Electricity: calculation methodology: nonbypassable charges: data disclosure.

Header updated to reflect final passage: Assembly passed August 26, 2026, Senate passed August 25, 2026, and a Governor approval block was added.

Coauthor names (Assembly Members Bauer-Kahan, Boerner, Connolly, Petrie-Norris, Ward; Senator Arreguin) were removed from the enrolled version, which is standard practice.

Line numbering was removed and formatting/indentation was adjusted throughout to conform to enrolled bill style.

The bill now applies only to 'nonbypassable charges' rather than 'any charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity.' Nonbypassable charges are those that cannot be avoided by customers who purchase power from alternative suppliers (unbundled customers). This narrows the bill's reach significantly.

The legislative counsel's digest title changed from 'calculation methodology: data disclosure' to 'nonbypassable charges: data disclosure,' reflecting the narrowed focus of the bill.

Member associations and load-serving entities are now explicitly listed as parties required to make data available when submitting proposals or analyses, in addition to electrical corporations. Previously only 'an electrical corporation or other party' was named.

A new subdivision (c) requires that all disclosed data exclude any information that can reasonably be used to identify an individual, family, household, residence, or nonresidential customer. This is a new privacy safeguard not present in the Assembly version.

The definition of covered charges now explicitly includes charges 'collected from unbundled customers,' clarifying that the bill targets costs passed through to customers who buy power from alternative suppliers rather than just any charge on bundled customers.

The definition of covered charges was expanded from 'the cost of contracts or resources owned by an electrical corporation or any value derived from that calculation' to 'costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs.' This brings explicitly into scope the costs of power plants owned by investor-owned utilities and any downstream charges built on top of those costs.

A new subdivision (c) defines 'charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity' to include any charge under Section 366.2(f), (g), or (h), and any other commission-authorized charge to recover costs of contracts or resources procured for bundled customers, regardless of whether expressly enumerated. This is an anti-evasion clause preventing utilities from avoiding disclosure by labeling charges differently.

The trigger for disclosure was expanded from 'any decision or ruling' to 'any decision or ruling, ruling issued by the commission,' and the language was changed from 'data relied on' to 'data relied on in serving as a basis for,' clarifying the standard.

A new subdivision (b) requires the commission to mandate that electrical corporations or other parties make all data serving as a basis for their proposal or analysis available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates at the time of submission, not just after a decision is made.

A new subdivision (e) provides that a failure to comply with the data disclosure requirements, or the identification of good faith errors, omissions, or inaccuracies in disclosed data, shall not by itself invalidate, impair, stay, or otherwise affect the validity of any calculation methodology, charge, decision, or ruling adopted by the commission, unless it meets the specific grounds in Section 1757 or 1757.1.

A new subdivision (f) explicitly defines 'load-serving entity' as having the same meaning as in Section 380, removing ambiguity about which entities are covered.