HOUSE BILL NO. 114 "An Act relating to boiler and unfired pressure vessel inspection reports and fees." 9:05:11 AM REPRESENTATIVE SAM KITO, SPONSOR, introduced the legislation. The bill included proposed changes to the boiler/pressure vessel inspection reports program. He detailed that there were a limited but fair number of reports that were currently submitted manually. The department [Department of Labor and Workforce Development] was required to take the information and reenter it into a database. The goal of the department was to take the manual reports and recover costs at $10 per report that had to be filed; however, there was an electronic filing option that did not have the $10 additional fee. He furthered that if all of the reports were filed electronically, there would be no additional revenue, but there would be less expense for the department because it would no longer have to manually enter all of the reports. The bill would improve timeliness of reports so individuals would receive their inspection certificate quicker and would no longer have to wait 30 days. The bill provided a cleanup and aimed at moving the inspection report process into the electronic age. 9:07:47 AM Representative Thompson asked for verification there were 3,200 manual reports submitted. Representative Kito answered there were 3,200 individual boiler and pressure vessel reports that were filed by a company manually. Representative Wilson asked if there would be individuals who could not submit electronically. DEBORAH KELLY, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF LABOR STANDARDS AND SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, replied the 3,200 reports that were not filed electronically was generally due to the fact that one or two companies did not want to use the online program. She detailed the process used software that required a usage fee. She explained that one company nationwide had decided it would rather rely on the department for its data entry. Representative Wilson asked for the cost of the system. Ms. Kelly specified that under the system the company had to negotiate with the manufacturer based on company size and the department had been unable to obtain an estimate. Representative Wilson wanted to know the burden that could be placed on the users. Ms. Kelly replied that the department had unable to obtain the information, which was the reason it had gone with a very reasonable fee for its data entry - it was willing to offer the service to companies it had. Vice-Chair Gara asked for verification that the bill gave companies the option to file the reports manually. He surmised a company could file manually for $10 per report or save the money by filing electronically. Representative Kito answered in the affirmative. There was an option for a company that did not want to use the electronic program. The department was merely trying to acknowledge it had a cost associated with entering the data. 9:11:49 AM Co-Chair Foster OPENED and CLOSED public testimony. Co-Chair Seaton reviewed the fiscal note 1 for the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The department estimated the bill would result in an additional $32,000 in revenue to the building safety account. [Note: Co-Chair Seaton referred to the fiscal note as zero; however, the note was technically a fiscal impact note due to the potential generation of $32,000 per year for the state.] Representative Wilson remarked that the $32,000 would be generated only if people chose not to file electronically. Otherwise the fiscal note could be zero. She added she was not sure $10 would cover the whole fee. Co-Chair Seaton MOVED to REPORT HB 114 out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal note. There being NO OBJECTION, HB 114 was REPORTED out of committee with a "do pass" recommendation and with one previously published fiscal impact note: FN1 (LWF). 9:14:31 AM AT EASE 9:16:21 AM RECONVENED