California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2493: Electrical corporations: interconnection: Public Utilities Commission: transmission development monitor.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 769.4 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. electricity Electrical corporations: interconnection: Public Utilities Commission: transmission development monitor. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations…
From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to add Section 769.4 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. electricity Electrical corporations: interconnection: Public Utilities Commission: transmission development monitor. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the commission, if it determines that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of a public utility, or the methods of manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage, or supply used by the public utility, are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate, or insufficient, to determine and fix the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, service, or methods to be observed, furnished, constructed, enforced, or employed. This bill would, within one year following the adoption of a transmission plan by the Independent System Operator through the transmission planning process, or a successor process, or within one year following the execution of a generator interconnection agreement, except as specified, require each large electrical corporation, as defined, or transmission owner, as defined, that is assigned or obligated to construct a project that requires approval by the commission to submit to the below-described transmission development monitor a project-specific schedule for the project, as provided. This bill would require the commission, on or before October 1, 2027, to establish a transmission development monitor within the commission. The bill would require the transmission development monitor to …
Sponsors
- Cottie Petrie-Norris (D, AD73) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 944, Statutes of 2026.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 7009.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 16.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
- : In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- : Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.).
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- : Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Votes
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2493 Petrie-Norris By Stern (August 31, 2026): 30 yea, 10 nay, passed
- AB 2493 Petrie-Norris Concurrence in Senate Amendments (August 31, 2026): 60 yea, 16 nay, passed
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2493 Petrie-Norris By Stern Motion to Reconsider Reconsider (August 26, 2026): 40 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2493 Petrie-Norris By Stern (August 26, 2026): 30 yea, 9 nay, passed
- Do pass as amended (August 13, 2026): 5 yea, 2 nay, passed
- Placed on suspense file (August 3, 2026): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB2493?
- AB2493 is a bill in the California Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Electrical corporations: interconnection: Public Utilities Commission: transmission development monitor.
- What does AB2493 do?
- In its own words: An act to add Section 769.4 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. electricity Electrical corporations: interconnection: Public Utilities Commission: transmission development monitor. Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations…
- What is the status of AB2493?
- Chaptered as of September 30, 2026. Latest action: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 944, Statutes of 2026. (September 30, 2026).
- Who sponsored AB2493?
- Cottie Petrie-Norris (D, AD73).
- Where is the official record for AB2493?
- On the California Legislature website: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2493
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