S.B. 04-96 Telecommunications - sale of assets - without commission approval. Specifies that authorization by the public utilities commission is not required for the sale, assignment, or lease of assets owned by a telecommunication service provider that are not used in the provision of regulated services or are land and support assets and are not directly used in the provision of regulated services.
APPROVED by Governor March 17, 2004
EFFECTIVE March 17, 2004
S.B. 04-111 Emergency telephone service - governing body authority - additional costs - total implementation. Authorizes a governing body to incur additional costs related to the continued operation of an emergency telephone service, payable from the existing emergency telephone charge imposed by the governing body. States that such costs include, but are not limited to, costs associated with equipment directly related to receipt and routing of emergency calls; costs associated with total implementation of emergency notification and telephone services by emergency service providers, including costs for programming, radios, and training programs; and personnel expenses necessarily incurred for a public safety answering point, regardless of county size. After certain basic costs and charges are fully paid from the existing emergency telephone charge imposed by the governing body, authorizes a governing body to use remaining funds collected to pay for the necessary equipment to redirect calls for nonemergency telephone services.
APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2004
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2004
S.B. 04-168 Renewable energy - authority to create renewable energy cooperatives - issuance of bonds by the Colorado agricultural development authority. Authorizes the creation of renewable energy cooperatives (cooperatives) to promote electric energy efficiency technologies and to generate, transmit, and sell electricity from renewable resources and technologies at wholesale.
Allows the Colorado agricultural development authority to issue revenue bonds to construct renewable energy generation facilities and electric transmission lines to facilitate the transmission of electricity generated by cooperatives. Requires the bonds to be repaid from revenues derived from the use of the generation facilities or transmission lines. Provides that the bonds shall not constitute indebtedness of the state and that income derived from the bonds shall be exempt from specified state and local taxes.
APPROVED by Governor May 27, 2004
EFFECTIVE May 27, 2004
H.B. 04-1225 Low-income energy assistance program - creation - exemptions - customer opt-out provision - administration - repeal. Requires gas and electric utilities to collect an energy assistance charge from each electric and gas customer beginning September 1, 2005, unless a customer opts not to pay the charge. As an alternative, allows municipally owned gas, electric, and gas and electric utilities and rural electric cooperatives, through a self-certification process, to implement alternative energy assistance programs.
Requires the public utilities commission to provide an opt-out mechanism whereby customers can choose not to contribute to the energy assistance program. Requires the public utilities commission to adopt rules to implement the opt-opt mechanism. Requires the energy assistance charge to appear on the monthly billing statement.
Requires utilities to transfer the moneys collected to energy outreach Colorado (the organization) on a specified schedule. Directs the organization to hold the moneys in a separate account and expend the moneys only for the purposes of improving energy efficiency and low-income energy assistance in the form of payment to utilities on behalf of qualified individuals. Requires the organization to develop an annual budget and to submit an annual report to the general assembly, the legislative audit committee, and the office of the state auditor. Requires the report to be made available to the public.
Authorizes the organization to provide low-income energy assistance on a prioritized basis to households where one or more persons are recipients of old age pension, aid to the needy disabled, aid to the blind, and supplemental security disability benefits.
Repeals the low-income energy assistance program, effective January 1, 2010, except that if at any point after September 1, 2006, the total costs of the program exceed the revenue generated from the energy assistance program, then the program shall be repealed immediately.
VETOED by the Governor June 4, 2004
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