HOUSE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM

May 29, 2003 Hearing Room E

3:00 PM Tape 69

MEMBERS PRESENT: Rep. Tim Knopp, Chair

Rep. Alan Brown, Vice-Chair

Rep. Jeff Barker

Rep. Tom Butler

Rep. Greg Macpherson

Rep. Mary Nolan

Rep. Dennis Richardson

Rep. Wayne Scott

MEMBER EXCUSED: Rep. Deborah Kafoury, Vice-Chair

STAFF PRESENT: Cara Filsinger, Administrator

Annetta Mullins, Committee Assistant

MEASURE/ISSUES HEARD: HB 2978 – Work Session

HB 2979 – Work Session

HB 2980 – Work Session

HB 2981 – Work Session

HB 2982 – Work Session

These minutes are in compliance with Senate and House Rules. Only text enclosed in quotation marks reports a speaker’s exact words. For complete contents, please refer to the tapes.

TAPE/#	Speaker	Comments
Tape 69, A
003	Chair Knopp	Calls meeting to order at 3:07 p.m. and opens a work session on HB 2978 for the purpose of referring it to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs
HB 2978 – WORK SESSION
007	Rep. Brown	MOTION: Moves HB 2978 to the floor WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION as to passage and BE REFERRED to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
012	Rep. Macpherson	Comments that he intends to vote against all the referrals of bills that are designed to change the landscape of collective bargaining for public employees. States it seems undesirable in the wake of the things this committee has done affecting people’s statutorily assured benefits under the retirement system.
		VOTE: 5-3-1 AYE: 5 - Brown, Butler, Richardson, Scott, Knopp NAY: 3 - Barker, Macpherson, Nolan EXCUSED: 1 - Kafoury
	Chair Knopp	The motion CARRIES.
029	Chair Knopp	Closes the work session on HB 2978 and opens a work session on HB 2979 for the purpose of referring it to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
HB 2979 – WORK SESSION
030	Rep. Brown	MOTION: Moves HB 2979 to the floor WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION as to passage and BE REFERRED to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
033		VOTE: 5-3-1 AYE: 5 - Brown, Butler, Richardson, Scott, Knopp NAY: 3 - Barker, Macpherson, Nolan EXCUSED: 1 - Kafoury
	Chair Knopp	The motion CARRIES.
039	Chair Knopp	Closes the work session on HB 2979 and opens a work session on HB 2980 for the purpose of referring it to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
HB 2980 – WORK SESSION
041	Rep. Brown	MOTION: Moves HB 2980 to the floor WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION as to passage and BE REFERRED to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
033		VOTE: 5-3-1 AYE: 5 - Brown, Butler, Richardson, Scott, Knopp NAY: 3 - Barker, Macpherson, Nolan EXCUSED: 1 - Kafoury
	Chair Knopp	The motion CARRIES.
	Chair Knopp	Closes the work session on HB 2980 and opens a work session on HB 2981 for the purpose of referring it to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
HB 2981 – WORK SESSION
052	Rep. Brown	MOTION: Moves HB 2981 to the floor WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION as to passage and BE REFERRED to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
054		VOTE: 5-3-1 AYE: 5 - Brown, Butler, Richardson, Scott, Knopp NAY: 3 - Barker, Macpherson, Nolan EXCUSED: 1 - Kafoury
	Chair Knopp	The motion CARRIES.
	Chair Knopp	Closes the work session on HB 2981 and opens a work session on HB 2982 for the purpose of referring it to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
HB 2982 – WORK SESSION
060	Rep. Barker	Asks if the committee has previously talked about HB 2982.
	Chair Knopp	Responds that the committee has not had a public hearing and that a public hearing is not required when moving a bill to another committee.
066	Rep. Brown	MOTION: Moves HB 2982 to the floor WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION as to passage and BE REFERRED to the Committee on Rules and Public Affairs.
069	Rep. Barker	Asks what the bill means.
	Chair Knopp	Responds that is what the Rules Committee will determine and the motion is to only move the bill to another committee.
079		VOTE: 5-3-1 AYE: 5 - Brown, Butler, Richardson, Scott, Knopp NAY: 3 - Barker, Macpherson, Nolan EXCUSED: 1 - Kafoury
	Chair Knopp	The motion CARRIES.
084	Chair Knopp	Closes the work session on HB 2982 and announces that they are still working on amendments to SB 325 A and that the committee will not consider SB 325 A today.
	Chair Knopp	Announces that the committee will wait for direction from the Speaker about when the committee might meet and take up SB 325 A.
094	Chair Knopp	Adjourns meeting at 3:13 p.m.

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