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SB 311                                                                                            
Senator French requested that the reconsideration on CS FOR                                         
SENATE BILL NO. 311(JUD) (efd fld) be taken up. The bill was                                        
before the Senate on reconsideration.                                                               
                                                                                                    
The question to be reconsidered: "Shall CS FOR SENATE BILL NO.                                      
311(JUD) "An Act providing for a special deposit for workers'                                       
compensation insurers; relating to the board of governors of the                                    
Alaska Insurance Guaranty Association; stating the intent of the                                    
legislature, and setting out limitations, concerning the interpretation,                            
construction, and implementation of workers' compensation laws;                                     
relating to restructuring the Alaska workers' compensation system;                                  
eliminating the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board; establishing a                                  
division of workers' compensation within the Department of Labor and                                
Workforce Development and assigning certain Alaska Workers'                                         
Compensation Board functions to the division and the Department of                                  
Labor and Workforce Development; establishing a Workers'                                            
Compensation Appeals Commission; assigning certain functions of the                                 
Alaska Workers' Compensation Board to the Workers' Compensation                                     
Appeals Commission and the Workers' Compensation Hearings                                           
Board; relating to agreements that discharge workers' compensation                                  
liability; providing for hearing examiners and hearing panels in                                    
workers' compensation proceedings; relating to workers' compensation                                

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awards; relating to an employer's failure to insure and keep insured or                             
provide security; providing for appeals from compensation orders;                                   
relating to workers' compensation proceedings; providing for supreme                                
court jurisdiction of appeals from the Workers' Compensation Appeals                                
Commission; providing for a maximum amount for the cost-of-living                                   
adjustment for workers' compensation benefits; providing for                                        
administrative penalties for employers uninsured or without adequate                                
security for workers' compensation; relating to assigned risk pools and                             
insurers; and providing for an effective date" pass the Senate?" The                                
roll was taken with the following result:                                                           
                                                                                                    
CSSB 311(JUD)                                                                                       
Third Reading - On Reconsideration                                                                  
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  11   NAYS:  9   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                   
                                                                                                    
Yeas:  Bunde, Cowdery, Dyson, Green, Ogan, Seekins, Stedman,                                        
Stevens B, Stevens G, Therriault, Wilken                                                            
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Davis, Ellis, Elton, French, Guess, Hoffman, Lincoln, Olson,                                 
Wagoner                                                                                             
                                                                                                    
and so, CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 311(JUD) passed the Senate on                                        
reconsideration.                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Senator Ben Stevens moved for the adoption of the effective date                                    
clauses.                                                                                            
                                                                                                    
Senator Ben Stevens called the Senate. Senator Ben Stevens lifted the                               
call.                                                                                               
                                                                                                    
The question being: "Shall the effective date clauses be adopted?" The                              
roll was taken with the following result:                                                           
                                                                                                    
CSSB 311(JUD)                                                                                       
Effective Date Clauses                                                                              
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  11   NAYS:  8   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  1                                                   
                                                                                                    
Yeas:  Bunde, Cowdery, Dyson, Green, Seekins, Stedman, Stevens B,                                   
Stevens G, Therriault, Wagoner, Wilken                                                              
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Davis, Ellis, Elton, French, Guess, Hoffman, Lincoln, Olson                                  
                                                                                                    
Absent:  Ogan                                                                                       
                                                                                                    

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and so, the effective date clause failed to be adopted and CS FOR                                   
SENATE BILL NO. 311(JUD)(efd fld) was referred to the Secretary                                     
for engrossment.