FIFTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

SECOND SESSION, 2016

February 8, 2016

Mr. Speaker:

    Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

HOUSE BILL 140, as amended

has had it under consideration and reports same WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION, amended as follows;

    1. Strike House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee Amendment 3.

     2. On page 4, line 19, strike "that shall" and insert in lieu thereof:

          "to be applied to customers who receive direct benefits of the gas infrastructure expansion activity and to any customers who reside or are located in the same or directly adjacent counties as the customers who receive direct benefits, and who receive indirect benefits of the gas infrastructure expansion activity, as determined by the commission. The allocation of infrastructure expansion rates between customers who receive direct benefits and those who receive indirect benefits in the same or directly adjacent counties shall be set by the commission following a hearing and notice. In setting and applying cost recovery methodologies through gas infrastructure expansion rates, the rules shall require that the commission".