Legislature(2007 - 2008)BELTZ 211
02/12/2008 01:30 PM Senate LABOR & COMMERCE
| Audio | Topic |
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| Start | |
| HB226 | |
| SB230 | |
| Adjourn |
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
| + | TELECONFERENCED | ||
| += | SB 230 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | HB 226 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | HJR 25 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 187 | TELECONFERENCED | |
CSHB 226(FIN)-REPEAL TERMINATION OF STEP PROGRAM
1:40:05 PM
CHAIR ELLIS announced CSHB 226(FIN) to be up for consideration.
He said that the Palin administration intended to make the STEP
program a permanent part of state statute. The CS in their
packets extends it to 2018.
1:41:48 PM
RYNNIEVA MOSS, staff to Representative Coghill, sponsor of HB
226, agreed the original intent was to make STEP permanent, but
the current bill gives it a 10-year extension (it is repealed
June 30, 2009), which the sponsor supports. He also supports
leaving language in that says the commissioner of the Department
of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD), Click Bishop, will
work with all the stakeholders to review the program to look for
more improvements. Since Commissioner Bishop took over the
Department of Labor he had been reviewing the program, making
revisions and making it more accessible to the public.
CHAIR ELLIS said the department needed to address the integrity
of the program and the commissioner assured the committee that
those reviews were being made. He asked her to apprise them of
what is actually happening. Some folks suggested moving the
program out of the DOLWD, but he couldn't think of another place
that would make more sense.
MS. MOSS responded that she hadn't heard that suggestion. The
sponsor thinks the DOLWD is where the program should be because
it is about training labor.
1:46:30 PM
GUY BELL, Assistant Commissioner, Department of Labor and
Workforce Development (DOLWD), supported Ms. Moss's comments and
the 2018 extension that should carry through the new gas line
construction.
He said Commissioner Bishop had appointed David Stone, the new
deputy commissioner, to lead a task force to review the STEP
program for potential improvements. That process has already
begun.
1:47:37 PM
SENATOR STEVENS and SENATOR HOFFMAN joined the committee.
1:48:46 PM
SENATOR BUNDE said he shared the sponsor's confidence in
Commissioner Bishop and that he would keep his word on
investigating this issue. He thought 2018 was a good compromise.
1:49:43 PM
SENATOR BUNDE moved to adopt SCS CSHB 226(L&C). There were no
objections and it was adopted.
1:50:29 PM
SENATOR STEVENS moved to pass SCS CSHB 226(L&C) from committee
with individual recommendations and attached fiscal notes. There
were no objections and it was so ordered.
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