04/09/2015 01:00 PM Senate TRANSPORTATION

           SB  66-PASSENGER & REC. VEHICLE RENTAL TAX                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
1:04:27 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR MICCICHE  announced the consideration  of SB 66. He  said a                                                               
new  proposed  committee   substitute  (CS)  addresses  questions                                                               
raised in the last meeting.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
1:04:49 PM                                                                                                                    
At ease from 1:04 to 1:05 p.m.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
1:05:07 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR BISHOP  moved to adopt  CSSB 66( ),  version 29-LS0470\F,                                                               
as the working document.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR STEDMAN objected for explanation purposes.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
1:05:34 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR   CATHY  GIESSEL,   sponsor  of   SB  66,   Alaska  State                                                               
Legislature, Juneau,  Alaska, thanked  the committee  for hearing                                                               
the bill  and asked her  staff to go  through the changes  in the                                                               
CS.                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
1:05:56 PM                                                                                                                    
FORREST WOLFE, Staff, Senator  Giessel, Alaska State Legislature,                                                               
Juneau,  Alaska,  said  the  CS  has only  one  change  from  the                                                               
previous version.  It adds Section  5 on page  4, lines 7  and 8,                                                               
clarifies  that  for  the  purposes  of  this  statute  "personal                                                               
property" is  a definition  given in  AS 01.10.060,  which reads:                                                               
(9) "personal  property includes  money, goods,  chattels, things                                                               
in action, and evidences of debt;".                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Members  of the  Alaska  Support Industry  Alliance  felt it  was                                                               
important  that this  definition  be directly  referenced in  the                                                               
statute to  eliminate any confusion.  The rest of the  changes in                                                               
the CS are purely structural.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR STEDMAN removed his objection and version F was adopted.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR MICCICHE opened public testimony.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
1:07:56 PM                                                                                                                    
KATHRYN THOMAS, Alaska Pacific  Leasing, Kenai, Alaska, supported                                                               
the new CS for SB 66.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
1:08:49 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR  MICCICHE,  finding  no  further  comments,  closed  public                                                               
testimony.                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  BISHOP  moved  to  pass CSSB  66(TRA),  version  F  from                                                               
committee  with individual  recommendations  and attached  fiscal                                                               
note(s). There were no objections and it was so ordered.