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1 1 Amend the Committee amendment, H-1011, to House
1 2 File 1 as follows:
1 3 #1. Page 1, by striking lines 2 through 20 and
1 4 inserting the following:
1 5 "# . By striking everything after the enacting
1 6 clause and inserting the following:
1 7 "Section 1. NEW SECTION. 422.105 LIHEAP
1 8 APPROPRIATION.
1 9 1. The department shall certify by June 1, 2001,
1 10 to the treasurer of state the amount of sales and use
1 11 taxes estimated to be collected from both of the
1 12 following:
1 13 a. The gross receipts from the sale, furnishing,
1 14 or service of metered gas to provide energy for
1 15 residential customers where the date of the utility
1 16 billing of the customer is during March 2001 or April
1 17 2001.
1 18 b. The gross receipts from the sale, furnishing,
1 19 or service of fuel, including propane and heating oil,
1 20 used to provide heat for residential dwellings and
1 21 units of apartment and condominium complexes used for
1 22 human occupancy where the sale, furnishing, or service
1 23 of fuel used for heating purposes occurs during
1 24 February 2001 or March 2001.
1 25 2. There is appropriated form the general fund of
1 26 the state to the department of human rights, division
1 27 of community action agencies, for the fiscal year
1 28 beginning July 1, 2000, an amount equal to the
1 29 estimated sales and use tax revenues certified by the
1 30 department pursuant to subsection 1, for purposes of
1 31 the low-income home energy assistance program.
1 32 3. Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered or
1 33 unobligated moneys remaining from the appropriation in
1 34 subsection 2 at the end of the fiscal year shall not
1 35 revert but shall be available for expenditure for the
1 36 same purposes during the succeeding fiscal year.
1 37 Sec. 2. Section 476.6, Code 2001, is amended by
1 38 adding the following new subsection:
1 39 NEW SUBSECTION. 25. LOW-INCOME FUNDING. To
1 40 provide funds to assist low-income customers of gas
1 41 public utilities, amounts collected by rate-regulated
1 42 gas utilities pursuant to subsection 19, paragraph
1 43 "e", that represent unrecovered amounts for the gas
1 44 portions of energy efficiency plans approved prior to
1 45 July 1, 1996, shall be paid, up to a maximum of ten
1 46 million dollars per year, to the department of human
1 47 rights to provide eligible customers of gas public
1 48 utilities, as defined by the department of human
1 49 rights, with assistance in paying their natural gas
1 50 bills. The board shall adopt rules specifying each
2 1 rate-regulated gas utility's share of the fund and
2 2 each utility's allocation methods among residential
2 3 and other firm customers, but in no event shall rates
2 4 increase for any customer as a result of this
2 5 subsection. These funds shall be paid to the
2 6 department until July 1, 2003, at which time rate-
2 7 regulated gas utilities may continue recovery of any
2 8 remaining amounts for the gas portions of energy
2 9 efficiency plans approved prior to July 1, 1996.
2 10 The board may direct, upon the department of human
2 11 rights' request, all rate-regulated gas utilities to
2 12 advance a maximum of ten million dollars, pursuant to
2 13 the allocation methods adopted by the board, to allow
2 14 immediate assistance to eligible customers. A rate-
2 15 regulated gas utility advancing funds shall have the
2 16 amount of the advance added to the unpaid amount for
2 17 the gas portion of its energy efficiency plan approved
2 18 prior to July 1, 1996, and interest shall be paid on
2 19 any funds advanced at a rate equal to the interest
2 20 paid on the unrecovered gas portions of energy
2 21 efficiency plans approved prior to July 1, 1996.
2 22 Sec. 3. This Act, being deemed of immediate
2 23 importance, takes effect upon enactment."
2 24 # . Title page, by striking lines 1 through 4
2 25 and inserting the following: "An Act appropriating
2 26 sales and use tax revenues derived from the sale,
2 27 furnishing, or service of metered gas and of fuel used
2 28 in residential-type dwellings and providing funds from
2 29 rate-regulated gas utilities for assisting low-income
2 30 customers in paying their natural gas bills and"."
2 31
2 32
2 33
2 34 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk
2 35 HF 1.305 79
2 36 mg/cf
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