CA AB 2647

in committee

Energy: nuclear powerplants: assessment.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify thermal powerplants with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more. Existing law prohibits the Energy Commission from certifying a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, except for specified powerplants, and provides that a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, except those specified powerplants, is not a permitted land use in California unless certain conditions are met regarding the existence of technology for the construction and operation of nuclear fuel rod processing plants and of demonstrated technology or means for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, as specified. Existing law, the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018, declares that it is the policy of the state to achieve 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2045. This bill would require the Energy Commission, on or before January 1, 2028, to prepare, as provided, a comprehensive assessment of the potential role for advanced nuclear technologies in supporting critical infrastructure in California, and of the potential for new, in-state nuclear powerplants to cost-effectively meet statewide needs for new electricity resources, and to meet the expressed policy of the state described above. The bill would authorize the Energy Commission to update the assessment as appropriate. The bill would authorize the Energy Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the Independent System Operator, and other public agencies to evaluate the potential of nuclear energy to meet long-term resource needs.

Introduced: 2026-04-06
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-30 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-03-16
Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and U. & E.
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2026-04-06
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-07
Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
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2026-04-13
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2026-04-16
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4663.)
2026-04-16
(Pending re-refer to Com. on U. & E.)
referral-committee
2026-04-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-20
Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
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2026-04-21
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
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2026-04-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-05-06
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2026-05-14
Coauthors revised.
2026-05-14
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2026-05-18
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.)
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2026-05-27
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-06-10
Referred to Com. on E., U & C.
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2026-06-29
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24).
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2026-06-30
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Versions

02/20/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-20Compare
04/06/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-06Compare
04/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-16Compare
06/30/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-30Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy]
2026-04-20 · pass · 11-1
Member-level votes (14)
- Zbur: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Haney: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Garcia: no
- Muratsuchi: other
- Connolly: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-22 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Kalra: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Davies: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Boerner: other
- Hart: other
Do pass.
2026-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
AB 2647 Calderon Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-27 · pass · 73-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Hadwick: yes
- Ward: yes
- Patel: yes
- Hart: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lee: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ta: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Krell: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Boerner: other
- Addis: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Garcia: other
- Connolly: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-24 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Becker: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Stern: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grove: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Allen: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: other
- Wahab: other

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