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CA SB1476

Bill

Official Source

Status

Passed

9/29/2010

Primary Sponsor

Alex Padilla

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Origin

Senate

2009-2010 Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits electrical and gas corporations from sharing, disclosing, or selling customer energy consumption data to third parties without prior customer consent
  • Requires utilities to implement reasonable security procedures to protect unencrypted customer energy consumption data from unauthorized access or disclosure
  • Bans utilities from offering incentives or discounts to customers for accessing their energy consumption data without explicit prior consent
  • Requires utilities with advanced metering infrastructure to provide customers an option to access their data without agreeing to share personally identifiable information with third parties
  • Applies nearly identical privacy protections to local publicly owned electric utilities regarding electrical consumption data

Legislative Description

Public utilities: customer privacy: advanced metering

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 497, Statutes of 2010.

9/29/2010

Committee Referrals

Appropriations7/1/2010
Judiciary6/15/2010
Appropriations4/19/2010
Judiciary4/6/2010
Energy, Utilities and Communications4/5/2010
Rules2/19/2010

Full Bill Text

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