SB297 HFIN AM 4-8
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The Committee on Finance moved to amend the bill on page twenty-two, section five, line seventy-seven, by striking out subdivision (2) in its entirety and renumbering the remaining subdivisions;
On page twenty-four, section five, following line one hundred twenty-one by inserting the following:
"(i) Termination. - The provisions of this section shall have no force and effect after June 30, 2012.";
On page twenty-eight, section six, following line ninety-one, by striking out subsection (k) in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"(k) The commission shall impose a special assessment on all electric utilities required to file a compliance plan. The assessments shall be prorated among the covered electric utilities on the basis of kilowatt hours of retail sales in West Virginia and shall be due and payable on September 1 of each year. The amount of revenue collected pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed $200,000 in the first year following the effective date of this article and shall not exceed $100,000 in successive years. The funds generated from the assessments shall be used exclusively to offset all reasonable direct and indirect costs incurred by the commission in administering the provisions of this article.";
On page thirty-five, section eleven, by striking out subsection (c) in its entirety and re-lettering the remaining subsections;
On page thirty-seven, following section eleven, by striking out section twelve in its entirety and renumbering the remaining sections;
On page thirty-eight, by striking out section fourteen in its entirety;
And,
On page three, by striking out the enacting section and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
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That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated §24-2F-1, §24-2F-2, §24-2F-3, §24-2F-4, §24-2F-5, §24-2F-6, §24-2F-7, §24-2F-8, §24-2F-9, §24-2F-10, §24-2F-11, and §24-2F-12, all to read as follows: ".