05/01/2005 01:00 PM Senate FINANCE

                                                                                                                                
     CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 182(FIN)(efd fld)                                                                                    
     "An Act amending the  Alaska Wage and Hour Act as it relates to                                                            
     the employment of  a person acting in a supervisory capacity or                                                            
     in  an administrative,  executive,  or  professional  capacity;                                                            
     relating to definitions  under the Alaska Wage and Hour Act and                                                            
     providing  definitions for persons employed in  administrative,                                                            
     executive, and professional  capacities, for persons working in                                                            
     the  capacity of an  outside salesman,  for persons working  in                                                            
     the capacity  of a salesman employed  on a straight  commission                                                            
     basis,   and   for  persons   that  perform   computer-related                                                             
     occupations;   directing  retrospective   application   of  the                                                            
     provisions  of this Act to work performed before  the effective                                                            
     date of this  Act for purposes of claims filed  on or after the                                                            
     effective  date  of this  Act,  and disallowing  retrospective                                                             
     application for purposes of claims for that work that are                                                                  
     filed before the effective date of this Act."                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
This  was the first  hearing  for this  bill in  the Senate  Finance                                                            
Committee.                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
HEATHER NORBREGA, Staff  to Representative Norm Rokeberg, the bill's                                                            
sponsor, informed  the Committee that this bill, which  would change                                                            
the  definition   of  administrative,   executive,  and   profession                                                            
capacities, is a duplicate  of SB 131, which had previously reported                                                            
from Committee with the  lone difference between the two bills being                                                            
that, unlike  SB 131, which specified  an effective date  of July 1,                                                            
2005, this bill  has no effective date as the effective  date failed                                                            
approval on the House floor.                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
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Co-Chair  Green  questioned  the  reason  the  bill  is  before  the                                                            
committee  considering  the  fact  that  SB 131  had  reported  from                                                            
Committee and advanced to the Senate Rules Committee.                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Ms. Norbrega understood  that "the theory" was to  have at least one                                                            
Senate committee referral on the bill.                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE NORM ROKEBERG,  the bill's sponsor, affirmed that the                                                            
Committee  was familiar  with the  bill's language.  Continuing,  he                                                            
requested that the Committee  act with "due diligence" in regards to                                                            
action on the bill.                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Green asked for  confirmation that the language of the bill                                                            
is identical to that of SB 131.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Ms. Norbrega affirmed  that the lone difference is  that HB 182 does                                                            
not contain the July 1, 2005 effective date.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
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Co-Chair  Wilken  moved  to  report the  bill  from  Committee  with                                                            
individual recommendations and accompanying fiscal notes.                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
There being no objection,  CS HB 182(FIN)(efd fld) was REPORTED from                                                            
Committee  with zero fiscal  note #1, dated  March 1, 2005  from the                                                            
Department of Labor and Workforce Development.                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
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