Bill Text: CA AB3188 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public utility franchises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-17 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. [AB3188 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB3188-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3188

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Introduced by Assembly Member Chen

February 16, 2024

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An act to amend Section 6001 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to franchises.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3188, as introduced, Chen. Public utility franchises.

Existing law authorizes a local government to grant franchises and other privileges to certain public utilities, and requires that those franchises or privileges be granted consistent with specified conditions.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that requirement.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 6001 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

6001.

 (a) Every franchise or privilege to erect or lay telegraph or telephone wires, to construct or operate street or interurban railroads upon on any public street or highway, to lay gas pipes for the purpose of carrying gas for light, heat, or power, to erect poles or wires for transmitting electricity for light, heat, or power, along or upon on any public street or highway, or to exercise any other privilege whatever proposed to be granted by the governing or legislative body of any county, city and county, or city shall be granted upon pursuant to the conditions in this article provided, and not otherwise, article, except when such the franchises are granted pursuant to Chapters Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 6201) or 3 of this division. Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 6451).

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(b) This article does not apply to franchises or privileges for railroads, or telegraph or telephone lines doing an interstate business, or to renewals of franchises for piers, chutes, or wharves, or to community antenna television systems, or to franchises or privileges for purposes not involving the furnishing of any service or commodity to the public or any portion thereof.