Bill Text: IA SF2221 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to public utilities and sanitary sewage or storm water drainage disposal system providers. (Formerly SSB 3099.) Effective 7-1-16.
Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2016-03-23 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 589. [SF2221 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF2221-Enrolled.html
Senate File 2221 - Enrolled
SENATE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE
(SUCCESSOR TO SSB
3099)
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A BILL FOR
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Senate File 2221
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND SANITARY SEWAGE OR STORM WATER
DRAINAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM PROVIDERS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 476.1, subsection 3, Code 2016, is
amended by adding the following new paragraph:
NEW PARAGRAPH. d. Furnishing sanitary sewage or storm water
drainage disposal by piped collection system to the public for
compensation.
Sec. 2. Section 476.1, subsection 5, Code 2016, is amended
to read as follows:
5. This chapter does not apply to waterworks having less
than two thousand customers, municipally owned waterworks,
waterworks having less than two thousand customers, joint water
utilities established pursuant to chapter 389, rural water
districts incorporated and organized pursuant to chapters
357A and 504, cooperative water associations incorporated and
organized pursuant to chapter 499, municipally owned sanitary
sewage or storm water drainage systems, sanitary districts
incorporated and organized pursuant to chapter 358, districts
organized pursuant to chapter 468, or to a person furnishing
electricity to five or fewer customers either by secondary line
or from an alternate energy production facility or small hydro
facility, from electricity that is produced primarily for the
person's own use.
Sec. 3. Section 476.8, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2016,
is amended to read as follows:
Every public utility is required to furnish reasonably
adequate service and facilities. "Reasonably adequate service
and facilities" for public utilities furnishing gas or
electricity includes programs for customers to encourage the
use of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. The
charge made by any public utility for any heat, light, gas,
energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, water or
power produced, transmitted, delivered or furnished, sanitary
sewage or storm water collected and treated, or communications
services, or for any service rendered or to be rendered in
connection therewith shall be reasonable and just, and every
unjust or unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited
and declared unlawful. In determining reasonable and just
rates, the board shall consider all factors relating to value
and shall not be bound by rate base decisions or rulings made
prior to the adoption of this chapter.
Sec. 4. Section 476.9, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended
to read as follows:
2. Every public utility engaged directly or indirectly in
any other business than that of the production, transmission,
or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, the collection
and treatment of sanitary sewage or storm water, or the
furnishing of communications services to the public shall,
if required by the board, keep and render separately to the
board in like manner and form the accounts of all such other
business, in which case all the provisions of this chapter
shall apply to the books, accounts, papers and records of such
other business and all profits and losses may be taken into
consideration by the board if deemed relevant to the general
fiscal condition of the public utility.
PAM JOCHUM
President of the Senate
LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 2221, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
Approved , 2016
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor
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