Energy.

Existing law creates the California Catastrophe Response Council, establishes the California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board, establishes the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, and establishes the Wildfire Safety Division of the Public Utilities Commission. Existing law provides mechanisms for electrical corporations to recover costs and expenses arising from covered wildfires, as defined, establishes the Wildfire Fund to pay eligible claims arising from a covered wildfire, and requires each electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, and electrical cooperative to annually prepare and submit a wildfire mitigation plan. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to provisions related to these entities, mechanisms, and requirements, and the Wildfire Fund. Existing law provides for the financing of energy or water efficiency improvements through the issuance of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds that are secured by a voluntary contractual assessment on property or a special tax on property. This bill would update references to the definition of PACE bonds. The Public Utilities Code defines "Energy Commission" to mean the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission for purposes of that code. This bill would change existing references to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission or the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission in the Public Utilities Code to Energy Commission. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8386.3 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by SB 247 to be operative only if this bill and SB 247 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.