CA AB 222
in committeeData centers: power usage effectiveness: cost shifts.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 222 pass?
Not yet. CA AB 222 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 222 about?
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general public. This bill would require the Energy Commission to establish a process for the owner of a data center, as defined, to submit the power usage effectiveness ratio, as defined, for the data center to the Energy Commission on a biannual basis, and require the owner of a data center to submit this information for the data center in the manner and timeframe specified by the Energy Commission. The bill would require the Energy Commission, as part of the 2027 edition of the integrated energy policy report, to include an assessment of electrical load trends for data centers, as provided. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the PUC to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. This bill would require the PUC to assess the extent to which electrical corporation costs associated with new loads from data centers result in cost shifts to other electrical corporation customers, as provided, and require the PUC, on or before January 1, 2027, to submit the assessment to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature and to publicly post a copy of the assessment on the PUC's internet website. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Who sponsors CA AB 222?
Bauer-Kahan is the primary sponsor of CA AB 222.
Description
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report, as specified, and to make the reports accessible to state, local, and federal entities and to the general public. This bill would require the Energy Commission to establish a process for the owner of a data center, as defined, to submit the power usage effectiveness ratio, as defined, for the data center to the Energy Commission on a biannual basis, and require the owner of a data center to submit this information for the data center in the manner and timeframe specified by the Energy Commission. The bill would require the Energy Commission, as part of the 2027 edition of the integrated energy policy report, to include an assessment of electrical load trends for data centers, as provided. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the PUC to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. This bill would require the PUC to assess the extent to which electrical corporation costs associated with new loads from data centers result in cost shifts to other electrical corporation customers, as provided, and require the PUC, on or before January 1, 2027, to submit the assessment to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature and to publicly post a copy of the assessment on the PUC's internet website. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-03
- Latest action
- 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Bauer-Kahanauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-01-08
Read first time. To print.
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2025-01-09
From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
2025-02-18
Referred to Coms. on U. & E. and P. & C.P.
referral-committee
2025-03-26
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-04-03
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (April 2).
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2025-04-07
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-08
Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
referral-committee
2025-05-01
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (May 1).
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2025-05-05
Read second time and amended.
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2025-05-06
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-14
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23).
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2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-05-23
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 1897.)
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2025-06-03
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Coms. on E., U & C. and JUD.
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2025-07-03
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (July 1).
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2025-07-07
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
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2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.
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Votes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection]
2025-04-02 · pass · 13-5
Member-level votes (18)
- Schultz: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Papan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Hart: yes
- Davies: no
- Patterson: no
- Ta: no
- Wallis: no
- Chen: no
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-05-01 · pass · 10-1
Member-level votes (15)
- Irwin: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Patterson: no
- Pellerin: other
- DeMaio: other
- Dixon: other
- Flora: other
Do pass as amended.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-3
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: no
- Dixon: no
- Tangipa: no
- Sanchez: other
AB 222 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-03 · pass · 57-18
Member-level votes (79)
- Addis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Lee: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Krell: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ward: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Fong: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Soria: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Haney: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Berman: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Hoover: no
- Gallagher: no
- Wallis: no
- Chen: no
- Ta: no
- Tangipa: no
- Davies: no
- Ellis: no
- Flora: no
- Alanis: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Macedo: no
- Hadwick: no
- Patterson: no
- Bains: no
- Dixon: no
- DeMaio: no
- Sanchez: no
- Zbur: other
- Castillo: other
- Lackey: other
- Calderon: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-07-01 · pass · 13-3
Member-level votes (17)
- Hurtado: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Allen: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Becker: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Stern: yes
- Limón: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Strickland: no
- Dahle: no
- Grove: no
- Ochoa Bogh: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 11-2
Member-level votes (13)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Valladares: no
- Niello: no
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
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