<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 216B.0951, subdivision 1.<br/>
<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<br/>
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<a id="bill.0.1.0"></a><a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 216B.0951, subdivision 1, <br/>
<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>is amended to read:<br/>
<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>    Subdivision 1. <b>Establishment.</b> The commissioner of commerce shall operate, or <br/>
<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>contract to operate, a propane fuel prepurchase fuel program. The commissioner must hold <br/>
<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>up to $4,000,000 of a year's federal low-income home energy assistance appropriation <br/>
<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>for use in the next year to prepurchase propane. The commissioner may contract at any <br/>
<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>time of the year to purchase the lesser of one-third of the liquid propane fuel consumed by <br/>
<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>low-income home energy assistance program recipients during the previous heating season <br/>
<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>or the amount that can be purchased with available funds. The propane fuel prepurchase <br/>
<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>program must be available statewide through each local agency agencies  that administers <br/>
<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>administer  the energy assistance program. The commissioner may decide to limit or not <br/>
<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>engage in prepurchasing if the commissioner finds that there is a reasonable likelihood <br/>
<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>that prepurchasing will not provide fuel-cost savings. Funds required to be held over to <br/>
<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>the next year for prepurchase that the commissioner decides not to use for prepurchase are <br/>
<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>not required to be held over to a subsequent year and may be used for other authorized <br/>
<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>low-income home energy assistance purposes.<br/>