CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 156(RLS) am                                                                                          
     "An Act relating to the membership and duties of and quorum                                                                
     requirements for the Alaska Commission on Aging; and providing                                                             
     for an effective date."                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
This  was the first  hearing  for this  bill in  the Senate  Finance                                                            
Committee.                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
1:57:28 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
BARBARA  COTTING,  Staff  to Representative   Jim Holm,  the  bill's                                                            
sponsor, informed the Committee  that a new committee substitute has                                                            
been distributed.                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Wilken moved  to adopt  committee substitute  Version  24-                                                            
LS0615\S as the working document.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Green objected for an explanation.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Ms. Cotting  expressed that during  its committee referral  process,                                                            
this  "simple little  bill"  has been  amended numerous  times.  She                                                            
reminded  the Committee  that  the Alaska  Commission  on Aging  was                                                            
moved from  the Department  of Administration  to the Department  of                                                            
Health and Social  Services in the year 2003. That  move resulted in                                                            
the need for  Statutory revisions.  She voiced appreciation  for Co-                                                            
Chair Green's  and others' input on  the needed revisions  that have                                                            
occurred  in accomplishing  that task  during  the bill's  committee                                                            
process.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Ms. Cotting stated  that the Version "S" committee  substitute would                                                            
eliminate the  requirement that the  Commissioner of the  Department                                                            
of Administration hold  a seat on the commission, as that Department                                                            
is no longer involved  with the Commission: that seat  would instead                                                            
be  reserved   for  a  senior  services   provider.  The   committee                                                            
substitute would  also allow all eleven Commission  members to vote.                                                            
It would also eliminate  sections that pertained to the Commission's                                                            
responsibility  of evaluating  and awarding  grant applications,  as                                                            
that function  was no longer being performed. This  would also serve                                                            
to eliminate any appearance of a conflict of interest.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
[NOTE: Co-Chair Wilken assumed Chair of the Committee.]                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
1:58:43 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Wilken  asked whether there  were any further questions  or                                                            
testimony in regards to the bill.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
None were forthcoming.                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
1:58:54 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
In response to a question  from Senator Dyson, Co-Chair Wilken noted                                                            
that further action on  the bill must wait until Co-Chair Green, who                                                            
had  momentarily   stepped  away  from  the  meeting,   removed  her                                                            
objection to the adoption of the committee substitute.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
AT EASE: 1:59:04 PM / 1:59:06 PM                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Wilken ordered the bill HELD in Committee.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
1:59:29 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
     CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 156(RLS) am                                                                                          
     "An Act relating to the membership and duties of and quorum                                                                
     requirements for the Alaska Commission on Aging; and providing                                                             
     for an effective date."                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
The bill was again before the Committee.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Green  removed  her earlier  objection  to  the  committee                                                            
substitute. [See Time Stamp 1:56:31 PM.]                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
There  being no  further  objection,  the committee  substitute  was                                                            
adopted.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Wilken  moved  to  report the  bill  from  Committee  with                                                            
individual recommendations and accompanying fiscal notes.                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
There  being no  objection, SCS  CS HB  156(FIN)  was REPORTED  from                                                            
Committee with previous  zero fiscal note #1 dated February 23, 2005                                                            
from the Department of Health and Social Services.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
AT EASE 2:13:11 PM / 2:15:25 PM                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
2:15:30 PM