Text: H01013 Text: H01015 Text: H01000 - H01099 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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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".
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