House Amendment 8368
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 2235, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
1 3 #1. By striking everything after the enacting clause
1 4 and inserting:
1 5 <Section 1. NEW SECTION. 216A.105 Deliverable
1 6 fuels == mandatory delivery == qualifications.
1 7 1. A deliverable fuel vendor engaged in the
1 8 business of providing deliverable fuel to customers in
1 9 this state shall not withhold the sale or delivery of
1 10 deliverable fuel to a customer between November 1 and
1 11 April 1 annually if the customer makes a cash payment
1 12 for deliverable fuel in the amount of five hundred
1 13 dollars; or, if the fuel is propane, the cash payment
1 14 shall be five hundred dollars or an amount equal to
1 15 the price in effect at the time of delivery for three
1 16 hundred gallons of propane, whichever is greater.
1 17 2. A deliverable fuel vendor providing deliverable
1 18 fuel to a customer may apply a customer's cash payment
1 19 pursuant to subsection 1 as follows:
1 20 a. Seventy=five percent toward the current
1 21 deliverable fuel sale or delivery.
1 22 b. Twenty=five percent toward any unpaid balance.
1 23 3. A customer shall be responsible for the
1 24 reasonable cost of system safety checks conducted by
1 25 a deliverable fuel vendor, unless the cost is paid
1 26 for with program funds. System safety check payments
1 27 shall be in addition to, and shall not reduce, the cash
1 28 payment otherwise available for deliverable fuel sale
1 29 or delivery. A propane vendor conducting a system
1 30 safety check shall inform customers of the existence
1 31 of projects developed by the Iowa propane education
1 32 and research council to provide assistance to persons
1 33 eligible for the program, if applicable, based upon the
1 34 results of the safety check.
1 35 4. A customer of a deliverable fuel vendor with an
1 36 unpaid balance owing to that vendor shall not attempt
1 37 to obtain deliverable fuel from another vendor pursuant
1 38 to this section unless and until a reasonable payment
1 39 arrangement for paying off the unpaid balance has been
1 40 entered into between the customer and the deliverable
1 41 fuel vendor. The division shall provide assistance in
1 42 facilitating a reasonable payment arrangement.
1 43 5. A deliverable fuel vendor is not prohibited
1 44 from withholding the sale or delivery of deliverable
1 45 fuel to a customer who cannot make a cash payment for
1 46 deliverable fuel as required in subsection 1.
1 47 6. For the purposes of this section, unless the
1 48 context otherwise requires:
1 49 a. "Customer" means an existing customer of a
1 50 deliverable fuel vendor who has qualified for the
2 1 federal low=income home energy assistance program for
2 2 the purchase or delivery of deliverable fuel.
2 3 b. "Deliverable fuel" means propane or any other
2 4 heating fuel sold and delivered in this state for home
2 5 heating purposes.
2 6 c. "Deliverable fuel vendor" means a retail propane
2 7 marketer or marketer of a deliverable fuel other than
2 8 propane that has agreed to participate in the federal
2 9 low=income home energy assistance program.
2 10 d. "Program" means the federal low=income home
2 11 energy assistance program.
2 12 e. "Propane" and "retail propane marketer" mean the
2 13 same as defined in section 101C.2.
2 14 Sec. 2. REPEAL. Section 101C.14, Code 2009, is
2 15 repealed.
2 16 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This Act, being
2 17 deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon
2 18 enactment.>
2 19 #2. Title page, by striking line 2 and inserting:
2 20 <under specified circumstances, and>
WAGNER of Linn
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