05/11/1999 01:45 PM Senate L&C

                                                                                                                                
            HB 201-OVERTIME COMPENSATION COMPUTATION                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
CHAIRMAN MACKIE called the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee                                                                  
meeting to order at 1:45 p.m. and announced HB 201 to be up for                                                                 
consideration.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR DONLEY said he had requested a statement from an attorney                                                               
saying that this wouldn't affect the existing understanding of                                                                  
overtime, but he didn't get that.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
MR. DWIGHT PERKINS, Department of Labor, said the particular                                                                    
attorney that would have answered Senator Donley's question was                                                                 
tied up in a nursing strike and he apologized to Senator Donley.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR DONLEY said he wouldn't object to moving it, but he thought                                                             
there should be some independent review because it's a complicated                                                              
area.  MR. PERKINS said he would follow up on that.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR LEMAN moved to pass HB 201 from committee with individual                                                               
recommendations.  There were no objections and it was so ordered.