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House Journal: Page 1306: Monday, April 6, 1998

Dotzler of Black Hawk offered the following amendment H-8925
filed by him and Murphy of Dubuque and moved its adoption:

H-8925

 1     Amend Senate File 2380, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 2, line 10, by inserting after the figure
 4   "(3)" the following:  "(a)".
 5     2.  Page 3, by inserting after line 13 the
 6   following:
 7     "(b)  Notwithstanding subparagraph subdivision (a),
 8   a plan filed on or after July 2, 1998, shall provide
 9   that the initial prices for basic communications
10   services shall be the rates approved and in effect at
11   the time the local exchange carrier files the plan
12   reduced by a percentage equal to the sum of four
13   percent plus the average percentage of bonuses paid
14   during the preceding twelve-month period by the local
15   exchange carrier to its five highest ranking officers
16   or employees in this state.  A local exchange carrier
17   which is required to reduce its rates by this percent
18   shall not, at a later time, increase its rates for
19   basic communications services as a result of the
20   carrier's compliance with the board's rules relating
21   to unbundling."
Amendment H-8925 lost.
Osterhaus of Jackson offered the following amendment H-8893
filed by him and moved its adoption:

H-8893

 1     Amend Senate File 2380, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 3, line 14, by inserting after the figure
 4   "(4)" the following:  "(a)".
 5     2.  Page 3, by inserting after line 22 the
 6   following:
 7     "b.  Notwithstanding subparagraph subdivision (a),
 8   a plan of a local exchange carrier with five hundred
 9   thousand or more access lines in this state shall
10   provide that prices for basic communications services
11   shall not be increased for a period of four years from
12   the date of the board's approval of the plan."
A non-record roll call was requested.
The ayes were 28, nays 48.
Amendment H-8893 lost.

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