Text: HF00000 - HF00099 Text: HF 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 following: 1 3 "Sec. . Section 476.6, Code 2001, is amended by adding 1 4 the following new subsection: 1 5 NEW SUBSECTION. 25. LOW-INCOME FUNDING. To provide funds 1 6 to assist low-income customers of gas public utilities, 1 7 amounts collected by rate-regulated gas utilities pursuant to 1 8 subsection 19, paragraph "e", that represent unrecovered 1 9 amounts for the gas portions of energy efficiency plans 1 10 approved prior to July 1, 1996, shall be paid, up to a maximum 1 11 of twenty million dollars per year, to the department of human 1 12 rights to provide eligible customers of gas public utilities, 1 13 as defined by the department of human rights, with assistance 1 14 in paying their natural gas bills. The board shall adopt 1 15 rules specifying each rate-regulated gas utility's share of 1 16 the fund and each utility's allocation methods among 1 17 residential and other firm customers, but in no event shall 1 18 rates increase for any customer as a result of this 1 19 subsection. These funds shall be paid to the department until 1 20 July 1, 2003, at which time rate-regulated gas utilities may 1 21 continue recovery of any remaining amounts for the gas 1 22 portions of energy efficiency plans approved prior to July 1, 1 23 1996. 1 24 The board may direct, upon the department of human rights' 1 25 request, all rate-regulated gas utilities to advance a maximum 1 26 of twenty million dollars, pursuant to the allocation methods 1 27 adopted by the board, to allow immediate assistance to 1 28 eligible customers. A rate-regulated gas utility advancing 1 29 funds shall have the amount of the advance added to the unpaid 1 30 amount for the gas portion of its energy efficiency plan 1 31 approved prior to July 1, 1996, and interest shall be paid on 1 32 any funds advanced at a rate equal to the interest paid on the 1 33 unrecovered gas portions of energy efficiency plans approved 1 34 prior to July 1, 1996." 1 35 #2. Title page, line 4, by inserting after the word 2 1 "dwellings" the following: "and to providing funds from rate- 2 2 regulated gas utilities for assisting low-income customers in 2 3 paying their natural gas bills". 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk 2 8 2 9 2 10 2 11 2 12 RICHARDSON of Warren 2 13 HF 1.701 79 2 14 dt/es/25
Text: HF00000 - HF00099 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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