04/14/2018 10:00 AM Senate FINANCE

CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 275(FIN)                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act extending the termination  date of the Board of                                                                    
     Massage  Therapists; relating  to  license renewal  and                                                                    
     criminal history record  checks for massage therapists;                                                                    
     and providing for an effective date."                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
3:14:53 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair   Bishop  MOVED   to  ADOPT   proposed  committee                                                                    
substitute  for   CSHB  275(FIN),  Work   Draft  30-LS1185\O                                                                    
(Radford, 4/14/18).                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair MacKinnon  OBJECTED for  discussion. She  noted the                                                                    
bill had been  heard on April 3, 2018  when public testimony                                                                    
had been  heard and the  fiscal note had been  reviewed. She                                                                    
asked her staff to review the changes in the bill.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
JULI  LUCKY, STAFF,  SENATOR  ANNA  MACKINNON, reviewed  the                                                                    
committee  substitute (CS).  She  referenced a  conversation                                                                    
earlier  in  the day  about  a  massage therapist  bill  and                                                                    
finger printing.  The previous version  of HB 25 had  a very                                                                    
similar provision  that limited the finger  printing to once                                                                    
every three  renewals. The bill  moved out of  the committee                                                                    
earlier  in  the day  had  similar  language, which  limited                                                                    
finger printing to  once every six years.  The committee did                                                                    
not want  to run into  a technical problem with  passing two                                                                    
bills that  revised the same  section of law  with different                                                                    
language;  therefore,  the  CS  was a  simple,  clean  board                                                                    
extension  to  June  30,  2024  with  all  of  the  language                                                                    
regarding finger printing removed.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair MacKinnon asked if the  extension was the same year                                                                    
as the previous bill.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Ms.  Lucky affirmed  that the  bill had  the same  extension                                                                    
year as  the previous  bill that had  been presented  to the                                                                    
committee.                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair MacKinnon  WITHDREW her  OBJECTION. There  being NO                                                                    
further OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
3:17:19 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair MacKinnon invited the  sponsor's staff to the table                                                                    
and asked if the sponsor was  amenable to the changes in the                                                                    
CS.                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
CRYSTAL  KOENEMAN, STAFF,  REPRESENTATIVE SAM  KITO, replied                                                                    
that  the  sponsor [Representative  Sam  Kito]  was in  full                                                                    
support of the changes in the CS.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair Bishop MOVED  to REPORT SCS CSHB  275(FIN) out of                                                                    
Committee   with   individual    recommendations   and   the                                                                    
accompanying fiscal  note. There being NO  OBJECTION, it was                                                                    
so ordered.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
SCS CSHB 275(FIN)  was REPORTED out of committee  with a "do                                                                    
pass"  recommendation and  with one  new fiscal  impact note                                                                    
from  the Department  of  Commerce,  Community and  Economic                                                                    
Development.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
3:18:13 PM                                                                                                                    
AT EASE                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
3:20:05 PM                                                                                                                    
RECONVENED