Scope
Statutes of 2025, chapter 647 (SB 57), the Ratepayer and Technological Innovation Protection Act, adds Public Utilities Code section 913.22, which authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to assess the extent to which electrical corporation costs associated with new loads from data centers result in cost shifts to other customers, and requires any assessment completed under the section to be submitted to the Legislature and posted by 1 January 2027. The section says it is repealed on 1 January 2031.
- Geographic scope
- California
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- California Legislature
Dates
- Adopted
- 11 October 2025
- Effective
- 1 January 2026
- Scheduled expiration
- 1 January 2031
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The section states it is repealed on 1 January 2031. 1 January 2027 is the assessment submission deadline, not an end date.
- Source document
- 11 October 2025
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
California SB 57, approved and chaptered on 11 October 2025 as chapter 647 of 2025, lets the Public Utilities Commission assess whether utility costs tied to new data center loads shift costs to other customers, including procurement, transmission and distribution and stranded-asset costs, and requires any assessment to be sent to the Legislature and posted by 1 January 2027. As a non-urgency 2025 statute it took effect on 1 January 2026, and the section says it is repealed on 1 January 2031. It does not set a tariff.
What this does not establish
- The chaptered text was extracted in an earlier review from the official bulk file pubinfo_2025.zip; for this record the saved copy was checked as unchanged but not re-extracted.
- The effective day of 1 January 2026 is not printed in the text; it comes from the official 2026 legislative calendar entry that statutes take effect 1 January under Article IV, section 8(c).
- 1 January 2027 is the assessment deadline, not an expiration. The Commission rulemaking R.26-04-009 says it will coordinate with this assessment; that rulemaking is a separate record.
- Whether a later statute amended section 913.22 was not checked beyond the 2026 data-center chapters, none of which amends it.
Unresolved questions
- Whether the Commission has completed or posted the assessment was not checked.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
Primary source · Reviewed alternate official source (23 September 2026)
Link status, checked 23 September 2026: The finding was checked against a saved, extracted copy of the California Legislature official 2025-2026 session bulk-data file. The human-readable primary bill page is kept for readers, but its robots.txt disallows automated review.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB57
- 2026 tentative legislative calendar (Senate) basis for the 1 January 2027 effective day of non-urgency 2026 statutes
- California Legislature official session bulk file reviewed for this record actual official bulk evidence reviewed for this record; saved and checked as unchanged