Legislature(2005 - 2006)
05/02/2005 10:36 AM Senate FIN
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 156(RLS) am
"An Act relating to the membership and duties of and quorum
requirements for the Alaska Commission on Aging; and providing
for an effective date."
This was the first hearing for this bill in the Senate Finance
Committee.
1:57:28 PM
BARBARA COTTING, Staff to Representative Jim Holm, the bill's
sponsor, informed the Committee that a new committee substitute has
been distributed.
Co-Chair Wilken moved to adopt committee substitute Version 24-
LS0615\S as the working document.
Co-Chair Green objected for an explanation.
Ms. Cotting expressed that during its committee referral process,
this "simple little bill" has been amended numerous times. She
reminded the Committee that the Alaska Commission on Aging was
moved from the Department of Administration to the Department of
Health and Social Services in the year 2003. That move resulted in
the need for Statutory revisions. She voiced appreciation for Co-
Chair Green's and others' input on the needed revisions that have
occurred in accomplishing that task during the bill's committee
process.
Ms. Cotting stated that the Version "S" committee substitute would
eliminate the requirement that the Commissioner of the Department
of Administration hold a seat on the commission, as that Department
is no longer involved with the Commission: that seat would instead
be reserved for a senior services provider. The committee
substitute would also allow all eleven Commission members to vote.
It would also eliminate sections that pertained to the Commission's
responsibility of evaluating and awarding grant applications, as
that function was no longer being performed. This would also serve
to eliminate any appearance of a conflict of interest.
[NOTE: Co-Chair Wilken assumed Chair of the Committee.]
1:58:43 PM
Co-Chair Wilken asked whether there were any further questions or
testimony in regards to the bill.
None were forthcoming.
1:58:54 PM
In response to a question from Senator Dyson, Co-Chair Wilken noted
that further action on the bill must wait until Co-Chair Green, who
had momentarily stepped away from the meeting, removed her
objection to the adoption of the committee substitute.
AT EASE: 1:59:04 PM / 1:59:06 PM
Co-Chair Wilken ordered the bill HELD in Committee.
1:59:29 PM
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 156(RLS) am
"An Act relating to the membership and duties of and quorum
requirements for the Alaska Commission on Aging; and providing
for an effective date."
The bill was again before the Committee.
Co-Chair Green removed her earlier objection to the committee
substitute. [See Time Stamp 1:56:31 PM.]
There being no further objection, the committee substitute was
adopted.
Co-Chair Wilken moved to report the bill from Committee with
individual recommendations and accompanying fiscal notes.
There being no objection, SCS CS HB 156(FIN) was REPORTED from
Committee with previous zero fiscal note #1 dated February 23, 2005
from the Department of Health and Social Services.
AT EASE 2:13:11 PM / 2:15:25 PM
2:15:30 PM
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