2005-05-04                     Senate Journal                      Page 1310
HB 81                                                                                             
The Judiciary Committee considered CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO.                                            
81(L&C) "An Act establishing an administrative fine and procedure                                   
for construction contractors in certain circumstances; increasing the                               
amount of a civil penalty for persons acting in the capacity of                                     
contractors or home inspectors; modifying the elements of a crime                                   
involving contractor registration and residential contractors; modifying                            
the exemptions from regulation under AS 08.18 for contractors; and                                  
exempting the administrative hearings for imposing an administrative                                
fine on construction contractors from the hearings conducted by the                                 
office of administrative hearings in the Department of Administration"                              
and recommended it be replaced with                                                                 
                                                                                                    
                     SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO.                                           
          81(JUD)                                                                                   
                                                                                                    
Signing no recommendation: Senator Seekins, Chair; Senators French,                                 
Guess, Therriault, Huggins.                                                                         
                                                                                                    
The following previously published fiscal information applies:                                      
 Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Department of Commerce, Community                                         
       and Economic Development                                                                     
 Fiscal Note No. 2, zero, Department of Labor and Workforce                                         
       Development                                                                                  
                                                                                                    
The bill was referred to the Rules Committee.