NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/5/2015.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 15-261
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Sonnenberg, Baumgardner, Hodge, Scott;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Young, Danielson, Fields, Lontine, Melton,
      Pettersen, Tyler, Windholz, Hullinghorst.
      
      
      Concerning a modification to the statute that specifies the forms
           of public notice that a public utility may provide regarding
           a change in the public utility's schedule of charges to
           allow a request for an alternative form of notice within
           the same formal application that the public utility files
           with the public utilities commission when applying for a
           change in the public utility's schedule of charges.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 40-3-104, amend (1)
      (c) (I) introductory portion and (1) (c) (I) (D) as follows:
      
           40-3-104.  Changes in rates - notice. (1) (c) (I)  Such A public
      utility shall provide the notice shall be given required under
      paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) by filing with the commission and
      keeping open for public inspection new schedules stating plainly the
      changes to be made in the schedules then in force and the time when the
      changes will go into effect. The commission may require transportation
      and water utilities may be required to give additional notice in a manner
      and form set forth by commission order or commission rules set forth by
      order or rule. For public utilities other than transportation and water
      utilities, the commission shall require additional notice shall be
      required prior to an increase or other change in any rate, fare, toll, rental,
      charge, classification, or service, and which additional notice may be
      made, at the option of the public utility, by any of the following methods:
      
           (D)  Upon application by At the request of the public utility, such
      other manner as the commission may prescribe.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
      applicability. (1)  This act takes 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 5, 2015, if adjournment sine die is on May 6,
      2015); 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 will
      not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be
      held in November 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
      official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.
      
           (2)   This act applies to a public utility's notice of schedule changes
      made on or after the applicable effective date of this act.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Bill L. Cadman                Dickey Lee Hullinghorst
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Cindi L. Markwell                      Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO