In 1997, the Company issued Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures, Series B, with a principal amount of $51.5 million to Avista Capital II, an affiliated business trust formed by the Company. Avista Capital II issued $50.0 million of Preferred Trust Securities with a floating distribution rate of LIBOR plus 0.875 percent, calculated and reset quarterly. Effective on July 3, 2023, the reference to LIBOR in the formulation for the distribution rate on these securities was replaced, by operation of law, with three-month CME Term SOFR, as calculated and published by CME Group Benchmark Administration, Ltd. (a successor administrator), plus a tenor spread adjustment of 0.26 percent. Accordingly, the distribution rate on the Preferred Trust Securities is now three-month CME Term SOFR plus 1.137 percent.

The distribution rates paid were as follows during the years ended December 31:


	2023			2022			2021
Low distribution rate		5.64	%		1.05	%		0.99	%
High distribution rate		6.55	%		5.64	%		1.10	%
Distribution rate at the end of the year		6.51	%		5.64	%		1.05	%

Concurrent with the issuance of the Preferred Trust Securities, Avista Capital II issued $1.5 million of Common Trust Securities to the Company. These Preferred Trust Securities may be redeemed at the option of Avista Capital II at any time and mature on June 1, 2037. In December 2000, the Company purchased $10.0 million of these Preferred Trust Securities.

The Company owns 100 percent of Avista Capital II and has solely and unconditionally guaranteed the payment of distributions on, and redemption price and liquidation amount for, the Preferred Trust Securities to the extent Avista Capital II has funds available for such payments from the respective debt securities. Upon maturity or prior redemption of such debt

securities, the Preferred Trust Securities will be mandatorily redeemed. The Company does not include these capital trusts in its consolidated financial statements as Avista Corp. is not the primary beneficiary. As such, the sole assets of the capital trusts are $51.5 million of junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures of Avista Corp., which are reflected on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Interest expense to affiliated trusts in the Consolidated Statements of Income represents interest expense on these debentures.