S-3112

   Amend Senate File 456 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   Section 1.  REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY INTERIM STUDY COMMITTEE.  The legislative council is requested to establish a study committee to meet during the 2017 legislative interim to examine the need for the regionalization of water utility systems located in federally designated standard metropolitan statistical areas that have populations greater than five hundred thousand, as shown by the most recent federal decennial census, and that are located entirely within the state. The interim study committee, if it deems appropriate, may make recommendations for or against the regionalization of such water utility systems.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and inserting <An Act requesting the legislative council to establish an interim study committee to examine the need for the regionalization of certain water utility systems.>

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KEVIN KINNEY