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House Amendment 1021

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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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