NOTE:  This bill has been prepared for the signature of the appropriate legislative
officers and the Governor.  To determine whether the Governor has signed the bill
or taken other action on it, please consult the legislative status sheet, the legislative
      history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 07-1169
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Solano, Benefield, Borodkin, Casso, Green,
      Kefalas, Levy, McFadyen, McKinley, Merrifield, Peniston, Primavera,
      Todd, Carroll M., Fischer, Frangas, Kerr A., Labuda, Madden, Marshall,
      McGihon, Pommer, Rice, Soper, and Weissmann;
      also SENATOR(S) Shaffer, Boyd, Fitz-Gerald, Groff, Keller, Romer,
      Tochtrop, Tupa, Ward, Wiens, and Williams.
      
      
      Concerning net metering for customer-generators of cooperative
           electric associations.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: 
      
           SECTION 1.  40-9.5-304, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      REPEALED AND REENACTED, WITH AMENDMENTS, to read:
      
           40-9.5-304.  Interconnection - insurance.  (1)  An electric
      utility and a customer-generator shall comply with the
      interconnection standards and insurance requirements
      established in the rules promulgated by the public utilities
      commission pursuant to section 40-2-124; except that the electric
      utility may reduce or waive any of such insurance requirements.
      
           (2)  An electric utility shall not prevent or otherwise
      unreasonably burden the installation of a customer-generator
      system if such system includes protective equipment that prevents
      any export of customer-generated electricity from the
      customer's side of the meter.
      
           SECTION 2.  Effective date.  This act shall take effect at 12:01
      a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after final
      adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting a
      referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state
      constitution, (August 8, 2007, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2007);
      except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item,
      section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section, or
      part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the official
      declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Andrew Romanoff                      Joan Fitz-Gerald
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO