SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A bill to help wildfire victims get full restitution has cleared a key legislative hurdle in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
AB 2700 originally sought to cut electricity rates and address restitution shortfalls for utility-caused disasters that occurred prior to 2019.<\/p>\n
The Appropriations Committee advanced the bill but removed provisions requiring the state Public Utilities Commission to develop recommendations to reduce electricity rates by at least 30 percent.<\/p>\n
The legislation now focuses on requiring strategies to address restitution shortfalls for victims of utility-caused wildfires.<\/p>\n
Assemblymember James Gallagher, who authored the bill, said PG&E must be held accountable for its damages and payments to victims who are still struggling to recover from devastating utility-caused fires.<\/p>\n
“While I’m disappointed the committee stripped the portion of the bill aimed at reducing electricity rates, this is still a major step forward for wildfire survivors who have spent years fighting to be fully compensated,” Gallagher said.<\/p>\n
Gallagher thanked the thousands of survivors and advocates who showed up, spoke out, sent letters, made calls and made their voices heard throughout the process.<\/p>\n
He emphasized that advancing the bill out of Appropriations remains a significant achievement, as many bills never make it through the committee process.<\/p>\n
AB 2700 now advances to the Assembly Floor for a vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A bill to help wildfire victims get full restitution has cleared a key legislative hurdle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3671,972,100,121,123,122,136],"class_list":["post-323813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-covering-california","tag-local","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}