H-1189

   Amend House File 639 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 474.3, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   474.3  Proceedings.
   1.  The utilities commission may in all cases conduct its proceedings, when not otherwise prescribed by law, in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and the attainment of justice.
   2.  The utilities commission shall not threaten or impose sanctions against any intervenor unless the utilities commission determines the intervenor engaged in conduct that satisfies all the following conditions:
   a.  The intervenor was knowingly dishonest or in violation of a criminal statute.
   b.  The intervenor caused actual injury to the utilities commission, which injury is quantifiable and exceeds five hundred dollars.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, after <relating to> by inserting <proceedings under the Iowa utilities commission, including sanctions on intervenors in contested cases and>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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