SENATE BILL NO. 90                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act classifying and setting a monthly salary for                                                                       
     the executive secretary of the Board of Public                                                                             
     Accountancy."                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
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DANA  OWEN,  STAFF,  SENATE LABOR  AND  COMMERCE  COMMITTEE,                                                                    
explained  the  legislation.  He reported  that  the  Alaska                                                                    
Board  of  Public  Accountancy was  authorized  to  hire  an                                                                    
Executive   Secretary  position   at  a   range  23   salary                                                                    
established  in   HB  315  ("An   Act  relating   to  public                                                                    
accounting;  and providing  for an  effective date")  during                                                                    
the 26th  legislative session. Subsequently,  the Department                                                                    
of Administration  (DOA) classified the position  at a lower                                                                    
range based upon a position  classification study. The board                                                                    
was unable  to hire the position  at a range 23.  He offered                                                                    
that the Senate Labor  and Commerce Committee introduced the                                                                    
legislation to re-establish the  range 23 salary in statute,                                                                    
according to the intent of HB 315.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Stoltze OPENED and CLOSED public testimony.                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
Vice-chair  Fairclough   MOVED  to  report  SB   90  out  of                                                                    
Committee   with   individual    recommendations   and   the                                                                    
accompanying fiscal  note. There being NO  OBJECTION, it was                                                                    
so ordered.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
SB  90  was REPORTED  out  of  Committee  with a  "do  pass"                                                                    
recommendation  and   with  attached   previously  published                                                                    
fiscal note: FN1, CED.                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
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