HOUSE HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES STANDING COMMITTEE February 4, 1999 3:02 p.m. MEMBERS PRESENT Representative Fred Dyson, Co-Chair Representative John Coghill, Co-Chair Representative Jim Whitaker Representative Carl Morgan Representative Tom Brice Representative Allen Kemplen MEMBERS ABSENT Representative Joe Green COMMITTEE CALENDAR HOUSE BILL NO. 27 "An Act relating to graduate student loans; and providing for an effective date." - MOVED CSHB 27(HES) OUT OF COMMITTEE (* First public hearing) PREVIOUS ACTION BILL: HB 27 SHORT TITLE: GRADUATE STUDENT LOANS SPONSOR(S): REPRESENTATIVES(S) MULDER Jrn-Date Jrn-Page Action 1/19/99 25 (H) PREFILE RELEASED 1/8/99 1/19/99 25 (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRAL(S) 1/19/99 25 (H) HES, FINANCE 2/02/99 (H) HES AT 3:00 PM CAPITOL 106 2/02/99 (H) HEARD AND HELD 2/04/99 (H) HES AT 3:00 PM CAPITOL 106 WITNESS REGISTER REPRESENTATIVE ELDON MULDER Alaska State Legislature Capitol Building, Room 507 Juneau, Alaska 99801 Telephone: (907) 465-2647 POSITION STATEMENT: Testified as sponsor of HB 27. DIANE BARRANS, Executive Director Postsecondary Education Commission Department of Education 3030 Vintage Boulevard Juneau, Alaska 99801 Telephone: (907) 465-6740 POSITION STATEMENT: Testified in support of HB 27. TERESA WILLIAMS Assistant Attorney General Fair Business Practices Civil Division (Anchorage) Department of Law 1031 West 4th Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501-1994 Telephone: (907) 269-5100 POSITION STATEMENT: Commented on HB 27. ACTION NARRATIVE TAPE 99-2, SIDE A Number 0001 CO-CHAIRMAN FRED DYSON called the House Health, Education and Social Services Standing Committee meeting to order at 3:02 p.m. Members present at the call to order were Representatives Dyson, Coghill, Whitaker, Morgan and Kemplen. Representative Brice joined the meeting at 3:07 p.m. Representative Green was not present. HB 27-GRADUATE STUDENT LOANS CO-CHAIRMAN DYSON introduced the first order of business as HB 27, "An Act relating to graduate student loans; and providing for an effective date." REPRESENTATIVE ELDON MULDER, Alaska State Legislature, sponsor of HB 27, presented a proposed committee substitute for HB 27 which took care of the technical and housekeeping items. Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the proposed committee substitute pertain to the technical corrections relating to the Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho Medical Education Program (WAMI) discussed earlier. The changes to the original bill are on page 4, sections 4, 5 and 6. DIANE BARRANS, Executive Director, Postsecondary Education Commission, Department of Education, explained the changes on the work draft, which removes the WAMI Program from the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE) Compact statute, where it didn't belong. Section 2 allows for the relocation of that language to the Scholarship, Loans and Grant section of AS 14.43. Section 3 provides the regulatory authority needed by the commission. REPRESENTATIVE MULDER pointed out page 4 of the work draft, where the drafters reworded it to alleviate prior concern over terminology. Section 5, Applicability, specifies that it applies to WICHE on or after July 1, 1999. Section 6, Transition Regulations states that "the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education may immediately proceed to adopt regulations necessary to implement this Act" once this passes. Number 391 TERESA WILLIAMS, Assistant Attorney General, Fair Business Practices, Civil Division (Anchorage), Department of Law, commented that she hadn't actually seen the committee substitute but assumed the draft is comparable to what she sent to Mike Ford. REPRESENTATIVE MULDER acknowledged that information she sent was put into bill form. REPRESENTATIVE WHITAKER made a motion to adopt the proposed committee substitute (CS) for HB 27, version 1-LSO207\D, Ford, 2/4/99, as a work draft. There being no objection, it was adopted. REPRESENTATIVE KEMPLEN made a motion to move CSHB 27, version 1-LS0207\D, Ford, 2/4/99, from committee with individual recommendations. There being no objection, CSHB 27(HES) moved from the House Health, Education and Social Services Standing Committee. Number 554 CO-CHAIRMAN DYSON called for an at-ease at 3:10 p.m. in order to hear the Child Protection System Report. [The minutes for the Child Protection System Report are found in the 3:20 p.m. cover sheet for the same date.]