03/16/2006 08:30 AM Senate JUDICIARY

                     HB 410-REVISOR'S BILL                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
9:32:26 AM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR RALPH SEEKINS announced HB 410 to be up for consideration.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
PAMELA  FINLEY, Revisor,  Legal Services,  introduced HB  410 and                                                               
explained to the committee that  the bill was required by statute                                                               
for  the purpose  of  clean up  errors in  the  statute when  the                                                               
policy  has  been  decided  and  is  clear.  The  source  of  the                                                               
revisions  is their  own review,  suggestions from  the Executive                                                               
Branch  and  members  of  the   public.  She  offered  to  answer                                                               
questions.                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR GENE THERRIAULT  asked the reason for Sections  27 and 29                                                               
of the bill.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
MS.  FINLEY  said   the  statute  was  renumbered   to  keep  the                                                               
references to money in the same provisions.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR THERRIAULT asked  what would happen if  the change wasn't                                                               
made.                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
MS. FINLEY said the court would  construe it to read as it reads.                                                               
She said it should be cleared up so that wouldn't be necessary.                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
9:34:16 AM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR THERRIAULT  asked Ms. Finley her  criteria for evaluating                                                               
the difference between pure clean up and substantive change.                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
MS.  FINLEY  explained,  for  example,   Section  17  on  page  6                                                               
established a  division of worker's  compensation because  SB 130                                                               
created the division  and kept talking about the  director but it                                                               
was never  established in  statute. She said  the only  thing she                                                               
didn't know  was who would appoint  the director and so  she used                                                               
the  standard  procedure  of   the  commissioner  appointing  the                                                               
director. That was an example of a substantive change.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
9:36:37 AM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR  THERRIAULT  moved  CSHB  410(JUD)  from  committee  with                                                               
individual  recommendations. Hearing  no  objections, the  motion                                                               
carried.