05/02/1994 09:10 AM Senate STA

 CHAIRMAN LEMAN brings up HB 531 (RELATING TO SOME STATE MULTIMEMBER           
 BODIES) as the first order of business before the Senate State                
 Affairs Committee and notes that the committee heard the senate               
 companion bill earlier in the session.  The chairman calls Ms. Leaf           
 from the Governor's Office to testify.                                        
                                                                               
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 KRISTIE LEAF, Director, Boards & Commissions, Office of the                   
 Governor, states there is a title change in HB 531, which is to               
 list individually the boards affected by the bill.  That was a                
 house floor amendment.  One other change is to section 8 of HB 531,           
 which eliminates a July 1, 1986 statutory deadline for the creation           
 of local resource development authorities.  The purpose of these              
 authorities is the improvement and establishment of facilities in             
 a rural district, for transportation purposes in connection with              
 natural resource development enterprises.  Ms. Leaf states those              
 were the only changes, and the only difference between the senate             
 bill and HB 531.                                                              
                                                                               
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 CHAIRMAN LEMAN asks if the Museum Collections Advisory Committee              
 language is okay with museums people.                                         
                                                                               
 MS. LEAF responds that language is okay with them.                            
                                                                               
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 SENATOR TAYLOR asks if the provisions in HB 531 concerning the                
 Parole Board comport with what the senate has done in another bill.           
                                                                               
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 MS. LEAF replies that the wording is somewhat different, but there            
 is no substantive difference between SB 286, which is now in the              
 governor's office, and HB 531.  SB 286 does have the preferred                
 language, so the governor will try to sign that bill second so that           
 it preempts the language in HB 531.                                           
                                                                               
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 SENATOR MILLER asks why not simply take the Parole Board language             
 out of HB 531.                                                                
                                                                               
 CHAIRMAN LEMAN states the committee would have to have a title                
 change if that language was taken out.                                        
                                                                               
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 SENATOR TAYLOR comments that HB 531 violates every title rule                 
 anyhow.                                                                       
                                                                               
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 CHAIRMAN LEMAN asks if there is any further committee discussion,             
 or if anyone in the public wishes to testify.                                 
                                                                               
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 SENATOR MILLER makes a motion to discharge HB 531 from the Senate             
 State Affairs Committee with individual recommendations.                      
                                                                               
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 CHAIRMAN LEMAN, hearing no objection, orders HB 531 released from             
 committee with individual recommendations.