RE: Legislative Update

Since the bills that passed are all Burton/Senate bills, it may be the case that a deal has been cut at the leadership level involving 78 and the other energy-related bills (SB 18 in particular). Scott, Hedy, Bev---Can you do a bit of checking to see if this is the case? Thanks very much.

Best,
Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Govenar [mailto:sgovenar@govadv.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:32 PM
To: Rick Shapiro; Steffes, James D.; Kaufman, Paul; Jeff Dasovich;
Kingerski, Harry; Lawner, Leslie; Susan J Mara; Hedy Govenar; Bev
Hansen; Mike Day
Subject: Legislative Update

SBX2 78 (Polanco) passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee on a
party line vote as amended. I faxed the amendments to Houston and San
Francisco.

SBX2 39 (Speier), which grants the CPUC broad authority over generation
facilities, passed out of the Assembly Energy, Costs and Availability
Committee.

SBX2 18 (Burton), which establishes a dedicated rate component, passed out
of the Assembly Energy, Costs and Availability Committee.

SBX2 85 (Burton), which prevents the CPUC from adopting rate hikes up to or
above levels in effect prior to the imposition of 10% rate reduction, passed
out of the Assembly Energy, Costs and Availability Committee.