Senate Study Bill 1002 SENATE/HOUSE FILE BY (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE/UTILITIES DIVISION BILL) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act extending the future repeal of a provision requiring the 2 issuance of certificates for furnishing local 3 telecommunications services, and providing an effective date. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1390XD 82 6 rn/je/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. 92 Iowa Acts, chapter 1058, section 3, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 SEC. 3. REPEAL. Section 476.29 is repealed effective July 1 4 1,20072017. 1 5 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 1 6 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 1 7 EXPLANATION 1 8 This bill extends the future repeal of Code section 476.29, 1 9 which requires the issuance to a utility of a certificate of 1 10 public convenience and necessity by the Iowa utilities board 1 11 prior to the furnishing of land=line local telephone service 1 12 by the utility. The legislation enacting Code section 476.29 1 13 in 1992 contained a future repeal date of July 1, 2007. The 1 14 bill extends the repeal date to July 1, 2017. The bill takes 1 15 effect upon enactment. 1 16 LSB 1390XD 82 1 17 rn:rj/je/5.1