This bill allows electric utilities, electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, and wholesale electricity generators to create wildfire mitigation plans that detail their efforts to prevent or reduce wildfire damage. The plans must be approved by each utility's board or city council (for cooperatives and municipal utilities) or filed with the Public Utilities Commission (for other utilities), and the commission will publish them on its website. The bill establishes a framework for these plans but also appears to include liability protections for utilities that follow approved wildfire mitigation plans, though the excerpt cuts off before detailing those protections.
This bill does not directly amend codified state law.
The amendment changed "unintentional" to "unwanted" in the wildfire definition, extended the annual report deadline from April to June first, and added a requirement for utilities to update their wildfire mitigation plans at least once every five years.
The amendment removed filing fees of $500 for wildfire mitigation plans and $250 for annual reports that were previously required to be deposited in the gross receipts tax fund.
The amendment shortened the wildfire mitigation plan update requirement from every five years to every two years.
The amendment changed the bill's chapter designation from 26.558.19 to 26.558.20 and converted it from an engrossed to enrolled version, removing legislative session markup while preserving all substantive provisions.
Other amendments
Signed by the Governor S.J. 541
Delivered to the Governor S.J. 510
Signed by the Speaker H.J. 543
Signed by the President S.J. 485
Senate Concurred in amendments Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 3. S.J. 456
House of Representatives Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 2. H.J. 473
Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0.
Commerce and Energy Motion to amend
Commerce and Energy Scheduled for hearing
First read in House and referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 194
Senate Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 4. S.J. 146
Senate Motion to amend S.J. 145
Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 3. S.J. 2
Commerce and Energy Motion to amend S.J. 1
Commerce and Energy Scheduled for hearing
First read in Senate and referred to Senate Commerce and Energy S.J. 10
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Prime sponsor · Rep.
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Cosponsors
Concurred in amendments
Do Pass Amended
Commerce and Energy — Do Pass Amended
Do Pass Amended
Commerce and Energy — Do Pass Amended