House Amendment 8220
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend House File 2475 as follows:
1 2 #1. By striking everything after the enacting clause
1 3 and inserting:
1 4 <Section 1. NEW SECTION. 216A.105 Deliverable
1 5 fuels == mandatory delivery == qualifications.
1 6 1. A deliverable fuel vendor engaged in the
1 7 business of providing deliverable fuel to customers in
1 8 this state shall not withhold the sale or delivery of
1 9 deliverable fuel to a customer between November 1 and
1 10 April 1 annually if the customer makes a cash payment
1 11 for deliverable fuel in the amount of five hundred
1 12 dollars; or, if the fuel is propane, the cash payment
1 13 shall be five hundred dollars or an amount equal to
1 14 the price in effect at the time of delivery for three
1 15 hundred gallons of propane, whichever is greater.
1 16 2. A deliverable fuel vendor providing deliverable
1 17 fuel to a customer may apply a customer's cash payment
1 18 pursuant to subsection 1 as follows:
1 19 a. Seventy=five percent toward the current
1 20 deliverable fuel sale or delivery.
1 21 b. Twenty=five percent toward any unpaid balance.
1 22 3. A customer shall be responsible for the
1 23 reasonable cost of system safety checks conducted by
1 24 a deliverable fuel vendor, unless the cost is paid
1 25 for with program funds. System safety check payments
1 26 shall be in addition to, and shall not reduce, the cash
1 27 payment otherwise available for deliverable fuel sale
1 28 or delivery. A propane vendor conducting a system
1 29 safety check shall inform customers of the existence
1 30 of projects developed by the Iowa propane education
1 31 and research council to provide assistance to persons
1 32 eligible for the program, if applicable, based upon the
1 33 results of the safety check.
1 34 4. A customer of a deliverable fuel vendor with an
1 35 unpaid balance owing to that vendor shall not attempt
1 36 to obtain deliverable fuel from another vendor pursuant
1 37 to this section unless and until a reasonable payment
1 38 arrangement for paying off the unpaid balance has been
1 39 entered into between the customer and the deliverable
1 40 fuel vendor. The division shall provide assistance in
1 41 facilitating a reasonable payment arrangement.
1 42 5. A deliverable fuel vendor is not prohibited
1 43 from withholding the sale or delivery of deliverable
1 44 fuel to a customer who cannot make a cash payment for
1 45 deliverable fuel as required in subsection 1.
1 46 6. For the purposes of this section, unless the
1 47 context otherwise requires:
1 48 a. "Customer" means an existing customer of a
1 49 deliverable fuel vendor who has qualified for the
1 50 federal low=income home energy assistance program for
2 1 the purchase or delivery of deliverable fuel.
2 2 b. "Deliverable fuel" means propane or any other
2 3 heating fuel sold and delivered in this state for home
2 4 heating purposes.
2 5 c. "Deliverable fuel vendor" means a retail propane
2 6 marketer or marketer of a deliverable fuel other than
2 7 propane that has agreed to participate in the federal
2 8 low=income home energy assistance program.
2 9 d. "Program" means the federal low=income home
2 10 energy assistance program.
2 11 e. "Propane" and "retail propane marketer" mean the
2 12 same as defined in section 101C.2.
2 13 Sec. 2. REPEAL. Section 101C.14, Code 2009, is
2 14 repealed.
2 15 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This Act, being
2 16 deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon
2 17 enactment.>
WAGNER of Linn
HF2475.1377 (1) 83
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