Public Utilities Commission: reporting.

(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. This bill would correct certain existing references in the Public Utilities Code by revising "electric corporation" to "electrical corporation." (2) Under existing law, the PUC may establish its own procedures, subject to statutory limitations or directions and constitutional requirements of due process. Existing law requires the commission to develop, publish, and annually update an annual work plan access guide that describes the scheduled ratemaking proceedings and other decisions that may be considered by the PUC during the calendar year, as prescribed. Existing law requires the president of the PUC to annually appear before the appropriate policy committees of the Senate and Assembly to report on the annual work plan access guide and to report on the annual report of the PUC on the number of cases where resolution exceeded the time periods prescribed in scoping memos and the days that commissioners presided in hearings. This bill would additionally require the Chair of the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to appear annually before these committees to report on the activities of that commission. (3) The California High Speed Internet Access Act of 1999 (the act) , among other things, requires the PUC to monitor and participate in a specified proceeding of the Federal Communications Commission addressing whether to require incumbent local exchange carriers, as defined, to permit interconnection by competitive data local exchange carriers, as defined, at any technically feasible point, to permit those competitive local exchange carriers to provide high bandwidth data services over telephone lines with voice services provided by incumbent local exchange carriers. This bill would repeal the California High Speed Internet Access Act of 1999. (4) Existing law regulating the provision of telecommunications services requires a local exchange service provider to provide prescribed consumer protections relating to pay-per-use telephone service features and verification of changes in service providers. This bill would revise those provisions to refer to local exchange carriers instead of local exchange service providers. (5) Under existing law, the disclosure of any information by an interexchange telephone corporation, a local exchange telephone corporation, or a provider of commercial mobile radio service, as defined, in good faith compliance with the terms of a state or federal court warrant or order or administrative subpoena issued at the request of a law enforcement official or other federal, state, or local governmental agency for law enforcement purposes, is a complete defense against specified civil actions for the wrongful disclosure of that information. This bill would revise that reference to a local exchange telephone corporation to, instead, refer to a local exchange carrier. (6) This bill would make other technical and nonsubstantive changes.