Text: H01013 Text: H01015 Text: H01000 - H01099 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 1 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 17 the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Sec. . Section 476.6, Code 2001, is amended by 1 5 adding the following new subsection: 1 6 NEW SUBSECTION. 25. LOW-INCOME FUNDING. To 1 7 provide funds to assist low-income customers of gas 1 8 public utilities, amounts collected by rate-regulated 1 9 gas utilities pursuant to subsection 19, paragraph 1 10 "e", that represent unrecovered amounts for the gas 1 11 portions of energy efficiency plans approved prior to 1 12 July 1, 1996, shall be paid, up to a maximum of twenty 1 13 million dollars per year, to the department of human 1 14 rights to provide eligible customers of gas public 1 15 utilities, as defined by the department of human 1 16 rights, with assistance in paying their natural gas 1 17 bills. The board shall adopt rules specifying each 1 18 rate-regulated gas utility's share of the fund and 1 19 each utility's allocation methods among residential 1 20 and other firm customers, but in no event shall rates 1 21 increase for any customer as a result of this 1 22 subsection. These funds shall be paid to the 1 23 department until July 1, 2003, at which time rate- 1 24 regulated gas utilities may continue recovery of any 1 25 remaining amounts for the gas portions of energy 1 26 efficiency plans approved prior to July 1, 1996. 1 27 The board may direct, upon the department of human 1 28 rights' request, all rate-regulated gas utilities to 1 29 advance a maximum of twenty million dollars, pursuant 1 30 to the allocation methods adopted by the board, to 1 31 allow immediate assistance to eligible customers. A 1 32 rate-regulated gas utility advancing funds shall have 1 33 the amount of the advance added to the unpaid amount 1 34 for the gas portion of its energy efficiency plan 1 35 approved prior to July 1, 1996, and interest shall be 1 36 paid on any funds advanced at a rate equal to the 1 37 interest paid on the unrecovered gas portions of 1 38 energy efficiency plans approved prior to July 1, 1 39 1996." 1 40 #2. Title page, line 4, by inserting after the 1 41 word "dwellings" the following: "and to providing 1 42 funds from rate-regulated gas utilities for assisting 1 43 low-income customers in paying their natural gas 1 44 bills". 1 45 1 46 1 47 1 48 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk 1 49 HF 1.701 79 1 50 mg/cls
Text: H01013 Text: H01015 Text: H01000 - H01099 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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