Removes the PUC's authority to regulate the terms and conditions under which private line services, other than analog private line service with a capacity of less than 24 voice-grade circuits, are offered and provided at retail. Removes a provision for PUC review of private line services.
APPROVED by Governor April 14, 2000
EFFECTIVE April 14, 2000
S.B. 00-129 Deregulation - railroads. Exempts intrastate railroads from the rate-setting authority of the public utilities commission of the state of Colorado. Repeals numerous provisions that have been preempted by federal law.
APPROVED by Governor March 29, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 29, 2000
S.B. 00-196 Electrical and natural gas utilities - service - local government subdivision regulations. Requires subdivision regulations adopted by a board of county commissioners or a municipal planning commission to require subdividers to provide evidence that provision has been made for facility sites, easements, and rights of access for electrical and natural gas utility service sufficient to ensure reliable and adequate electric or natural gas service for the proposed subdivision.
Establishes that a letter of agreement between the subdivider and utility serving the site shall be deemed sufficient to establish that adequate provision for electric or natural gas service to a proposed subdivision has been made.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
S.B. 00-197 Electrical and natural gas utilities - location, construction, or improvement of facilities - local government approval. Declares that the location, construction, and improvement of major electrical and natural gas facilities are matters of statewide concern. Requires a local government to take final action on any application of a public utility providing electric or natural gas service (utility) that relates to the location, construction, or improvement of major electrical facilities within 120 days after the utility's submission of a preliminary application, if a preliminary application is required by the local government's land use regulations, or within 90 days after submission of a final application. Allows a local government and utility to agree to a different timeline.
Deems an application from a utility relating to location, construction, or improvement of major electrical facilities approved if the local government does not take final action within the required time period.
Defines "major electrical or natural gas facilities".
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
H.B. 00-1011 Telecommunications - regulation - definitions - rural telecommunications provider. Defines a new term, "rural telecommunications provider", that conforms substantially with the definition of a "rural telephone company" in the federal "Telecommunications Act of 1996". Applies the new definition to the existing statutory sections concerning nondiscriminatory access charges, assurances of interconnections, simplified regulatory treatment for small local exchange providers, and consideration of opening of the competitive local exchange market.
APPROVED by Governor March 10, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 10, 2000
H.B. 00-1087 Public utilities commission - securities - elimination of guarantee. Eliminates the public utilities commission's supervision of a public utility's guarantee of securities.
APPROVED by Governor March 16, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
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