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HB 475                                                                                            
Representative Hawker offered a Title Amendment to the following,                                   
which passed the House on April 25, 2006 (page 3337):                                               
                                                                                                    
     CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 475(FIN) am                                                              
     "An Act relating to the supplemental employee benefit program;                                 
     relating to teachers' and public employees' defined benefit                                    
     retirement plans; relating to teachers' and public employees'                                  
     defined contribution retirement plans; relating to the health                                  
     reimbursement arrangement plan for certain teachers and public                                 
     employees; clarifying eligibility for membership in the health                                 
     reimbursement arrangement plan; relating to waiver of                                          
     adjustments under the teachers' defined benefit retirement plan                                
     and the public employees' defined benefit retirement plan; relating                            
     to the administrator of the Public Employees' Retirement System                                
     of Alaska; relating to employer contributions for occupational                                 
     disability and death benefits; repealing participation in the                                  
     teachers' defined contribution and defined benefit retirement plans                            
     by certain employees of the National Education Association of                                  
     Alaska; relating to requirements for employer minimum                                          
     contributions to the teachers' and the public employees' defined                               

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     benefit retirement systems; relating to the public employees'                                  
     defined benefit deferred compensation program; providing for an                                
     effective date by amending sec. 148, ch. 9, FSSLA 2005, which                                  
   contains an effective date; and providing for an effective date."                               
                                                                                                    
Representative Hawker moved the following Title Amendment and                                       
cited Uniform Rule 35:                                                                              
                                                                                                    
Page 1, line 3, following "retirement plans":                                                     
 Insert "that apply to employees first hired after June 30, 2007"                                 
                                                                                                    
The question being:  "Shall the Title Amendment be adopted?"  The                                   
roll was taken with the following result:                                                           
                                                                                                    
CSHB 475(FIN) am                                                                                    
Title Amendment                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  34   NAYS:  2   EXCUSED:  2   ABSENT:  2                                                   
                                                                                                    
Yeas:  Anderson, Berkowitz, Cissna, Coghill, Crawford, Croft,                                       
Dahlstrom, Elkins, Foster, Gara, Gardner, Gatto, Gruenberg,                                         
Guttenberg, Harris, Hawker, Holm, Joule, Kapsner, Kohring, Kott,                                    
LeDoux, Lynn, McGuire, Meyer, Moses, Neuman, Ramras, Rokeberg,                                      
Salmon, Stoltze, Thomas, Weyhrauch, Wilson                                                          
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Olson, Seaton                                                                                
                                                                                                    
Excused:  Kerttula, Samuels                                                                         
                                                                                                    
Absent:  Chenault, Kelly                                                                            
                                                                                                    
And so, the Title Amendment was adopted, and the new title follows:                                 
                                                                                                    
     CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 475(FIN) am                                                              
     "An Act relating to the supplemental employee benefit program;                                 
     relating to teachers' and public employees' defined benefit                                    
     retirement plans; relating to teachers' and public employees'                                  
     defined contribution retirement plans that apply to employees first                            
     hired after June 30, 2007; relating to the health reimbursement                                
     arrangement plan for certain teachers and public employees;                                    
     clarifying eligibility for membership in the health reimbursement                              
     arrangement plan; relating to waiver of adjustments under the                                  
     teachers' defined benefit retirement plan and the public employees'                            

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     defined benefit retirement plan; relating to the administrator of the                          
     Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska; relating to                                     
     employer contributions for occupational disability and death                                   
     benefits; repealing participation in the teachers' defined                                     
     contribution and defined benefit retirement plans by certain                                   
     employees of the National Education Association of Alaska;                                     
     relating to requirements for employer minimum contributions to                                 
     the teachers' and the public employees' defined benefit retirement                             
     systems; relating to the public employees' defined benefit deferred                            
     compensation program; providing for an effective date by                                       
     amending sec. 148, ch. 9, FSSLA 2005, which contains an                                        
     effective date; and providing for an effective date."                                          
                                                                                                    
CSHB 475(FIN) am was referred to the Chief Clerk for engrossment.