NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/23/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1091
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Thurlow and Mitsch Bush, Arndt, Coram,
      Melton, Nordberg, Sias, Tyler, Wist, Carver, Fields, Ginal, Lontine, Priola,
      Vigil, Williams, Winter;
      also SENATOR(S) Sonnenberg, Hodge, Cooke, Jones, Scott.
      
      
      Concerning a change to the biennial filing date for
           rate-regulated electric utilities to submit their plans for
           transmission facilities to the public utilities commission,
           and, in connection therewith, deleting the requirement
           that the commission issue a final order within one hundred
           eighty days after an application for the construction or
           expansion of transmission facilities is filed.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 40-2-126, amend (2)
      introductory portion and (2) (d); and repeal (4) as follows:
      
           40-2-126.  Transmission facilities - biennial review - energy
      resource zones - definitions - plans - approval - cost recovery. (2)  On
      or before October 31 of each odd-numbered year, commencing in 2007
      Biennially, on or before a date determined by the commission,
      commencing in 2016, each Colorado electric utility subject to rate
      regulation by the commission shall:
      
           (d)  Submit proposed plans, designations, and applications for
      certificates of public convenience and necessity to the commission for
      simultaneous review pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.
      
           (4)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any application
      for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction or
      expansion of transmission facilities pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection
      (2) of this section, the commission shall issue a final order within one
      hundred eighty days after the application is filed. If the commission does
      not issue a final order within that period, the application shall be deemed
      approved.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. 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
      10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2016); 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.
      
      
      
      
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      Dickey Lee Hullinghorst                Bill L. Cadman
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                            Effie Ameen
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
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                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO