembly July 03, 2024 | |
| 9 | 8 | Amended IN Assembly June 10, 2024 | |
| 10 | 9 | Amended IN Assembly July 10, 2023 | |
| 11 | 10 | Amended IN Assembly June 19, 2023 | |
| 12 | 11 | Amended IN Senate May 02, 2023 | |
| 13 | 12 | Amended IN Senate March 30, 2023 | |
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| 15 | 14 | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION | |
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| 17 | 16 | Senate Bill | |
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| 19 | 18 | No. 720 | |
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| 21 | 20 | Introduced by Senator DurazoFebruary 16, 2023 | |
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| 23 | 22 | Introduced by Senator Durazo | |
| 24 | 23 | February 16, 2023 | |
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| 26 | 25 | An act to add Section 962 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas corporations. | |
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| 28 | 27 | LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 30 | 29 | ## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 32 | - | SB 720, as amended, Durazo. Gas corporations: safety: | |
| 31 | + | SB 720, as amended, Durazo. Gas corporations: safety culture investigations: safety: proceedings: employee organization participation. | |
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| 34 | - | Existing law requires each gas corporation to develop a plan for the safe and reliable operation of its Public Utilities Commission-regulated gas pipeline facility. Existing law requires the commission and gas corporation to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.This bill would require the commission, whenever it opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, to notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and to grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference. If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the bill would require the commission to conduct a new prehearing conference and to notify those employee organizations. The bill would specify that these requirements apply to all safety-related proceedings open as of January 1, 2025. | |
| 33 | + | Existing law requires each gas corporation to develop a plan for the safe and reliable operation of its Public Utilities Commission-regulated gas pipeline facility. Existing law requires the commission and gas corporation to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.This bill would, for safety culture investigation proceedings regarding gas corporations that are opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, require the commission to facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in those investigation proceedings.This bill would require the commission, whenever it opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, to notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and to grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference. If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the bill would require the commission to conduct a new prehearing conference and to notify those employee organizations. The bill would specify that these requirements apply to all safety-related proceedings open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 36 | 35 | Existing law requires each gas corporation to develop a plan for the safe and reliable operation of its Public Utilities Commission-regulated gas pipeline facility. Existing law requires the commission and gas corporation to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce. | |
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| 38 | - | This bill would | |
| 37 | + | This bill would, for safety culture investigation proceedings regarding gas corporations that are opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, require the commission to facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in those investigation proceedings. | |
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| 42 | - | This bill would require a gas corporation, whenever it files a formal application with the commission, to serve the application on all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees labor interests. The bill would require a gas corporation, whenever the commission, on its own motion, opens a formal proceeding to which the gas corporation is a party, to notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees labor interests within 3 days of the gas corporations receipt of service for the proceeding. The bill would authorize the commission to grant party status to the employee organizations after those organizations have filed a motion for party status and would require the commission to allow those organizations to file a notice of intent to claim intervenor compensation after they have been granted party status. | |
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| 44 | - | Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act is a crime. | |
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| 46 | - | Because the above requirements would be part of the Public Utilities Act, a violation of which would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. | |
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| 48 | - | 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. | |
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| 50 | - | This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. | |
| 41 | + | This bill would require the commission, whenever it opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, to notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and to grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference. If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the bill would require the commission to conduct a new prehearing conference and to notify those employee organizations. The bill would specify that these requirements apply to all safety-related proceedings open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 52 | 43 | ## Digest Key | |
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| 54 | 45 | ## Bill Text | |
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| 56 | - | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.(b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments.(c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce.SEC. 2.Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962.(a)(1)Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference.(2)If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees.(b)Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
| 47 | + | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.(b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments.(c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission failed to provide rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation to filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce.SEC. 2.Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962.For a safety culture investigation proceeding regarding a gas corporation that is opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, the commission shall facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in that investigation proceeding.SEC. 2. Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962. (a) (1) Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference.(2) If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees.(b) Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 58 | 49 | The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 60 | 51 | ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 62 | - | SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.(b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments.(c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce. | |
| 53 | + | SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.(b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments.(c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission failed to provide rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation to filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce. | |
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| 64 | - | SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.(b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments.(c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce. | |
| 55 | + | SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.(b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments.(c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission failed to provide rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation to filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce. | |
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| 66 | 57 | SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: | |
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| 68 | 59 | ### SECTION 1. | |
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| 70 | 61 | (a) Subdivision (e) of Section 961 of the Public Utilities Code requires the Public Utilities Commission to provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce. | |
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| 72 | 63 | (b) That provision was intended to include employee organizations representing the gas corporation workforce in safety culture assessments. | |
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| 74 | - | (c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce. | |
| 65 | + | (c) In commission Investigation 19-06-014 (June 27, 2019), Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissions Own Motion to Determine Whether Southern California Gas Companys and Sempra Energys Organizational Culture and Governance Prioritize Safety (U904G), the commission failed to provide rejected the notice of intent to seek intervenor compensation to filed by an impacted employee organization, thus leading to inadequate representation for the gas corporation workforce. | |
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| 71 | + | For a safety culture investigation proceeding regarding a gas corporation that is opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, the commission shall facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in that investigation proceeding. | |
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| 84 | - | (2)If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees. | |
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| 88 | - | (b)Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 92 | - | SEC. 2. Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962. (a) (1) Whenever a gas corporation files a formal application with the commission, the gas corporation shall serve the application on all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees labor interests.(2) The commission may grant party status to the employee organizations in a gas corporation proceeding after those organizations have filed a motion for party status and shall allow those organizations to file a notice of intent to claim compensation pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1804 after they have been granted party status.(b) (1) Whenever the commission, on its own motion, opens a formal proceeding to which a gas corporation is a party, the gas corporation shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees labor interests within three days of the gas corporations receipt of service for the proceeding.(2) The commission may grant party status to the employee organizations in a gas corporation proceeding after those organizations have filed a motion for party status and shall allow those organizations to file a notice of intent to claim compensation pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1804 after they have been granted party status. | |
| 75 | + | SEC. 2. Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962. (a) (1) Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference.(2) If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees.(b) Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 94 | 77 | SEC. 2. Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read: | |
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| 96 | 79 | ### SEC. 2. | |
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| 98 | - | 962. (a) (1) Whenever a gas corporation | |
| 81 | + | 962. (a) (1) Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference.(2) If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees.(b) Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 100 | - | 962. (a) (1) Whenever a gas corporation | |
| 83 | + | 962. (a) (1) Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference.(2) If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees.(b) Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 102 | - | 962. (a) (1) Whenever a gas corporation | |
| 85 | + | 962. (a) (1) Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference.(2) If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees.(b) Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. | |
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| 106 | - | 962. (a) (1) Whenever a gas corporation | |
| 89 | + | 962. (a) (1) Whenever the commission opens a proceeding related directly or indirectly to gas corporation safety, the commission shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees and shall grant party status to those organizations before the first prehearing conference. | |
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| 108 | - | (2) The commission | |
| 91 | + | (2) If the commission conducts a phase, track, or other part of a safety-related proceeding subsequent to the initial phase, track, or part, the commission shall conduct a new prehearing conference and shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees. | |
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| 110 | - | (b) (1) Whenever the commission, on its own motion, opens a formal proceeding to which a gas corporation is a party, the gas corporation shall notify all employee organizations representing the gas corporations employees labor interests within three days of the gas corporations receipt of service for the proceeding. | |
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| 112 | - | (2) The commission may grant party status to the employee organizations in a gas corporation proceeding after those organizations have filed a motion for party status and shall allow those organizations to file a notice of intent to claim compensation pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1804 after they have been granted party status. | |
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| 114 | - | SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB 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 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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| 116 | - | SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB 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 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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| 118 | - | SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIIIB 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 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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| 120 | - | ### SEC. 3. | |
| 93 | + | (b) Subdivision (a) applies to all safety-related proceedings that are open as of January 1, 2025. |