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1 1 Amend House File 518 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 8 the
1 3 following:
1 4 "Sec. . Section 476.10, unnumbered paragraph 4,
1 5 Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1 6 Whenever the board shall deem it necessary in order
1 7 to carry out the duties imposed upon it in connection
1 8 with rate regulation under section 476.6,
1 9 investigations under section 476.3, or review
1 10 proceedings under section 476.31, the board may employ
1 11 additional temporary or permanent staff, or may
1 12 contract with persons who are not state employees for
1 13 engineering, accounting, or other professional
1 14 services, or both. The costs of these additional
1 15 employees and contract services shall be paid by the
1 16 public utility whose rates are being reviewed in the
1 17 same manner as other expenses are paid under this
1 18 section. Beginning on July 1, 1991, there is
1 19 appropriated out of any funds in the state treasury
1 20 not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be
1 21 necessary to enable the board to hire additional staff
1 22 and contract for services under this section. The
1 23 board shall increase quarterly assessments specified
1 24 in unnumbered paragraph 2, by amounts necessary to
1 25 enable the board to hire additional staff and contract
1 26 for services under this section. The authority to
1 27 hire additional temporary or permanent staff that is
1 28 granted to the board by this section shall not be
1 29 subject to limitation by any administrative or
1 30 executive order or decision that restricts the number
1 31 of state employees or the filling of employee
1 32 vacancies, and shall not be subject to limitation by
1 33 any law of this state that restricts the number of
1 34 state employees or the filling of employee vacancies
1 35 unless that law is made applicable to this section by
1 36 express reference to this section. Before the board
1 37 expends or encumbers an amount in excess of the funds
1 38 budgeted for rate regulation and before the board
1 39 increases quarterly assessments pursuant to this
1 40 paragraph, the director of the department of
1 41 management shall approve the expenditure or
1 42 encumbrance. Before approval is given, the director
1 43 of the department of management shall determine that
1 44 the expenses exceed the funds budgeted by the general
1 45 assembly to the board for rate regulation and that the
1 46 board does not have other funds from which the
1 47 expenses can be paid. Upon approval of the director
1 48 of the department of management the board may expend
1 49 and encumber funds for the excess expenses, and
1 50 increase quarterly assessments to raise the additional
2 1 funds. The board and the office of consumer advocate
2 2 may add additional personnel or contract for
2 3 additional assistance to review and evaluate energy
2 4 efficiency plans and the implementation of energy
2 5 efficiency programs including, but not limited to,
2 6 professionally trained engineers, accountants,
2 7 attorneys, skilled examiners and inspectors, and
2 8 secretaries and clerks. The board and the office of
2 9 consumer advocate may also contract for additional
2 10 assistance in the evaluation and implementation of
2 11 issues relating to telecommunication competition. The
2 12 board and the office of the consumer advocate may
2 13 expend additional sums beyond those sums appropriated.
2 14 However, the authority to add additional personnel or
2 15 contract for additional assistance must first be
2 16 approved by the department of management. The
2 17 additional sums for energy efficiency shall be
2 18 provided to the board and the office of the consumer
2 19 advocate by the utilities subject to the energy
2 20 efficiency requirements in this chapter. Telephone
2 21 companies shall pay any additional sums needed for
2 22 assistance with telecommunication competition issues.
2 23 The assessments shall be in addition to and separate
2 24 from the quarterly assessment."
2 25 #2. By renumbering as necessary.
2 26
2 27
2 28
2 29 WEIGEL of Chickasaw
2 30 HF 518.203 76
2 31 mj/jj
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