HOUSE
                       3rd Reading Unamended
       February 29, 2012       HOUSE
       Amended 2nd Reading
                     February 28, 2012Second Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                REENGROSSED
                       This Version Includes All Amendments
                       Adopted in the House of Introduction
 LLS NO. 12-0030.01 Duane Gall x4335     HOUSE BILL 12-1123
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Conti, Becker, Brown, DelGrosso, Holbert, Murray, Nikkel, Ramirez, Scott, Summers,
 Swalm, Szabo
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Williams S., 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Transportation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning an increase in the transparency of proceedings
            before the public utilities commission by requiring the
            commission to report annually to the general
            assembly regarding matters discussed on the record in
            energy rate cases.
       
       
                           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 requires the director of the public utilities commission
       (PUC) or the director's designee to report annually to the joint house and
       senate transportation committees regarding matters discussed on the
       record in energy rate case hearings that were decided by the commission
       during the immediately preceding 2 years.
            For all rate cases included in the report, the bill directs the
       commission to estimate the economic impact of the rates involved,
       including the average increase or decrease in ratepayers' monthly bills.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, amend 40-2-103 as
       follows:
            40-2-103.  Director - duties - report. (1)  The executive director
       of the department of regulatory agencies, pursuant to section 13 of article
       XII of the state constitution, and with the approval of the commission,
       shall appoint a director of the commission. The director of the agency
       shall manage the operations of the agency in order to carry out the public
       utilities law, to carry out and implement policies, procedures, and
       decisions made by the commission, as defined in section 40-2-101 (1),
       and to meet the requirements of the commission concerning any matters
       within the authority of an agency transferred by a type 1 transfer, as
       defined in section 24-1-105, C.R.S., and which requirements are under
       the jurisdiction of the commission. The director shall have has all the
       powers and responsibilities of the division director for this purpose,
       including the power to issue all necessary process, writs, warrants, and
       notices. The director shall have has the requisite power to serve warrants
       and other process in any county or city and county of this state and to
       delegate such actions to duly authorized employees or agents of the
       agency as appropriate.
            (2) (a)  Beginning with the first regular session of the
       sixty-ninth general assembly, the director of the commission or
       the director's designee shall present an annual report to the
       joint house and senate transportation committees, or any
       successor committees, regarding energy rate cases that came      
       before the commission during the immediately preceding two
       years. The report and any accompanying materials may be
       prepared and submitted to the committees electronically, and
       must include the disposition of each energy utility rate case by
       the commission; the amount of any increase or decrease in rates
       that resulted from each energy utility rate case, expressed as
       a percentage of the total amount billed to ratepayers per
       month and per year; and the dollar amount of the average
       increase or decrease in the monthly bill paid by each class of
       energy utility ratepayers.
            (b)  The director shall not report on matters outside the
       scope of the evidence and testimony presented at the hearing.      
            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
       8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); 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.