Public utilities: procurement from women-, minority-, disabled veteran-owned, and LGBT business enterprises.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, telephone corporations, and water corporations. Existing law directs the Public Utilities Commission to require every electrical, gas, water, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women-, minority-, disabled veteran-owned, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, in all categories, including renewable energy, wireless telecommunications, broadband, smart grid, and rail projects, and to require the reporting by those corporations of certain related information. Existing law includes legislative findings and declarations relative to the goals of, and reasons for, increasing procurement from women-, minority-, disabled veteran-owned, and LGBT business enterprises. This bill would make a nonsubstantive revision to the findings and declarations.