Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Commerce
Room:    413
Date:    Thursday, February 20, 2003
Time:    10:00 AM



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         SB 186     impose an additional tax on certain alcoholic beverages and to distribute the revenue.
             Senators Dempster, de Hueck, Koskan, and Symens and Representatives Adelstein, Begalka, Bradford, Koistinen, Teupel, and Van Gerpen

         SB 196     establish a presumption regarding occupational diseases affecting firefighters.
             Senators Koetzle, Kloucek, and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Miles and Lintz

         SB 197     create an infectious disease presumption regarding certain occupational disease disabilities.
             Senators Koetzle, Kloucek, and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Miles and Lintz

         HB 1047*     revise certain provisions concerning the requirements for utilization review and grievances for health carriers.
             The Committee on Commerce at the request of the Department of Commerce and Regulation

         HB 1090*     provide that certain vehicle leases are not sales or security interests.
             Representatives Pederson (Gordon), Fryslie, and Lintz and Senator Vitter

         HB 1128*     revise the requirements for notice of nonrenewal for surety insurance.
             Representatives Solum and Smidt and Senators Sutton (Dan) and Abdallah

NOTE: The above bills will be taken up in this order for a hearing on the date noted. If circumstances do not permit a hearing on this date then a hearing will be held at a future meeting of the committee to be determined by the chair. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

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ROYAL "MAC" MCCRACKEN, Chair