Video & Transcript Research : 'Hawaii PUC'
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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session May 26th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill also would require the PUC to consider and make findings related to electrical utility wildfire
- So this is about trying to add some additional transparency during rate making to ensure that the PUC
- This bill directs the PUC to establish tariffing that would consider those costs and allocate them to
- For example, it requires the PUC to establish clear performance metrics on things that we should know
- The bill also authorizes the PUC to give utilities a lower return on equity for certain categories of
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum, approved prior journals, and moved through confirmations and floor items. Doreen DiAmico was confirmed to the State Water Resources Control Board by a 34-1 vote, Dr. Anne Maria de Mars was confirmed to the State Athletic Commission by 36-0, and Ronald Fiore was confirmed to the State Athletic Commission by 36-0. The body then took up SB 73 on election security, with supporters arguing it would protect ballot chain of custody and prevent intimidation or unauthorized access to voting materials, while opponents raised concerns about transparency, federal preemption, and the bill’s impact on investigations. SB 73 passed on concurrence and urgency with 29 ayes and 8 noes on both the urgency clause and the measure.
The Senate also approved SB 929 on annual Energy Commission oversight (37-0), SB 1370 on wildfire-related testimony/oversight (28-5), SB 983 authorizing Port of San Diego job order contracting (28-8), SB 1367 restricting local approval of new or converted private detention facilities (28-8), SB 1257 requiring annual reporting on immigration enforcement incidents (28-8), and SB 1103 requiring large home improvement retailers to report immigration enforcement activity and related records (23-8). SB 1399, which removes the sunset on DOJ reviews of immigration detention facilities, passed 28-7, and SB 873, “ICE Out of Courts,” passed 28-7 to limit arrests near courthouses without a judicial warrant.
Later, the Senate passed SB 1292 creating a pilot for camera- or sensor-based curb management with human review and privacy safeguards, despite opposition over privacy and automation concerns, by 28-7. SB 878 strengthened prompt-payment insurance penalties for delayed claims after disasters and passed 29-6. SB 958, a CEQA clarification related to housing and building height impacts, passed unanimously 37-0. SB 924 modernized low-income energy assistance services and passed 35-1. SB 1057 on certification for nurse assistants and home health aides passed, as did SB 1092 giving mobile home residents a chance to bid on park sales (29-7), SB 1123 requiring agencies to consider consumer and other benefits in rulemaking (26-8), SB 1233 increasing utility rate transparency (29-8), SB 1237 strengthening pay data reporting enforcement (28-6), SB 886 shifting data center infrastructure costs away from existing ratepayers (28-6), SB 905 reforming utility incentives and performance metrics (28-8), and SB 909 strengthening public works wage enforcement (28-7). The final item shown, SB 925 on fusion energy roadmap development, passed unanimously 37-0, while SB 954 on CEQA and advanced manufacturing drew extensive debate over environmental guardrails versus economic competitiveness; the transcript cuts off during closing remarks before the vote is shown.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Rules Committee May 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- who knew that you wanted a public district to go into a company that's private, but that allows the PUC
- In the aftermath of that tragedy, it was revealed that the PUC president had been having inappropriate
- The Energy Commission and PUC were absolutely a part of working on the value of a potential regional
- And since then, the PUC has done an extraordinary amount of procurement through their processes.
- So that required CAISO, CARB, CEC, and PUC to be a single unit as we plan these things.
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Rules first handled several routine actions, including approving three governor’s appointments not required to appear: Anthony Surich as Executive Director of the California Housing Finance Agency, Craig Snelling J.D. to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, and Nicholas Mueller to the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. The committee also approved referral of bills to committees, all by 4-0 votes. It then took up appointments requiring testimony, beginning with Jereen DiAdamo to the State Water Resources Control Board.
DiAdamo focused her remarks on safe drinking water, groundwater sustainability, conservation, and Bay-Delta restoration. She said the number of Californians without safe drinking water has fallen from 1.6 million to 800,000 since 2019, credited the SAFER program, technical assistance, and mandatory consolidation authority, and described ongoing work on failing and at-risk systems, domestic well mitigation, SGMA implementation, and the Bay-Delta Plan. Senators pressed her on audit follow-up, measurable goals for reducing the remaining unsafe systems, funding uncertainty, and concerns from environmental and tribal groups that the board has favored water users over ecosystem protections. Supporters from water, agriculture, business, and local agencies praised her collaborative style and consensus-building, while opponents argued she had not done enough to protect the Delta and called for new leadership. The committee ultimately voted 4-0 to advance her appointment to the full Senate.
The committee then heard from Sivagunda Gunda for reappointment to the California Energy Commission. He highlighted progress on grid reliability, zero-carbon generation, and planning for California’s energy transition, including transportation fuels, building electrification, and the eventual retirement of Diablo Canyon. Senators questioned him about the future of Kern Energy and small refineries, the state’s transportation fuels plan, fuel imports and costs, and whether California can retire Diablo Canyon by 2030 without harming reliability. Gunda said the state is planning as if Diablo Canyon retires in 2030, that current resource additions make reliability manageable, and that affordability and market coordination remain key issues. The committee then voted 4-0 to advance his appointment to the full Senate, and the hearing recessed afterward.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Judiciary Committee Apr 29th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- I started to ask questions about why we don’t do that more when we think what the PUC is approving is
- We want the PUC to know that there is real judicial review so that when they make decisions, they are
- process and PUC decisions.
- All three IOUs have historically challenged various PUC decisions in both state and federal courts to
- Absent direction from the Legislature, the PUC has no reason to modify this problematic practice.
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on several bills related to reproductive access, child safety online, immigration enforcement in schools, health privacy, location data, digital provenance, reparations, and age assurance. AB 54 would protect the medication abortion supply chain and shield providers and others from liability; AB 1137 would strengthen reporting and enforcement tools for child sexual abuse material on social media; AB 49 would limit ICE activity at California public schools; AB 82 would expand privacy and safety protections for gender-affirming care patients and providers; AB 1355 would restrict the collection, use, and sale of precise location data; AB 853 would expand provenance requirements for AI-generated and authentic content; AB 62 would create a pathway for restitution for racially biased eminent domain takings; and AB 1043 would create a device-based age assurance framework for online services.
Supporters generally framed the bills as necessary responses to current harms: reproductive rights advocates emphasized California’s role as a safe haven; child safety witnesses described the persistence and re-victimization caused by CSAM online; immigrant rights and education advocates said schools should remain safe from immigration enforcement; health and LGBTQ+ advocates stressed privacy and safety risks tied to tracking and harassment; privacy and consumer groups backed limits on location data and stronger provenance tools; and reparations advocates said AB 62 would help address historic injustices. Opposition came from family policy, tech, business, law enforcement, and industry groups, who raised concerns about safety claims, constitutional issues, implementation burdens, transparency, law enforcement access, and the need to preserve existing privacy frameworks and voluntary standards.
The committee members largely expressed support for the policy goals while noting implementation concerns on some measures. Several members asked for or were offered coauthor status on bills. AB 1137, AB 54, AB 49, AB 82, AB 1355, AB 853, and AB 62 all received do-pass votes to Appropriations, with some members voting no or not voting on certain bills. AB 1355 and AB 853 were advanced with amendments or ongoing work promised with opponents, and AB 1043 was presented with discussion of possible amendments on parental consent and age assurance details, though the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/26/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><01:18:05.520><c> approved</c><01:18:05.840><c> rate</c> of solar is the only PUC approved rate of
- solar is the only PUC approved rate that<01:18:06.400><c> accurately</c><01:18:06.960><c> values</c>
- Um, you're rightly taking your victory lap with the support of the AG and the decision of the PUC, and
- and the decision the support of the AG and the decision of<01:45:41.199><c> the</c><01:45:41.360><c> PUC
- 43.280><c> so</c><01:45:43.520><c> to</c><01:45:43.960><c> now</c><01:45:44.960><c> just</c> of the PUC
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And in carrying out this mission, PUC employees and contractors are entrusted with sensitive regulatory
- This bill authorizes the PUC to conduct background checks on current employees and contractors, in addition
- Additionally, it would allow PUC to obtain criminal history information not only from Texas state agencies
- We do have resource witnesses from the PUC available today to answer any questions. Very good.
Bills:
HB431, HB1522, HB1922, HB2467, HB2468, HB3228, HB3229, HB3306, HB3803, HB3804, HB3805, HB3806, HB4219, HB4238, HB4344, HB4386, HB4739
Keywords:
HB 431, Texas Property Code, Property Code Chapter 202, solar roof tiles, solar shingles, solar energy device, homeowners association, HOA, property owners' association, POA, renewable energy, residential solar, distributed solar, roof-mounted solar, homeowner rights, architectural control, open meetings, public notice, transparency, government efficiency
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met with a quorum and first took up pending business, reporting several House bills favorably to the full Senate, including HB 11, HB 132, HB 1041, HB 1606, HB 2286, and HB 5061, with some also recommended for the local and uncontested or contested calendars. The committee then heard and left pending HB 3306, which would extend construction-contract indemnity exceptions to electric infrastructure work, including construction, maintenance, and vegetation management for utilities. Supporters said it would align utility infrastructure work with public works and reduce litigation and ratepayer costs, while opponents argued it would shift liability onto subcontractors and create broad-form indemnity concerns.
Members also heard HB 4739, a Comptroller-requested cleanup bill repealing an outdated Finance Code provision tied to delinquency charges on retail charge accounts, and left it pending without testimony. The committee then considered several Department of Banking cleanup bills, including HB 3803, HB 3804, and HB 3806, all left pending after brief explanations and no public opposition. HB 4219, dealing with public information requests, drew support from a journalist and a policy analyst who said it would improve transparency by requiring timely responses, notice when records do not exist, and training or fee consequences for noncompliance; it was left pending.
The committee also heard HB 4238, a committee substitute addressing coerced debt and identity theft, which would bar collection of certain debts from victims who obtain a qualifying court order. A law professor and a family violence advocate supported the bill as narrow, protective relief for domestic violence and elder abuse survivors, and it was left pending. Other bills heard and left pending included HB 1522 on local government budget meeting posting and taxpayer impact disclosures, HB 4344 authorizing background checks for PUC employees and contractors, HB 3805 updating money services business regulation, HB 431 extending solar-panel HOA protections to solar tiles, HB 3228 and HB 3229 on wind and solar recycling financial assurance, and HB 1922 clarifying the accrual date for construction defect claims under right-to-repair law. The committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/11/25 - Part 1
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Those off-ramps are being developed through a PUC docket process that began over a year ago and continues
- Those off-ramps are being developed through a PUC docket process that began over a year ago and continues
- The PUC has the authority to delay the standard if necessary, which is a far more responsible solution
- <c> or</c><00:32:45.519><c> the</c> ...did not have the means or the wherewithal to engage with the PUC
- The PUC in the legislature authorized the storage of spent fuel next to our tribe. Mr.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee May 13th, 2026
Utilities and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- and seeing how utilities and all of their vast resources can triangulate between the courts and the PUC
- But more importantly, ignoring this legislature's five laws involving this program, the PUC has ignored
- integrated cross-sector approach, to get to more prevention, to get to more energy reliability, the PUC
- ,' because the PUC is the one also.
- Should end with the phrase 'and the PUC,' because the PUC is the one ultimately that should be holding
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The PUC defines an IOU as a private enterprise acting as a public utility, AKA a private water and or
- Speaking of size, the PUC classifies IOUs by their number of connections rather than by their number
- In Texas, IRUs are regulated by both the PUC and TCQ and of course, on a federal level, we follow the
- The PUC regulates the finances of IOUs while the TCEQ enforces water and wastewater quality standards
- of current water rights in Texas and protects responsible holders of current CCNs, all 35 FTEs for PUC
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- We proposed, and this body passed, a workshop with the PUC to come back with recommendations next year
- committee, which found this amendment unfavorable by a vote of 6 to 3, and to vote no. workshop with the PUC
- to come back with workshop with the PUC to come back with recommendations<00:01:09.640><c> next</c><
- The PUC has previously been asked to fix this exact problem in 248A process and incorporate public input
- The<00:04:38.600><c> PUC</c><00:04:39.080><c> has</c><00:04:39.240><c> previously</c><00:04:39.760><c
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The first recommendation is intended to reduce the time it takes the PUC to process applications. for
- But do you feel confident that the PUC has the staffing to process these more quickly on an expedited
- I think that those were recommendations after the Senate received input from the PUC, but also...
- TAWC has been working with the PUC and the OPUC, as well as legislative staff, on revisions to HB2500
- Okay, which, do you want to do the PUC? All right. Chair calls Ian Gretsch, did I say it right?
Keywords:
water audit, water loss, water loss mitigation plan, municipally owned utility, municipal utility, water conservation, Texas Water Development Board, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water leakage, leak detection, billing data accuracy, utility validation, water audit validation, water scarcity, water management, infrastructure, public utility, conservation plan, administrative penalty
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
HF16, legislation to regulate data centers in Minnesota, passes House 6/9/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This data center bill establishes a very large customer class or subclass with the PUC.
- This data center bill establishes a very large customer class or subclass with the PUC.
- This data center bill establishes a very large customer class or subclass with the PUC.
- This data center bill establishes a very large customer class or subclass with the PUC.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/09/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><05:04:03.840><c> to</c> before the fact by requiring the PUC to before the fact by requiring the
- to make a decision about something. the PUC set a tariff when we don't even the PUC set a tariff when
- to do something before they have the PUC to do something before they have the<05:07:09.360><c> the</
- I don't think that the PUC would interpret that from this bill.
- </c> and not under PUC? and not under PUC?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- to reliability, generation, transmission planning, and distribution. and systems resiliency from the PUC
- Members include leaders from the PUC, ERCOT, the Comptroller's Office, and other key agencies to ensure
- programs and targets have been around for more than 25 years in Texas, developed and managed by the PUC
- The standard which the PUC adopted last year sets a reliability target based on. on the frequency, magnitude
Bills:
HB842, HB1907, HB2844, HB2892, HB3439, HB4211, HB4536, HB5111, HB5138, HB5182, HB5247, HB5269, HB5323, HB5435, HJR201, SB871, HB3896, SJR40
Keywords:
power lines, Gulf Coast, weather-related outages, Public Utility Commission, infrastructure, government contracts, Chinese companies, information technology, cybersecurity, state regulations, food safety, mobile vendors, licensing, permitting exemptions, health inspections, nonprofit organizations, personal information, government disclosure, privacy, criminal penalties
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Okay, I'm suggesting to you that the PUC is going to have a very difficult time determining what that
- Here for the last several years, there has been a standard at the PUC that is the public interest standard
- Do either of you know whether the PUC has the authority, as a legal matter, something that would render
- Isn't that a better, more reliable process than having the PUC trying to guess what FERC is going to
Keywords:
E-verify, employment verification, state contracts, immigration, labor compliance, ERCOT, Texas electric grid, interconnection, Public Utility Commission, PUC, Public convenience and necessity, electric cooperative, municipally owned utility, electric utility, transmission, generation facilities, grid reliability, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, SERC
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (02/20/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- So, um, you're on from the hearing, my notes say that the PUC asked who would be in charge of setting
- Down here it says issued by the commission, so it's the PUC.
- Is it the PUC or is it the Department of Energy?
- c> uh determination on the tariffs is it uh determination on the tariffs is it the<00:17:36.640><c> puc
- or is the Department of the puc or is the Department of energy<00:17:40.039><c> I</c><00:17:40.120><
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/11/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the one that Don Cree had written, removing the enforcement from the PUC.
- And I'm not advocating that the PUC in the docket that Unitil brought forward to recover its costs for
- So if, as you say, this turns out to be extremely expensive, then the PUC will say no and not allow it
- Essentially, the PUC would not be approving the cost recovery of those incurred expenses.
- and the PUC approved it?
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill regards the PUC studying barrier power lines near the Gulf of Mexico.
- The legislation... ...and also grants the PUC authority to adopt rules necessary to implement the policy
- As the legislature and the PUC continue to work to address long-term challenges...
- Then it says, "Hey PUC commissioners, take a look at it.
Bills:
HB551, HB 1281, HB1378, HB1617, HB2868, HB2881, HB3374, HB4439, HB4726, HB4732, HB4878, HB4914, HB4921, HB4958, HB5200, HB5318, HB5360, HB5402, HB5568, HB5573, HB5623, HJR218
Keywords:
political contributions, address privacy, Texas Ethics Commission, election transparency, campaign finance, international organizations, World Health Organization, jurisdiction, state law, enforcement, United Nations, World Economic Forum, attorney general, Texas attorney general, state sovereignty, legal enforcement, Texas Attorney General, electric energy storage, municipal regulation, county regulation
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee Jan 12th, 2026
Energy, Utilities and Communications
Transcript Highlights:
- Can you give us some insight on PUC interactions there? How's it been going so far?
- Yeah, just how's it going with PUC? Can you comment on that? Yeah, just how's it going with PUC?
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications heard two bills. SB 742, the Wildfire and Emergency Management Act by Senator Perez, would require investor-owned utilities to inventory and remove permanently abandoned transmission lines, update wildfire mitigation planning, and participate more directly in emergency operations centers. The author and supporters, including TURN and the Utility Wildfire Survivor Coalition, argued the bill responds to the Eaton Fire and other wildfire risks posed by decommissioned lines. Committee members raised questions about implementation, CPUC oversight, and ratepayer costs, but generally supported the measure as a safety and accountability step. The bill was amended and passed 12-0 to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The committee also heard SB 327 by Senator McNerney, which would clarify the Public Advocates Office’s authority to inspect utility records and prohibit investor-owned utilities from using ratepayer funds to oppose municipal utility formation or expansion. Supporters, including TURN, California Environmental Voters, the Public Advocates Office, and others, said ratepayer money should not be used for political lobbying and that the bill would improve accountability. Utility and business opposition witnesses said they did not oppose the policy goal but raised concerns about drafting clarity, due process, and the scope of the Public Advocates Office’s authority. After discussion about the need for clearer language, the bill was amended and passed 10-3 to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
At the end of the hearing, members thanked the chair for his service and noted it could be his last day leading the committee. The committee then formally opened and closed the rolls on both bills before adjourning.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/18/26
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- Projects that qualify for the GUIC rider undergo PUC and regulatory scrutiny similar to other riders
- </c><00:14:22.400><c> and</c><00:14:22.560><c> regulatory</c><00:14:23.240><c> scrutiny</c> undergo PUC
- Before you run off, you made the comment the PUC is, quote, comfortable.
- And Colorado's PUC told Xcel to phase out their equivalent of the UIC rider.
- We also have a PUC technical bill, which we'll be bringing forward next week.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Apr 16th, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- It's just the PUC sets a rate. They pay the PUC, and I'm calling it rent. Is that a fair...
- I did want to clarify that the cable companies do have that rate set by the PUC of 5%, but the telecom
Keywords:
telecommunications, local exchange companies, universal service fund, rate maintenance, business expansion, broadband access, internet service, multiunit residential properties, urban areas, affordability programs, fiber-optic cables, public land, construction permits, environmental impact, notification requirements, municipal projects, infrastructure, facility relocation, public right-of-way, 1184