04/18/2022 01:30 PM Senate LABOR & COMMERCE
| Audio | Topic |
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| Start | |
| SB160 | |
| SB225 | |
| Adjourn |
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= bill was previously heard/scheduled
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| += | SB 160 | TELECONFERENCED | |
| += | SB 225 | TELECONFERENCED | |
ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
SENATE LABOR AND COMMERCE STANDING COMMITTEE
April 18, 2022
1:32 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Senator Mia Costello, Chair
Senator Peter Micciche
Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson
MEMBERS ABSENT
Senator Joshua Revak, Vice Chair
Senator Gary Stevens
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
SENATE BILL NO. 160
"An Act providing a premium tax credit for flood insurance;
relating to flood insurance; relating to property insurance;
establishing the Alaska Flood Authority and the Alaska flood
insurance fund; and providing for an effective date."
- MOVED CSSB 160(L&C) OUT OF COMMITTEE
SENATE BILL NO. 225
"An Act relating to a paraprofessional training program;
creating a teacher resident certificate; creating a teacher
residency program; relating to requirements to issue a teacher
certificate; relating to subject-matter expert limited teacher
certificates; relating to limited teacher certificates; creating
a teacher registered apprenticeship program; and creating a
teacher registered apprenticeship program fund."
- MOVED CSSB 225(L&C) OUT OF COMMITTEE
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION
BILL: SB 160
SHORT TITLE: FLOOD INSURANCE
SPONSOR(s): SENATOR(s) STEDMAN
01/18/22 (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS
01/18/22 (S) L&C, FIN
03/23/22 (S) L&C AT 1:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
03/23/22 (S) Heard & Held
03/23/22 (S) MINUTE(L&C)
04/13/22 (S) L&C AT 1:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
04/13/22 (S) <Bill Hearing Canceled>
BILL: SB 225
SHORT TITLE: TEACHER REGISTERED APPRENTICE PROGRAMS
SPONSOR(s): EDUCATION
03/04/22 (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS
03/04/22 (S) EDC, L&C, FIN
03/07/22 (S) EDC AT 9:00 AM BUTROVICH 205
03/07/22 (S) Heard & Held
03/07/22 (S) MINUTE(EDC)
03/09/22 (S) EDC AT 9:00 AM BUTROVICH 205
03/09/22 (S) Heard & Held
03/09/22 (S) MINUTE(EDC)
03/14/22 (S) EDC AT 9:00 AM BUTROVICH 205
03/14/22 (S) Heard & Held
03/14/22 (S) MINUTE(EDC)
03/16/22 (S) EDC AT 9:00 AM BUTROVICH 205
03/16/22 (S) Heard & Held
03/16/22 (S) MINUTE(EDC)
03/18/22 (S) EDC AT 9:00 AM BUTROVICH 205
03/18/22 (S) Heard & Held
03/18/22 (S) MINUTE(EDC)
03/23/22 (S) EDC AT 9:00 AM BUTROVICH 205
03/23/22 (S) Heard & Held
03/23/22 (S) MINUTE(EDC)
03/30/22 (S) EDC AT 9:00 AM BUTROVICH 205
03/30/22 (S) Moved CSSB 225(EDC) Out of Committee
03/30/22 (S) MINUTE(EDC)
03/31/22 (S) EDC RPT CS 3DP NEW TITLE
03/31/22 (S) DP: HOLLAND, HUGHES, STEVENS
04/11/22 (S) L&C AT 1:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
04/11/22 (S) Heard & Held
04/11/22 (S) MINUTE(L&C)
WITNESS REGISTER
KATIE MCCALL, Staff
Senator Mia Costello
Alaska State Legislature
Juneau, Alaska
POSITION STATEMENT: Presented the changes between version A and
I of SB 160.
ED KING, Staff
Senator Roger Holland
Alaska State Legislature
Juneau, Alaska
POSITION STATEMENT: Explained the changes between version G and
version O of SB 225.
ACTION NARRATIVE
1:32:59 PM
CHAIR MIA COSTELLO called the Senate Labor and Commerce Standing
Committee meeting to order at 1:32 p.m. Present at the call to
order were Senators Gray-Jackson, and Chair Costello.
SB 160-FLOOD INSURANCE
1:33:33 PM
CHAIR COSTELLO announced the consideration of SENATE BILL NO.
160 "An Act providing a premium tax credit for flood insurance;
relating to flood insurance; relating to property insurance;
establishing the Alaska Flood Authority and the Alaska flood
insurance fund; and providing for an effective date."
[This is the second hearing and public testimony was closed
3/23/2022.]
She noted that there was a committee substitute (CS) for the
committee to consider.
1:33:45 PM
SENATOR MICCICHE moved to adopt the work draft committee
substitute (CS) for SB 160, work order 32-LS 0618\I, as the
working document.
CHAIR COSTELLO objected an explanation of the changes.
1:34:19 PM
KATIE MCCALL, Staff, Senator Mia Costello, Alaska State
Legislature, Juneau, Alaska, presented the changes between
version A and I for SB 160.
Page 1, Line 1
Removes "providing a premium tax credit for flood
insurance" from the bill title.
Page 1, Line 5
Removes the previous new subsection that allowed a
qualified insurer to obtain a premium tax credit under
AS 21.60.200(e)
Page 7, Line 14
Removes "premium tax credit" from the title of Sec.
21.60.200
Page 7, Line 22
Reduces the percentage of a member's liability in this
section from six percent to 2.7 percent of the total
direct premium.
Page 8, Line 19
Removes the subsection that allowed a member to offset
50 percent of the amount of the assessment as a
premium tax credit.
Page 8, Line 21
Reduces the amount that the legislature may
appropriate from cash reserves of the Alaska Housing
Finance Corporation to the Department of Commerce,
Community, and Economic Development to satisfy an
unpaid claim from $10,000,000 to $5,000,000.
Page 9, Line 10
Removes language allowing the insurance plan to take
effect retroactively to the date of the application.
Page 9, Line 11
Removes additional retroactive language related to
when the insurance plan goes into effect.
Page 11, Line 13
Updates the deadline to submit a suitable plan of
operation under the Transition: Plan of Operation
section from January 1, 2023, to January 1, 2024.
Page 11, Line 18
Updates the effective date of the bill from July 1,
2022, to July 1, 2023.
1:36:22 PM
CHAIR COSTELLO removed her objection. Finding no further
objection, version I was adopted.
CHAIR COSTELLO asked if there were questions.
SENATOR MICCICHE said he had not had time to read the CS, but he
didn't have any questions.
1:37:00 PM
At ease
1:40:00 PM
CHAIR COSTELLO reconvened the meeting.
1:40:05 PM
SENATOR MICCICHE said he didn't object to moving the bill from
committee because the sponsor guaranteed to work on it over the
interim. He related that he struggles with the bill
fundamentally because he is not aware of any other state that
covers flood insurance. Typically, when there is a flood the
cost can run into the billions which is why flood insurance is
cost prohibitive. He added that he wasn't ruling out supporting
a better bill sometime in the future.
1:41:05 PM
SENATOR MICCICHE moved to report the CS for SB 160, work order
32-LS 0618\I, from committee with individual recommendations and
attached fiscal note(s).
CHAIR COSTELLO found no objection and CSSB 160(L&C) was reported
from the Senate Labor and Commerce Standing Committee.
1:41:32 PM
At ease
SB 225-TEACHER REGISTERED APPRENTICE PROGRAMS
1:45:44 PM
CHAIR COSTELLO announced the consideration of SENATE BILL NO.
225 "An Act relating to a paraprofessional training program;
creating a teacher resident certificate; creating a teacher
residency program; relating to requirements to issue a teacher
certificate; relating to subject-matter expert limited teacher
certificates; relating to limited teacher certificates; creating
a teacher registered apprenticeship program; and creating a
teacher registered apprenticeship program fund."
She solicited a motion to adopt the committee substitute.
1:46:00 PM
SENATOR MICCICHE moved to adopt the work draft committee
substitute (CS) for SB 225, work order 32-LS 1439\O, as the
working document.
1:46:15 PM
CHAIR COSTELLO objected for purposes of an explanation.
1:46:25 PM
ED KING, Staff, Senator Roger Holland, Alaska State Legislature,
Juneau, Alaska, paraphrased the following changes between
version G and version O of SB 225:
Page 5, Line 24 Page 8, Line 1
Provides clarifying language regarding the teacher
residency program.
MR. KING stated the changes to the teacher residency program
were made to align to national best standards.
Page 9, Line 30
Makes a conforming change to the alternative
competency demonstration language added in Section 4.
Page 10, Line 9
Adds a technical fix to account for a teacher getting
fully certified during the extension of a two-year
subject matter expert certificate.
Page 11, Line 1 Page 12, Line 17
Restructures the apprenticeship language to more
closely align with the new structure of the residency
program in Section 2.
CHAIR COSTELLO asked for a description of the structure of the
residency program and how it would work.
MR. KING explained that the residency program provides an
alternative path to full certification for individuals who have
a college degree, but not in education. A post-graduate teacher
preparation program is required to become a fully certified
teacher. The teacher residency program creates a way for an
individual with a degree to get paid while receiving in-class
instruction and doing the necessary course work. This CS
provides more definition and makes it more consistent with what
other states are doing in their teacher residency programs.
CHAIR COSTELLO asked if this affects the Master of Arts in
Teaching program. In that program the student is in a school for
one day a week for a school year.
1:49:20 PM
MR. KING replied this provides a third alternative approach. The
typical approach would be to go to school for a year to get a
teaching certificate. An existing alternative is the subject
matter expert program that allows the student to work as they go
to school. This isn't very structured and the data indicates
that the turnover is high for individuals who take that
approach. The national best practice is to do a structured first
year in the classroom with an experienced teacher. The proposed
teacher residency program creates a third path as an alternative
to the other two.
1:50:10 PM
CHAIR COSTELLO removed her objection. Finding no further
objection, version O was adopted.
CHAIR COSTELLO commented that she was pleased to be looking at
alternative ways to hire more teachers, particularly people who
were raised in Alaska because they understand the problems.
SENATOR MICCICHE agreed and said he believes this will solve
problems in both urban and rural Alaska.
1:51:11 PM
SENATOR MICCICHE moved to report the CS for SB 225, work order
32-LS 1439\O, from committee with individual recommendations and
attached fiscal note(s).
1:51:29 PM
CHAIR COSTELLO found no objection and CSSB 225(L&C) was reported
from the Senate Labor and Commerce Standing Committee.
1:51:45 PM
There being no further business to come before the committee,
Chair Costello adjourned the Senate Labor and Commerce Standing
Committee meeting at 1:51 p.m.
| Document Name | Date/Time | Subjects |
|---|---|---|
| SB 160 CS Work Draft ver. I.pdf |
SL&C 4/18/2022 1:30:00 PM |
SB 160 |
| SB 160 Explanation of Changes ver. I.pdf |
SL&C 4/18/2022 1:30:00 PM |
SB 160 |
| SB 160 Fiscal Note 970 - DOL.pdf |
SL&C 4/18/2022 1:30:00 PM |
SB 160 |
| SB 160 Fiscal Note 344 - DOL.pdf |
SL&C 4/18/2022 1:30:00 PM |
SB 160 |
| SB 160 Letter of Opposition - APCI.pdf |
SL&C 4/18/2022 1:30:00 PM |
SB 160 |
| SB 225 Work Draft version O.pdf |
SL&C 4/18/2022 1:30:00 PM |
SB 225 |
| SB 225 Explanation of Changes version O.pdf |
SL&C 4/18/2022 1:30:00 PM |
SB 225 |