Bruned vehicles Burned-out vehicles in Paradise, California, on Nov. 15, 2018. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

PG&E Corp. rose after a California lawmaker requested a bill to help the state's largest utility absorb liabilities from this year's fatal wildfires.

Kellie Smith, an adviser to assemblyman Chris Holden, said she is drafting legislation that could be introduced as early as Dec. 3. It may serve as a framework for lawmakers to consider relief for PG&E from the billions of dollars it faces in potential liability for death and property damage in Northern California's Camp Fire, the deadliest in state history.

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