SB 1011: Energy: Utility Infrastructure AI Safety, Oversight, and Workforce Protection Act.

The bill requires utilities to oversee the implementation of a program to regulate automated decision systems in connection with certain utility functions. Privately owned utilities and publicly owned utilities that employ automated decision systems must maintain a structured process for qualified personnel to modify or override the output of these systems. These utilities are prohibited from deploying high-risk automated decision systems in their live operational environment without a safety plan and must operate these systems in staging mode before full deployment. In the event of an incident, utilities must report the incident and submit a root-cause report within 24 and 30 hours, respectively. Utilities must continuously monitor their high-risk automated decision systems and submit annual reports. Utilities must provide at least 180 days' advance notice to affected labor organizatio…