Electricity.

Existing law relating to electrical restructuring, except as specified, prohibits a person, corporation, electrical corporation, or local publicly owned electric utility or other governmental entity other than a retail customer's existing electric service provider as of December 20, 1995, from providing partial or full electric service to a retail customer of a local publicly owned electric utility unless the customer first confirms in writing an obligation to pay, through tariff or otherwise, to the utility currently providing electric service, a nonbypassable generation-related severance fee or transition charge established by the regulatory body for that utility. Existing law, except as specified, also prohibits a local publicly owned electric utility or other governmental entity from providing partial or full electric service to a retail customer of an electrical corporation, unless the customer of that electrical corporation first confirms in writing an obligation to pay, through tariff or otherwise, to the electrical corporation currently providing electric service, a nonbypassable generation-related transition charge established by the regulatory body for that electrical corporation. Existing law further prohibits a local publicly owned electric utility or an electrical corporation from selling electric power to the retail customers of another local publicly owned electric utility or electrical corporation unless the first utility has agreed to let the 2nd utility make sales of electric power to the retail customers of the first utility. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.