Legislature(2007 - 2008)BELTZ 211
03/22/2007 01:30 PM Senate LABOR & COMMERCE
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| Start | |
| SJR4 | |
| SB121 | |
| SB120 | |
| Adjourn |
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
| *+ | SB 120 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SJR 4 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 121 | TELECONFERENCED | |
SB 121-CRUISE SHIP DISCHARGE
CHAIR ELLIS announced SB 121 and a proposed CS, version K, to be
up for consideration.
SENATOR KIM ELTON, sponsor of SB 121, explained that the CS
removed former sections 8 and 9 and corrected some typos that
are currently in law. On page 4, line 17, "waster" was removed
and replaced with "wastewater" and "of" was replaced with "or"
on line 22. These sections broaden the title and, as with other
law, they would be dealt with in a reviser's bill.
He explained that the new section 8 deals with latitudes the
department has for information collection and was necessary to
fully restore the provisions of HB 522.
1:41:13 PM
SENATOR HOFFMAN joined the committee.
1:41:37 PM
SENATOR STEVENS moved to adopt CSSB 121(L&C), version K. There
were no objections and the motion carried.
SENATOR ELTON said Senator Bunde asked if this bill made a
substantive change to the initiative. He had been assured
previously that it didn't, but the chair suggested getting that
in writing and that was requested this morning. However, instead
of receiving a memo that dealt with a substantive issue, he
received a sectional analysis. In his conversation with the
drafter this morning, he was assured again that it did not make
a substantive change to the initiative.
SENATOR ELTON said the Department of Law suggested a potential
amendment to further tighten the title by inserting "commercial"
between "small" and "passenger" on page 1, line 2. This
definitely clarified that they are talking about only one class
of vessel and he had no objection to it.
1:44:18 PM
SENATOR STEVENS moved the amendment.
SENATOR STEVENS and DAVIS both asked what the difference was
between a small commercial vessel and a small commercial
passenger vessel.
SENATOR ELTON replied that a small passenger vessel could be his
16 ft. Boston Whaler.
Clearly this is not intended to affect my 16 ft.
Boston Whaler; it's only small commercial. And small
commercial passenger vessels are otherwise described
in law. My recollection is it's 250 or less
passengers.
There were no further objections to the amendment; and so it was
adopted.
1:46:14 PM
SENATOR STEVENS asked what the small commercial vessels have to
do now that they didn't have to do before.
SENATOR ELTON replied there really is no change. A couple of
years ago a statute was passed for small commercial passenger
vessels that are U.S. flagged that didn't have the capacity,
simply because of size, to have waste water treatment plants
onboard. An alternative process was put in place in HB 522 so
that the small vessels could comply with state discharge laws.
This just reinstates what the law was before for small
commercial vessels and all parties support it.
SENATOR BUNDE said he knew the sponsors of the initiative made
some changes and asked why they didn't make this change at that
time.
SENATOR ELTON replied that for the same reason the mistake
wasn't noticed.
CHAIR ELLIS noted two zero fiscal notes.
1:50:14 PM
SENATOR STEVENS moved to pass CSSB 121(L&C) from committee with
individual recommendations and zero fiscal notes. There were no
objections and it was so ordered.
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