02/02/2009 01:00 PM House JUDICIARY

HB 4 - FALSE CALLER IDENTIFICATION                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
1:39:26 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR RAMRAS announced that the  final order of business would be                                                               
HOUSE   BILL  NO.   4,   "An  Act   relating   to  false   caller                                                               
identification."                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
1:39:34 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE LYNN, speaking as one  of the joint prime sponsors                                                               
of HB  4, relayed  that this legislation  has already  passed the                                                               
House twice,  once in 2006 as  [House Bill 308] and  once in 2007                                                               
as House Bill 7.                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
DIRK  MOFFATT,  Staff,  Representative  Bob  Lynn,  Alaska  State                                                               
Legislature,  in  response  to  a question,  indicated  that  the                                                               
language of HB 4 is identical  to that which passed the House [in                                                               
2007].                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG  moved to report  HB 4 out  of committee                                                               
with  individual  recommendations  and  the  accompanying  fiscal                                                               
notes.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE GATTO,  noting that  material in  members' packets                                                               
indicates that there  are companies that provide  people with the                                                               
technology  enabling   them  to  falsify   caller  identification                                                               
systems, expressed favor with the bill.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR RAMRAS mentioned  that HB 4 currently  has an indeterminate                                                               
fiscal note.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE COGHILL, in response  to a question, remarked that                                                               
additional fiscal notes  can be attached to  legislation right up                                                               
until the time the legislation passes the legislature.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
1:44:33 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  GRUENBERG  again moved  to  report  HB 4  out  of                                                               
committee  with individual  recommendations and  the accompanying                                                               
fiscal notes.   There being no objection, HB 4  was reported from                                                               
House Judiciary Standing Committee.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG  mentioned that the prior  iterations of                                                               
this legislation have engendered testimony.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
[HB 4 was reported from the House Judiciary Standing Committee.]