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Senate Bill 687 (Collier– 1965)

Chapter 1752, Statutes of 1965

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Public Utilities Code sections 1501 et seq. were enacted following legislative passage of Senate Bill 687.  (See Exhibit A, #1d)  The bill was introduced by Senator Randolph Collier and a long list of other Senators on March 8, 1965.  (See Exhibit A, #1a) 

Senate Bill 687 was assigned to the Assembly Committee on Public Utilities.  Following approval by that Committee and the Assembly as a whole, the bill was transmitted to the Senate where it was heard by the Senate Committee on Public Utilities and Commerce.  (See Exhibit A, #2)  Upon favorable action by the Senate, Senate Bill 687 was transmitted to Governor Edmund G. Brown who approved it and it was recorded as Chapter 1752 of the Statutes of 1965.  (See Exhibit A, #1d and #2) 

The Office of Legislative Counsel summarized the provisions of Senate Bill 687 in its Report on Enrolled Bill prepared for the Governor as follows:

Requires any political subdivision that constructs facilities to provide or extend water service, or provides or extends such service, to a service area of a privately owned public utility, to compensate such privately owned public utility to the extent it is injured because property used in providing the water service is made inoperative, reduced in value or made useless, and makes such provisions applicable to privately owned public utility extending service to territory theretofore served by a political subdivision.
(See Exhibit A, #3, document PE-10)