Legislature(2007 - 2008)BUTROVICH 205
02/28/2008 01:00 PM Senate TRANSPORTATION
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| Start | |
| SB265 | |
| SB190 | |
| SB189 | |
| Adjourn |
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
| += | SB 265 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 190 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 189 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| + | TELECONFERENCED |
SB 265-SEX OFFENDERS & CHILD KIDNAPPERS
1:05:41 PM
CHAIR ALBERT KOOKESH announced SB 265 to be up for
consideration.
SENATOR LESIL MCGUIRE, sponsor of SB 265, said she brought a
committee substitute version E.
SENATOR BILL WIELECHOWSKI moved to adopt CSSB 265, labeled 25-
LS1449\E. There were no objections and it was so ordered.
SENATOR MCGUIRE said the goal of the bill is to try and capture
the 1 out of 10 sex offenders who are not registering.
1:06:06 PM
SENATOR MCGUIRE said her first attempt was modeled after Nevada
that said when you into the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV),
you would have to be sure you were in compliance with state law,
which is why it was originally referred to the Transportation
Committee.
SENATOR MCGUIRE said neither the DMV nor the Department of
Administration (DOA) support the Nevada model, so she looked at
other ways to get compliance for the outstanding 11 percent. She
and staff came up with using the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD)
application process as a tool, because it would probably bring
more people into compliance than using a driver's license would
and the administrative costs would be minimized. She said this
new CS also addressed the fact that rural Alaska does not have
DMV offices located in all of Alaska's small communities.
CHAIR KOOKESH said since SB 265 no longer had a transportation
component, he wanted to move it on to the State Affairs
Committee.
SENATOR DONALD OLSON asked why they decided not to follow the
Nevada model.
SENATOR MCGUIRE replied that the concerns raised centered
primarily around rural Alaska and how people would be able to
get in on an annual basis to get their drivers' license renewed.
It would be a hardship for them. The other concern was more of
an administrative issue. DMV is actually under the Department of
Administration (DOA) and not the Department of Public Safety
(DPS) and DOA had concerns about how this program would be
administered. However, she said the Nevada has worked
incredibly well there and it might be something they could
consider in the future.
SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI asked if the bill needs a resolution for a
title change.
SENATOR MCGUIRE replied that could be addressed in the State
Affairs Committee.
1:09:33 PM
SENATOR JOHN COWDERY asked how many offenders receive PFDs.
SENATOR MCGUIRE replied that statistics show between 10 and 11
percent of all felony sex offenders required to register are not
complying.
KATHRYN MONFREDA, Chief, Criminal Records and Identification
Bureau, Division of Statewide Services, Department of Public
Safety (DPS), said her duties include administration of the sex
offender registry and between 195 and 305 offenders are out of
compliance with the registration process. A quick study of 40
out-of-compliance offenders indicated that two-thirds had
applied for PFDs where half of them had a valid driver's license
or ID
SENATOR COWDERY asked if people who apply for PFDs were now
going to have to go through some sort of screening process,
because that's what her sponsor statement sounded like.
SENATOR MCGUIRE answered that they are working on the actual
process, but she didn't envision a background check. Rather she
thought if someone's name popped up as someone out of
compliance, that would initiate a verification process at that
level.
TREVOR FULTON, staff to Senator McGuire, responded that the
sponsor statement was referring to the Nevada model where every
time a person renewed his driver's license an electronic query
would be sent to the sex offender registry. The query would come
back as either a zero, a one or a two. A two indicates a
convicted sex offender who is out of compliance.
SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI asked if the Permanent Fund and if it had
taken a position on this bill and if it had a fiscal note.
CHAIR KOOKESH replied that a fiscal note had been requested, but
it hadn't arrived yet.
SENATOR MCGUIRE also replied that the Permanent Fund didn't
oppose the bill, but they were working with her to make sure the
administrative process was set up in a way that would work with
their business practices.
1:14:05 PM
SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI moved to report CSSB 265(TRA) from
committee with individual recommendations and attached fiscal
note(s). There being no objection, the motion carried.
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