03/29/1993 01:00 PM House JUD

  HB 147:  EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY FOR REFERENCE INFO                             
                                                                               
  MS. HORETSKI called the members' attention to a new draft                    
  committee substitute (CSHB 147 (JUD)), dated March 12, 1993.                 
  She noted that a companion bill, SB 122, was currently on                    
  the Senate floor.  She stated that the only change between                   
  CSHB 147 (JUD), dated March 12, 1993 and an earlier House                    
  Judiciary committee substitute appeared on the bottom of                     
  page 1.                                                                      
                                                                               
  MS. HORETSKI stated that the new committee substitute had                    
  two paragraphs at the bottom of page 1, and the old                          
  committee substitute had three paragraphs.  She explained                    
  that former paragraphs (1) and (2) had been combined into                    
  present paragraph (1) which required that, in order for an                   
  employer to lose the presumption of good faith, he or she                    
  must have recklessly, knowingly, or with a malicious                         
  purpose, disclosed false or deliberately misleading                          
  information.  If disclosed information was accurate, she                     
  noted, these provisions would generally not apply.                           
                                                                               
  Number 375                                                                   
                                                                               
  REPRESENTATIVE PHILLIPS made a MOTION to ADOPT CSHB 147                      
  (JUD), dated March 12, 1993.  There being no objection, IT                   
  WAS SO ORDERED.                                                              
                                                                               
  Number 379                                                                   
                                                                               
  REPRESENTATIVE JAMES made a MOTION to MOVE CSHB 147 (JUD),                   
  dated March 12, 1993, out of committee with individual                       
  recommendations.  There being no objection, IT WAS SO                        
  ORDERED.                                                                     
                                                                               
  CHAIRMAN PORTER announced that the committee would now take                  
  up HJR 3.