1.1    .................... moves to amend H.F. No. 3327 as follows:
1.2Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:

1.3    "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 237.766, is amended by adding a
1.4subdivision to read:
1.5    Subd. 4. Joining an existing plan. (a) A telephone company may elect to be
1.6regulated under another company's plan if:
1.7    (1) the company regulated under the plan is larger than the electing company; or
1.8    (2) the company regulated under the plan is an affiliated company of the electing
1.9company; and
1.10    (3) the plan is currently in effect.
1.11    (b) A telephone company electing to adopt an existing plan must operate under the
1.12terms of that plan for three years or the original term of the existing plan, whichever
1.13is longer.
1.14    (c) A telephone company that elects to adopt an existing plan must give notice to the
1.15commission at least 90 days prior to the proposed effective date of the adoption and to its
1.16customers at least 60 days prior to the proposed effective date.
1.17    (d) The Department of Commerce or the Office of the Attorney General may file
1.18an objection to a telephone company electing to adopt the plan of another company if
1.19the electing company has operated under an alternative regulation plan of its own and
1.20did not substantially comply with the service quality provisions of or did not meet the
1.21infrastructure obligations of its plan.
1.22    (e) If a telephone company has not previously operated under an alternative
1.23regulation plan, the rates for its price-regulated services may be no higher for the first three
1.24years of operation under the adopted plan than the rates in effect when the adopted plan
1.25becomes effective, except for any plan provisions that address exogenous changes.
1.26    (f) Within 30 days of the electing company filing notice to the commission under
1.27paragraph (c), interested parties may file comments with the commission that identify
2.1any aspect of the adoption that a party believes is contrary to the public interest. Reply
2.2comments may be filed 45 days following the notice to the commission. The commission
2.3shall approve the adoption within ... days of the electric company filing notice unless it
2.4finds that the adoption is not in the public interest, in which case the commission may
2.5reject or modify the adoption. If the commission modifies the adoption, the electing
2.6company may withdraw its proposed adoption by filing notice with the commission within
2.730 days of the commission's order modifying the adoption.
2.8EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment."