SB 83-PROFESSIONAL LICENSING; TEMP PERMITS  1:34:37 PM CHAIR BJORKMAN announced the consideration of SENATE BILL NO. 83 "An Act relating to professional licensing; relating to temporary licenses for some professions; and providing for an effective date." He stated that this is the third hearing of this bill and Sylvan Robb will provide a recap. 1:35:03 PM SYLVAN ROBB, Director, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development, Juneau, Alaska, offered a recap of SB 83. She stated that this bill allows the department to issue a temporary license for 180 days to an individual who currently holds a license in good standing in another U.S. or Canadian jurisdiction. CHAIR BJORKMAN advised that in previous bill hearings the division informed the committee that in its current form, the bill fails to comply with federal regulations because it lacks the proper language to address military courtesy licenses. The proposed committee substitute addresses this issue. He solicited a motion. 1:36:37 PM SENATOR BISHOP moved to adopt the committee substitute (CS) for SB 83, work order 33-GS1614\S, as the working document. CHAIR BJORKMAN objected for purposes of discussion. He asked Mr. Jackson to explain the changes in the CS. 1:37:06 PM KONRAD JACKSON, Staff, Senator Jesse Bjorkman, Alaska State Legislature, Juneau, Alaska, presented the summary of changes from version A to version S of SB 83, paraphrasing from the following statement: [Original punctuation provided.] The draft proposed CS before members for consideration addresses a gap in the bill. That being military courtesy licenses. The changes made in the CS will bring Alaska into conformation with Federal Code- 50 U.S.C. 4025a (Sec. 19, 10 Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022). The changes made by the CS begin in sec. 2 which can be found on page 3, line 9 and continuing to page 5. Following this change, there are numerous conforming changes which replace the term "Temporary Military Courtesy" license with simply "Military Courtesy" license. Also, the term "military servicemember" is introduced to replace the term "active duty member". On page 4, lines 13-18 and 24-28 amending paragraphs (4) and (5) requiring a licensee must remain in good standing with the original licensing authority and complies with continuing education requirements. In section 4 on page 5, language is added specifying that these military courtesy licenses are valid for the duration that the service members is under official orders, under (a) of this section or 180 days, which ever is longer. There are additional conforming changes found in sections 4 and 6 regarding the terms military courtesy license and military servicemember. In new section 7, found on page 6, we align the definition of a "military service member to that of the definition found in 50 U.S.C 3911. The remaining section of the bill are then renumbered. The next change is found in the new section 29, on page 15, lines 9-15 where the regulations annulled by the bill are listed. The following sections are renumbers and conforming changes are made to the sections listed in the two effective date clauses (30 & 31) 1:39:57 PM CHAIR BJORKMAN removed his objection. Finding no further objection, version S of SB 83 was adopted as the working document and held in committee.