HOUSE BILL NO. 262                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     An Act relating to accounting  for and appropriations of                                                                   
     receipts from fees collected  by the Department of Labor                                                                   
     and Workforce  Development  for certain inspections  and                                                                   
     for certain plumbing and  electrical worker certificates                                                                   
     of fitness; establishing  a building safety account; and                                                                   
     providing for an effective date.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
REMOND  HENDERSON,   DIRECTOR,  DIVISION  OF   ADMINISTRATIVE                                                                   
SERVICES,  DEPARTMENT  OF LABOR  AND  WORKFORCE  DEVELOPMENT,                                                                   
spoke to the revised fiscal note  for HB 262.  He stated that                                                                   
the  new note  would make  a funding  switch between  general                                                                   
fund program  receipts and the  new building safety  account.                                                                   
The FY03 amount listed is the  amount of general fund program                                                                   
receipts anticipated to be collected from fees.                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Representative  Whitaker asked if  the new fiscal  note would                                                                   
answer concerns previously voiced by the Committee.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Mr.  Henderson  explained  that  the  last  fiscal  note  had                                                                   
contained requested  positions and that those  positions were                                                                   
now being requested as part of the operating budget.                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair  Bunde MOVED  to report  HB 262  out of  Committee                                                                   
with  individual recommendations  and  with the  accompanying                                                                   
new  fiscal  note.   There  being  NO  OBJECTION, it  was  so                                                                   
ordered.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
HB  262  was reported  out  of  Committee  with a  "do  pass"                                                                   
recommendation and  with a new  fiscal note by  Department of                                                                   
Labor & Workforce Development.