California § 739.12 - The commission shall continue a program of assistance to residential customers of

§ 739.12. The commission shall continue a program of assistance to residential customers of

(a) The commission shall continue a program of assistance to residential customers of the state’s three largest electrical corporations consisting of households with total household annual gross income levels between 200 percent and 250 percent of the federal poverty guideline level. The program shall continue to be referred to as the Family Electric Rate Assistance or FERA program. (b) The FERA program discount shall be an 18-percent line-item discount applied to an eligible customer’s bill calculated at the applicable rate for the billing period. (c) The commission shall authorize the state’s three largest electrical corporations to increase or expand marketing and outreach efforts beyond those in effect as of December 31, 2018, to increase eligible customer participation in the FERA program. (d) (1) The commission, by March 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, shall require the state’s three largest electrical corporations to report on their efforts to enroll customers in the FERA program. (2) The commission, by June 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, shall review each electrical corporation’s report to ensure it has made reasonable efforts to enroll eligible households in the FERA program commensurate with the proportion of households the commission determines to be eligible within the electrical corporation’s service territory. (3) If the commission, in its review of an electrical corporation’s report, determines the electrical corporation has not made reasonable efforts to enroll eligible households in the FERA program commensurate with the proportion of households the commission determines to be eligible within the electrical corporation’s service territory, the commission shall require the electrical corporation to develop a strategy and plan to sufficiently enroll eligible households within three years of the adoption of the strategy and plan. (4) An electrical corporation may market enrollment for the FERA program separately from the CARE program and provide a separate FERA program-only application form.