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Legislative Sumary 2015-2016 Session, Assembly Committee On Accountability And Administrative Review

California Agencies

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Public Utilities Commission Reform Takes A Step Back, Deborah Nicole Behles, Steven Weissman

Publications

California is taking a leadership role with its progressive energy and environmental policies by requiring that half its energy is generated from renewable resources, authorizing the largest low-income solar initiative in the country and mandating a 50 percent increase in building energy efficiency. But the primary agency overseeing many of these policies, the California Public Utilities Commission, has been plagued with allegations of impropriety. Last fall, emails between commissioners and high-level utility officials led to serious questions about the integrity and fairness of the PUC’s decision-making.

Report By Ggu And Uc Berkeley Faculty Finds Cpuc Ex Parte Rules Unusual And Needing Reform, Deborah Nicole Behles

Publications

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has an unusual way of doing business. Most state and federal regulatory agencies prohibit private, closed-door discussions with interested parties about contested matters (ex parte communications).

Ex Parte Requirements At The California Public Utility Commission: A Comparative Analysis And Recommended Changes, Deborah Nicole Behles, Steven Weissman

Publications

Emails released beginning in the fall of 2014 demonstrate several improper private communications between high-level utility officials and decision-makers at the California Public Utility Commission (“CPUC”). The email chains show discussions ranging from a utility repeatedly lobbying on the outcome of an enforcement matter or aggressively pushing for a new judge assignment, to a commissioner soliciting donations to a political campaign or a banquet fund. Entities in the transportation industry have also alleged improper contacts with CPUC officials. In each instance, the CPUC decision-makers did not report the communications or insist that the utilities stop sending them. Rather, they actively …

California Administrative Procedure Act. Administrative Adjudication, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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California Administrative Procedure Act. Administrative Adjudication, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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Pinning Gulliver Down: An Environmental Case Study On The Place Of Decentralized Power In Federal Administrative Law Doctrine, Colin Crawford

Publications

The argument of this Article proceeds on several fronts. First, using the example of transport of hazardous materials, and, occasionally, more general issues surrounding regulation of toxic substances, this Article will document the absence of a local voice in federal administrative law. Because of the dangers involved in the use of hazardous materials, they present a particularly troubling example of the risks and possible consequences involved in neglecting local initiatives. The analysis used here applies with force to most fields of administrative law, to everything from health and safety regulation and maintenance of police forces to highway location and the …

California Administrative Procedure Act. Administrative Adjudication, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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Report To The Governor And To The Legislature, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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California Administrative Procedure Act. Procedures For Administrative Adjudication, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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5th Anniversary Report, Office Of Administrative Law

California Agencies

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Report To The Governor And To The Legislature, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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Hearing On The Standards Of Review Applied By Oal And The Quality And Consistency Of The Office's Decisions, Assembly Select Committee On The Oversite Of The Office Of Administrative Law

California Assembly

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Fourth Anniversary Report 1980-1084, Office Of Administrative Law

California Agencies

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Report To The Governor And To The Legislature, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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Impact Of Office Of Administrative Law On California Taxing Agencies, Assembly Revenue And Taxation Committee

California Assembly

In 1979, AB 1111 (McCarthy, Chapter 567) was enacted to establish an Office of Administrative Law charged with promoting regulatory reform on the part of California's state agencies. The end of the second year of existence of the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) signals an appropriate time for the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee to review the impact of OAL and its regulatory reform activities on California's two major tax agencies and the taxpayers they serve. This briefing booklet reproduces OAL's 1981-82 Annual Report, and includes short analyses by the staff of the Board of Equalization and the Franchise Tax …

Office Of Administrative Law Annual Report 1981-1982, Office Of Administrative Law

California Agencies

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Development Fees In The San Francisco Bay Area: An Update, Association Of Bay Area Governments

California Agencies

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Master Plan For Regulation Review, Office Of Administrative Law

California Agencies

California Administrative Register 81, No. 13-Z, Special Edition.

Report To The Governor And To The Legislature, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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Review Of Administrative Regulations: The Experience Of Other States, The Federal Government, And Options For California, Manuel P. Hernandez, Assembly Office Of Research

California Assembly

The rapid growth in the number of regulations contained in the California Administrative Code, the existence of numerous rules and regulations outside of the code, and the public concern regarding unnecessary and burdensome regulations suggest the need to establish a formal mechanism for reviewing administrative regulations.

At the request of the Committee on Governmental Organization, the Assembly Office of Research conducted a study of the subject of review of administrative regulations between November 1978 and April 1979. The study involved a literature search of the subject and a survey of the 34 states that have a formalized process for legislative …

Municipal Debt Limitation In California, Janice E. Kosel

Publications

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California Administrative Procedure Act, Office Of Administrative Hearings

California Agencies

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First Year Action Comprehensive Development Plan 1970-1971, San Francisco (Calif.). Bayview-Hunters Point Model Neighborhood Agency

California Agencies

The basic objective of the administrative structure of the City Demonstrative Agency (CDA) is to plan a comprehensive, coordinated program to meet the needs of the residents living within the Mission Model Neighborhood Area. Both responsibility and authority for implementing the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) rests with the CDA; the activities of both the Mission and Bayview-Hunters Point Model Neighborhood Areas are administered and coordinated by the CDA.

Lynn V. Duckel [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Homeowner's action was barred because he did not exhaust his administrative remedy prior to instituting suit, and he was properly denied relief because he did not have "clean hands," as he ran trucks in alley without a written permit.