Legislature(2003 - 2004)
05/03/2004 02:08 PM Senate TRA
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ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
SENATE TRANSPORTATION STANDING COMMITTEE
May 3, 2004
2:08 p.m.
TAPE(S) 04-22
MEMBERS PRESENT
Senator John Cowdery, Co-Chair
Senator Gene Therriault
Senator Donny Olson
MEMBERS ABSENT
Senator Thomas Wagoner, Co-Chair
Senator Georgianna Lincoln
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 272(STA) am
"An Act relating to the advertising of motor vehicles, including
trailers, for sale by motor vehicle dealers; relating to the
financing of motor vehicle purchases; relating to motor vehicle
sales contracts; relating to the disclosures required to be made
by motor vehicle dealers when selling motor vehicles, including
trailers, or when their service employees work on commission;
relating to a motor vehicle dealer's selling as a new or current
model vehicle, a motor vehicle required to be registered under
AS 28.10; relating to a motor vehicle dealer's advertising an
offer for the sale, lease, or purchase of a motor vehicle,
including a trailer; relating to a motor vehicle dealer's
conditioning the sale and delivery of a motor vehicle, including
a trailer, on the buyer's purchase of other items; and relating
to the return of a buyer's trade-in by a motor vehicle dealer."
MOVED SCS CSHB 272 (TRA) OUT OF COMMITTEE
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION
BILL: HB 272
SHORT TITLE: MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS
SPONSOR(s): REPRESENTATIVE(s) WEYHRAUCH
04/16/03 (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS
04/16/03 (H) L&C, STA
04/28/03 (H) L&C AT 3:15 PM CAPITOL 17
04/28/03 (H) Scheduled But Not Heard
04/30/03 (H) L&C AT 3:15 PM CAPITOL 17
04/30/03 (H) Scheduled But Not Heard
05/01/03 (H) STA AT 8:00 AM CAPITOL 102
05/01/03 (H) Scheduled But Not Heard
05/05/03 (H) L&C AT 3:15 PM CAPITOL 17
05/05/03 (H) Heard & Held
05/05/03 (H) MINUTE(L&C)
05/07/03 (H) L&C AT 3:15 PM CAPITOL 17
05/07/03 (H) <Bill Hearing Postponed to Fri. 5/9/3>
05/09/03 (H) L&C AT 3:15 PM CAPITOL 17
05/09/03 (H) Moved CSHB 272(L&C) Out of Committee
05/09/03 (H) MINUTE(L&C)
05/12/03 (H) L&C RPT CS(L&C) 6DP 1AM
05/12/03 (H) DP: LYNN, GATTO, CRAWFORD, DAHLSTROM,
05/12/03 (H) ROKEBERG, ANDERSON; AM: GUTTENBERG
05/13/03 (H) STA AT 8:00 AM CAPITOL 102
05/13/03 (H) Heard & Held
05/13/03 (H) MINUTE(STA)
05/14/03 (H) STA AT 8:00 AM CAPITOL 102
05/14/03 (H) Moved CSHB 272(L&C) Out of Committee
05/14/03 (H) MINUTE(STA)
05/15/03 (H) STA AT 8:00 AM CAPITOL 102
05/15/03 (H) Heard & Held
05/15/03 (H) MINUTE(STA)
05/16/03 (H) STA RPT CS(STA)FORTHCOMING 3DP 1NR 3AM
05/16/03 (H) DP: CRAWFORD, LYNN, WEYHRAUCH;
05/16/03 (H) NR: HOLM; AM: DAHLSTROM, GRUENBERG,
05/16/03 (H) SEATON
05/16/03 (H) STA AT 8:00 AM CAPITOL 102
05/16/03 (H) Moved CSHB 272(STA) Out of Committee
05/16/03 (H) MINUTE(STA)
05/17/03 (H) MOVED TO BOTTOM OF CALENDAR
05/17/03 (H) CS(STA) RECEIVED
05/17/03 (H) BEFORE THE HOUSE
05/18/03 (H) TAKE UP SAME DAY FAILED Y25 N11 E4
05/19/03 (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S)
05/19/03 (H) VERSION: CSHB 272(STA) AM
05/19/03 (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS
05/19/03 (S) TRA, L&C
05/03/04 (S) TRA AT 2:00 PM BELTZ 211
WITNESS REGISTER
MS. LINDA SYLVESTER
Staff to Representative Bruce Weyhrauch
Alaska State Capitol
Juneau, AK 99801-1182
POSITION STATEMENT: Presented HB 272.
ACTION NARRATIVE
TAPE 04-22, SIDE A
CO-CHAIR JOHN COWDERY called the Senate Transportation Standing
Committee meeting to order at 2:08 p.m. Present at the call to
order were Senators Therriault, Olson, and Co-Chair Cowdery.
HB 272-MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS
The committee took up HB 272.
MS. LINDA SYLVESTER, Staff to Representative Bruce Weyhrauch,
testified that the compromise reached has been to take out
Section 1 of the bill and replace it with - on page 7, line 3 -
instructions to the Department of Law to continue monitoring and
investigating the consumer complaint issues on the sale of new
cars being sold as used cars. New cars were converted to used
cars; they essentially had low-mileage, brand new, but no
manufacturer's certificate of warranty. The sponsor's point is
that the sale of those vehicles comes under [indisc.] automobile
dealer franchiser law. If the attorney general continues to see
this as a problem, he can bring the issue back to the
Legislature, to deal with at another time.
MS. SYLVESTER said the bill deals with clean-up and minor
housecleaning issues that arose from the omnibus legislation
that was passed in 2002, HB 182. At that time Representative
Lisa Murkowski worked extensively with Representative Andrew
Halcro and developed that omnibus legislation with Ed Sniffen.
All parties spoke in support of that portion of the legislation
last year.
SENATOR THERRIAULT moved to adopt the committee substitute (CS),
version S [labeled 23-LS0975\S, Bannister, 4/30/04] as the
working document before the committee.
CO-CHAIR COWDERY asked if there was any objection. There being
none, it was so ordered.
SENATOR THERRIAULT asked if the text to be deleted on page 4 was
from the previous bill.
MS. SYLVESTER said the text was from [HB 182], the omnibus
legislation.
SENATOR OLSON asked if anybody was in opposition to the bill.
MS. SYLVESTER responded that last year there were comments
opposing Section 1. Those individuals spoke in support of the
bill itself.
SENATOR OLSON asked who expressed opposition.
MS. SYLVESTER said the main individual was Mr. Lieberger (ph)
from Anchorage who owns a used car dealership, and Mr. Allpine
(ph) who is a member of the Alaska Automobile Dealers
Association.
The committee took a brief at-ease, at the request of Senator
Olson.
CO-CHAIR COWDERY asked for the will of the committee.
SENATOR THERRIAULT moved to report SCS CSHB 272 (TRA) out of
committee with individual recommendations and zero fiscal note.
CO-CHAIR COWDERY, upon hearing no objections, announced it was
so ordered.
There being no further business to come before the committee, he
adjourned the meeting at 2:16 p.m.
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