1994-02-07                     House Journal                      Page 2280
HB 292                                                                       
The Labor & Commerce Committee has considered:                                 
                                                                               
HOUSE BILL NO. 292                                                            
"An Act relating to civil actions; amending Alaska Rules of Civil             
Procedure 49 and 68; and providing for an effective date."                     
                                                                               
and recommends it be replaced with:                                            
                                                                               
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 292(L&C)                                                
"An Act relating to civil actions; amending Alaska Rules of Civil             
Procedure 11, 49, 68, 82, and 95; and providing for an effective               
date."                                                                         
                                                                               
The report was signed by Representative Hudson, Chair, with the                
following individual recommendations:                                          
                                                                               
Do pass (3):  Hudson, Mulder, Porter                                           
                                                                               
No recommendation (4): Green, Williams, Sitton, Mackie                         
                                                                               
A House Labor & Commerce Committee letter of intent for CSHB
(L&C), signed by Representative Hudson, Chair, appears below:               
                                                                               
"The House Labor & Commerce Committee considered House Bill                    
292, an Act relating to civil actions, and has replaced it with                
Committee Substitute for House Bill 292 (L&C), and referred it to the          
Judiciary Committee.                                                           
                                                                               
It is the intent of the House Labor & Commerce Committee that the              
Judiciary Committee reconsider the amendment to current law that               
would delete the exclusion of disfigurement or severe physical                 
impairment from the cap on noneconomic damages in Section 7 of                 
CSHB 292(L&C) and adopt an amendment that: 1) defines the phrase               
`disfigurement or severe physical impairment'; and 2) restores the           
exclusion or establishes a more `realistic cap' on these types of              
injuries, per the commitment of the Chair of the Judiciary Committee."         
                                                                               
The following fiscal note applies to CSHB 292(L&C):                            
                                                                               
Zero fiscal note, Dept. of Law, 2/7/94                                         
                                                                               

1994-02-07                     House Journal                      Page 2281
HB 292                                                                       
HB 292 was referred to the Judiciary Committee.