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1 1 Amend Senate File 65 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, by striking lines 1 through 29.
1 3 #2. By striking page 2, line 10 through page 3,
1 4 line 23 and inserting the following:
1 5 "Sec. . Section 476.6, Code 2001, is amended by
1 6 adding the following new subsection:
1 7 NEW SUBSECTION. 25. LOW-INCOME FUNDING. Moneys
1 8 collected by rate-regulated gas utilities pursuant to
1 9 subsection 19, paragraph "e", that represent
1 10 unrecovered amounts for the gas portions of energy
1 11 efficiency plans approved prior to July 1, 1996, shall
1 12 be paid, up to a maximum of fifteen million dollars
1 13 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and up to
1 14 a maximum of twenty million dollars for the fiscal
1 15 year beginning July 1, 2001, to the department of
1 16 human rights. The moneys received by the department
1 17 are appropriated to the department and shall be used
1 18 to provide financial assistance to eligible low-income
1 19 customers of gas public utilities, as defined by the
1 20 federal low-income home heating energy assistance
1 21 program guidelines, in paying their natural gas bills.
1 22 The board shall adopt rules specifying each rate-
1 23 regulated gas utility's share of the fund and each
1 24 utility's allocation methods among residential and
1 25 other firm customers, but a customer's rates shall not
1 26 increase as a result of this subsection. These funds
1 27 shall be paid to the department for the period
1 28 beginning on the effective date of this subsection and
1 29 ending six hundred thirty days later, after which time
1 30 rate-regulated gas utilities may continue recovery of
1 31 any remaining amounts for the gas portions of energy
1 32 efficiency plans approved prior to July 1, 1996.
1 33 The board may direct, upon the department of human
1 34 rights' request, all rate-regulated gas utilities to
1 35 advance to the department a maximum of the authorized
1 36 amount collected and paid to the department under this
1 37 subsection for each specified fiscal year, pursuant to
1 38 the allocation methods adopted by the board, to allow
1 39 for the provision of immediate financial assistance to
1 40 eligible customers. A rate-regulated gas utility
1 41 advancing moneys shall have the amount of the advance
1 42 added to the unpaid amount of the gas portion of its
1 43 energy efficiency plan approved prior to July 1, 1996,
1 44 and interest shall be paid on any moneys advanced at a
1 45 rate equal to the interest paid on the unrecovered gas
1 46 portions of energy efficiency plans approved prior to
1 47 July 1, 1996."
1 48 #3. Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and
1 49 inserting the following: "An Act relating to the low-
1 50 income home energy assistance program by providing an
2 1 appropriation and for the use of energy efficiency
2 2 plan-related moneys to provide financial assistance to
2 3 low-income customers of gas public utilities and
2 4 providing an effective date."
2 5 #4. By renumbering as necessary.
2 6
2 7
2 8
2 9 TOM FLYNN
2 10 PATRICK J. DELUHERY
2 11 JOE BOLKCOM
2 12 BILL FINK
2 13 MIKE CONNOLLY
2 14 PATRICIA HARPER
2 15 ROBERT E. DVORSKY
2 16 JOHNIE HAMMOND
2 17 MICHAEL E. GRONSTAL
2 18 DENNIS H. BLACK
2 19 JOHN P. KIBBIE
2 20 MARK SHEARER
2 21 JACK HOLVECK
2 22 EUGENE S. FRAISE
2 23 SF 65.302 79
2 24 jp/cf
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