CA SB 473

in committee

Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 473 pass?

Not yet. CA SB 473 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

What is CA SB 473 about?

The California Constitution and the Public Utilities Act vest the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over electrical corporations and water corporations. The act requires the commission to ensure that errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of electrical corporations. This bill would additionally require the commission to ensure that those errors do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of water corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in establishing rates for water service, to consider separate charges for costs associated with customer service, facilities, variable operating costs, or other components of the water service provided to water users. Existing law requires the commission to consider, and authorizes the commission to authorize, a water corporation to establish programs, including rate designs, for achieving conservation of water and recovering the cost of these programs through the rates, as provided. This bill would, for purposes of the above-described rates for water service, require that any changes to rates or implementation of surcharges in accordance with the above-described requirement on the commission to ensure errors in estimates of demand elasticity or sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections of water corporations do not result in revenues above those approved by the commission. Under existing law, a violation of the act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the above requirements would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's requirements would be a crime, 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 a specified reason.

Who sponsors CA SB 473?

Padilla is the primary sponsor of CA SB 473, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Introduced: 2025-02-19
Latest action: 2025-08-29 — August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Committees

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Action timeline

2025-02-19
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-20
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2025-02-26
Referred to Com. on E., U & C.
referral-committee
2025-04-01
Set for hearing April 7.
2025-04-09
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 681.) (April 7).
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2025-04-10
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-17
Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-24
April 28 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-25
Set for hearing May 5.
2025-05-05
May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1201.) (May 23).
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2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-03
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1443.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-04
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Com. on U. & E.
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2025-07-17
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
Coauthors revised.
2025-08-29
August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

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Votes

Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-07 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Grove: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Limón: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Stern: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Becker: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Allen: yes
- Wahab: other
- Strickland: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-05 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
- Wahab: other
3rd Reading
2025-06-03 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Niello: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Grove: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Allen: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Jones: yes
- Limón: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wahab: other
- Reyes: other
- Hurtado: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-16 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Irwin: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Chen: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Hart: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Kalra: other
- Rogers: other
- Harabedian: other

Related bills

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB473

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