Legislature(2007 - 2008)BELTZ 211
04/26/2007 01:30 PM Senate LABOR & COMMERCE
| Audio | Topic |
|---|---|
| Start | |
| SB140 | |
| SB102 | |
| SB28 | |
| SB118 | |
| HB121 | |
| Adjourn |
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
| *+ | SB 118 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | HB 121 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | TELECONFERENCED | ||
| += | SB 140 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 102 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 28 | TELECONFERENCED | |
SB 140-LEAVE FOR BONE MARROW DONATIONS
1:37:02 PM
CHAIR ELLIS announced SB 140 to be up for consideration. He set
it aside to wait for a quorum.
SB 140-LEAVE FOR BONE MARROW DONATIONS
CHAIR ELLIS announced SB 140 to be up again for consideration.
PAULA CADIENTE, staff to Senator Elton, sponsor, recapped that
this bill would allow public and private employees to be given
administrative leave for making bone marrow donations. Public
employees would get a minimum of 40 hours a week and by
regulation they would have a maximum amount and private
employees would get between 40 hours and no more than 60 hours.
1:52:21 PM
SENATOR STEVENS moved to adopt CSSB 140(L&C), version M. There
were no objections and it was so ordered.
1:52:50 PM
ANDREA QUINTO, Alaskan resident, explained that she had been
working with the National Marrow Donor program for two years -
mostly out of necessity in the beginning, but now for everybody
else. She related how her nephew came down with leukemia, but he
is now in remission and doing good. His donor is from New Mexico
and the year her nephew came down with leukemia, only four
others in this state needed a transplant - one of them was Susan
Butcher.
Not everyone who gets a bone marrow transplant would be from
this state, she explained. You don't know where a donor will
come from. She asked Senator Elton to draft this bill that would
help people who get the call and the opportunity to change
someone's life, especially in villages, who can't afford to
leave their jobs to get time off. In Alaska, it usually takes
two days of traveling time one way to the donor center in
Washington State - if the weather cooperates, plus recovery time
and 24 hours of observation to make sure you're okay - and two
days of traveling time back again.
MS. QUINTO said it is important to support this bill because it
supports people who are trying save other people. She asked them
to contemplate how them would feel if someone in their family
might need a transplant next and that a donor was available, but
couldn't leave work. She also stated that donor recipients are
not allowed to offer money to get the donor to them. It's all
voluntary. She said this legislation would only cover donors
from Alaska.
1:56:47 PM
CHAIR ELLIS thanked her for her testimony and said he sensed
good support for this bill. He said all the fiscal notes were
zero.
SENATOR STEVENS moved to pass CSSB 140(L&C) from committee with
individual recommendations and attached fiscal notes. There were
no objections and it was so ordered.
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