State Representative Penn Pfiffner has introduced House Bill #1264, which would:

• Increase the Denver Regional Transportation District competitive tendering mandate from the present 20 percent of bus service to 50 percent, over six years. (The 20 percent mandate was established by Senate Bill #164 in 1988, carried by State Senator Terry Considine, and State Representative [now State Treasurer] Bill Owens, and signed by Governor Roy Romer).

• Require RTDs costs for services not competitively tendered to drop by 2 percent annually, after adjustment for inflation, to a maximum of 20 percent. This 10 year, 20 percent reduction in costs per vehicle hour would halve the current difference between RTD's internal cost of operations and that of its competitively tendered services. Starting after impostion of the 50 percent competitive tendering mandate, in any year RTD fails to achieve the 2 percent annual reduction from the base year of 1996, the competitive tendering mandate would be increased another five percentage points.