HB 216 - REGULATIONS: INFORMATIVE SUMMARY/BILLS  2:23:41 PM CHAIR GATTO announced that the next order of business would be HOUSE BILL NO. 216, "An Act relating to deadlines in bills directing the adoption of regulations and to the informative summary required for the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation." [Before the committee was CSHB 216(STA); a proposed committee substitute (CS) for HB 216, Version 27- LS0701\T, Bannister, 2/2/12, was adopted as the work draft and amended on 2/3/12.] 2:24:05 PM REPRESENTATIVE HOLMES moved to adopt a new proposed committee substitute (CS) for HB 216, Version 27-LS0701\R, Bannister, 2/9/12, as the working document. REPRESENTATIVE PRUITT objected for the purpose of discussion. [Although that objection was never formally removed, the committee treated Version R as the work draft before it.] 2:25:36 PM REPRESENTATIVE PEGGY WILSON, Alaska State Legislature, sponsor - after briefly recapping that HB 216 is intended to ensure that proposed regulatory changes are completed in a timely manner, and that the associated notices are accompanied by a brief description of the proposed changes written in clear, easily- readable language - explained that in addition to incorporating Amendment 1 to Version T, Version R now also contains changes intended to address members' concerns and suggestions as expressed during the bill's last hearing. Specifically, under Version R, Section 1's proposed AS 24.08.035(f) now clarifies that it will be the affected department that shall include a deadline in its fiscal note; Section 1's proposed [AS 24.08.035(g) clarifies that as used in proposed subsection (f), the term, "agency" includes the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC), the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC), and the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC)]; Section 2's proposed AS 44.62.200(d) no longer contains the words, "without cross-referencing the Alaska Administrative Code" at the end of its second sentence; and newly-added Section 4 provides for an effective date of July 1, 2012. REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG questioned whether that's the correct effective date to provide for. REPRESENTATIVE P. WILSON said she would research that issue further. CHAIR GATTO announced that HB 216, Version R, would be held over.