First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0192.01 Duane Gall           SENATE BILL 11-030
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Renfroe, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 DelGrosso, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Agriculture and Natural Resources
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a requirement that energy utilities disclose
            costs associated with customers' utility bills.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill declares that utility customers have a right to transparency
       in their utility bills, and therefore requires investor-owned gas and electric
       utilities to include in customer billing communications, at least 4 times
       per year, information about:
                 For electric utilities, the types of fuels used to generate
                 electricity, the percentage of the utility's electricity
                 attributable to each, the load profile for each, and the total
                 cost of generating electricity per kilowatt-hour for each fuel
                 type;
                 For gas and electric utilities, all ancillary costs associated
                 with providing gas or electricity to the customer, including
                 the costs of underground natural gas storage, natural gas
                 pipeline expansions, and new electric transmission
                 infrastructure.
            The bill specifies that the utilities' costs of revising the format of
       their current utility bills to provide the additional information may be
       recovered through rates.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Article 2 of title 40, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
            40-2-130.  Utility bills - cost transparency - disclosures to
       customers.  (1)  The general assembly finds, determines, and
       declares that all Coloradans have the right to transparency
       in their utility rates, including disclosure of all costs
       associated with the bills they pay for energy and how much each
       energy source affects their total bill.
            (2)  Each investor-owned public utility providing retail
       gas or electric service in Colorado shall disclose to each of its
       customers at least four times per year, in printed bills or billing
       inserts or, for customers who have opted for electronic billing
       communications, in electronic billing communications, the most
       recent available information concerning:
            (a)  For electric service, the types of fuel used by the
       utility to generate electricity, the percentage of the utility's
       electricity generation that is attributable to each fuel type,
       the load profile for each fuel type, and the utility's total
       generation cost per kilowatt-hour for each fuel type.  The cost
       calculation must include all ancillary costs associated with
       each fuel type, including the costs of underground natural gas
       storage, natural gas pipeline expansions, and new electric
       transmission infrastructure.
            (b)  For natural gas service, the cost per thousand cubic
       feet of gas under the utility's supply contracts and all
       ancillary costs associated with providing the gas to the
       customer, including the costs of underground storage and
       pipeline expansions.
            (3)  A utility's costs of revising the format of its bills to
       include the information required by this section may be
       recovered through rates.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - 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 (August
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.