2005-03-04                     Senate Journal                      Page 0487
            "An Act amending the Alaska Wage and Hour Act as                                        
            it relates to the employment of a person acting in a                                    
            supervisory capacity; providing definitions for                                         
            persons employed in administrative, executive, and                                      
            professional capacities, for persons working in the                                     
            capacity of an outside salesman, and for persons                                        
            working in the capacity of a salesman employed on a                                     
            straight commission basis."                                                             
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the Labor and Commerce and                                  
Finance Committees.                                                                                 
                                                                                                    
SB 132                                                                                            
SENATE BILL NO. 132 BY THE SENATE RULES COMMITTEE                                                   
BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR, entitled:                                                               
                                                                                                    
            "An Act relating to complaints filed with,                                              
            investigations, hearings, and orders of, and the                                        
            interest rate on awards of the State Commission for                                     
            Human Rights; making conforming amendments; and                                         
            providing for an effective date."                                                       
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the State Affairs and Judiciary                             
Committees.                                                                                         
                                                                                                    
The following fiscal information was published today:                                               
 Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Office of the Governor                                                    
 Fiscal Note No. 2, Department of Law                                                               
                                                                                                    
Governor's transmittal letter dated March 3:                                                        
                                                                                                    
Dear President Stevens:                                                                             
                                                                                                    
Under the authority of art. III, sec. 18, of the Alaska Constitution, I am                          
transmitting a bill that would amend the investigation and procedure                                
laws of the State Commission for Human Rights (commission).  The                                    
bill would amend the investigation and hearing procedures to enhance                                
fairness and efficiency and to give the commission more enforcement                                 
discretion to increase its effectiveness in combating unlawful                                      
discrimination.