February 13, 1999

Mr. President:

Your CORPORATIONS & TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

1. On page 7, line 21, strike "is intended to".

2. On page 7, line 22, strike "cause" and insert in lieu thereof "causes".

3. On page 7, line 25, strike "is intended to cause" and insert in lieu thereof "causes".

4. On page 19, line 15, strike "after notice and hearing".

5. On page 34, line 25, strike "distribution service provided by public utilities and" and insert in lieu thereof:

"all retail kilowatt-hour sales in the state billed by public utilities, municipal utilities and distribution cooperative utilities.".

6. On page 35, line 1, strike "distribution cooperative utilities in the state.".

7. On page 36, line 17, strike "and paid by" and strike lines 18 and 19.

8. On page 36, line 20, strike "by the public utility or the distribution" and on line 21, strike "cooperative utility billing the customer".

9. On page 36, line 22, strike "by the public utility and the" and on line 23, strike "distribution cooperative utility".

10. On page 40, line 5, strike "pursuant to" and insert in lieu thereof "for the purposes of".

11. On page 42, line 9, strike "unbundled" and insert in lieu thereof "bundled".

12. On page 43, line 10, strike "prior written consent of the" and on line 11, strike "distribution cooperative utility and the".

13. On page 51, line 6, strike "and".

14. On page 51, line 9, strike the period and insert in lieu thereof "; and".

15. On page 51, between lines 9 and 10, insert the following new paragraph:

"(9) how power may be purchased from qualifying facilities, including facilitating net metering.".,

and thence referred to the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.

Respectfully submitted,

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Roman M. Maes, Chairman

Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________

(Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)

Date ________________________

The roll call vote was 4 For 2 Against

Yes: 4

No: Macias, McKibben

Excused: Aragon, Kidd, Rawson, Robinson

Absent: None

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