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Pub. Util. Code, § 8290.2 · Article 6. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Employment Report

Pub. Util. Code, § 8290.2

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) (1) The commission shall require each electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, wireless telecommunications service provider, electric service provider, and telephone corporation with gross annual California revenues exceeding twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000), and their commission-regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit to the commission a report describing the employment of women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT individuals at all levels of employment within their organization and describing the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies or activities that promote equitable recruitment and hiring.

(2) The commission shall direct each community choice aggregator with gross annual revenues exceeding fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), as described in subdivision (m) of Section 366.2, to annually submit to the commission a report describing the employment of women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT individuals at all levels of employment within its organization and describing the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies or activities that promote equitable recruitment and hiring.

(b) Every entity specified in subdivision (a) shall furnish an annual report to the commission regarding the implementation of the programs established pursuant to this article in a form that the commission requires and at the time that the commission annually designates.

(c) (1) The Legislature declares that each community choice aggregator, electrical corporation, gas corporation, water corporation, mobile telephony service provider, electric service provider, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a report pursuant to subdivision (a) is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT employment at all levels of employment in those entities.

(2) The Legislature declares that each cable television corporation, direct broadcast satellite provider, exempt wholesale generator contracting to sell electricity to a retail seller, distributed energy resource contractor, and energy storage system company is encouraged to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT employment at all levels of employment in those entities.

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History

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 784, Sec. 6. (SB 1177) Effective January 1, 2025.

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