CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON HB 2069
June 29, 2005 Hearing Room D
8:00 A.M. Tape 1
MEMBERS PRESENT: Rep. Alan Brown, Chair
Sen. Avel Gordly
Rep. Derrick Kitts
Sen. Rick Metsger
Sen. Frank Morse
Rep. Mike Schaufler
STAFF PRESENT: Janet
Adkins, Committee Administrator
Katie Howard, Committee Assistant
MEASURES/ISSUES HEARD:
HB 2069-B – Work Session
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Speaker |
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TAPE 1, A |
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Chair Brown |
Calls the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. Opens a work
session on HB 2069-B. |
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HB
2069-B – WORK SESSION |
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Janet Adkins |
Committee Administrator. Explains HB 2069-B. Submits
the –B10 amendments (EXHIBIT A). |
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Sen. Gordly |
Asks if language regarding continuing education and
professional standards is being removed from the bill. |
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Adkins |
Answers that the provisions were removed in the
Senate process. |
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053 |
Sen. Gordly |
Asks for an explanation of the impact of removing
the language. |
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058 |
Sen. Metsger |
Explains that the provisions were added in the House
version of the bill and removed by the Senate Committee on Business and
Economic Development. |
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061 |
Mike Snyder |
Landscape Contractors Board (LCB). Explains the
aforementioned provisions that have been removed from the bill. Explains that
the intent of the bill is to allow LCB to put an inactive status on
contractors’ licenses, allow a stepped increase in the landscaping bonding requirement
and allow a landscaping company to be put in probation if they have more than
three claims made against them in a 12-month period. Notes the language
citing the difference between “landscape business” and “landscape
contractor”. |
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090 |
Snyder |
Mentions the provisions that allow employees of
landscaping businesses to do the work of landscape contractor when under the
direct supervision of a licensed landscape contractor and allow general
contractors to perform up to $3000 worth of work on custom-built homes.
Describes the language change from “decorative vegetation” to “nursery
stock”. Describes the language change from “backflow device” to “backflow
assembly”. |
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Chair Brown |
Asks why the continuing education language was
deleted. |
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119 |
Snyder |
Responds that re-certification of landscape
contractors was contingent on continuing education. Explains the objections
to the continuing education provision raised in the Senate Committee on
Business and Economic Development by a group of landscape contractors. |
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135 |
Bill Cross |
Oregon Landscape Contractors Association (OLCA).
Submits written testimony in support of SB 2069-B containing proposed
amendments (EXHIBIT B). Explains
the provisions regarding exemption from licensure requirements while working
under the supervision of a licensed landscape contractor. Describes the
relationship of the bill to HB 2097 in the House Committee on Budget and HB
2582 allowing a landscaping business to operate out of a nursery on land
designated as exclusive farm use. Points out that HB 2582 is in the Senate
Committee on Rules and is asking that the bill be placed in SB 2069B with
support in the House and the Senate. |
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175 |
Sen. Gordly |
Asks for an explanation of why LCB would not be
required to establish a standard of professional conduct for landscape
contractors and landscaping businesses. |
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180 |
Cross |
States that some of the landscape contractors were
worried about the economic impact on small businesses of establishing a code
of ethics and continuing education requirements. |
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207 |
Sen. Gordly |
Asks if landscape contractors have standards for
professional conduct. |
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217 |
Cross |
States that the LCB does not have the authority to
adopt standards of professional conduct. Explains the work of the OLCA and
the LCB developing standards of conduct. |
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244 |
Sen. Morse |
Asks what the past practice has been to licensing
employees and how the amendments would change it. |
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249 |
Cross |
Says that the Construction Contractors Board (CCB)
and the LCB have never required landscape maintenance workers to be licensed.
Notes that the Department of Justice said that the LCB needed statutes to
require the licensing process. |
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Rep. Brown
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MOTION: Moves HB 2069-B to the floor with the
recommendation that the House CONCUR in Senate amendments dated 6/3/05 and
that the bill be FURTHER AMENDED by adopting the –B10 amendments and the
measure be REPASSED. |
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VOTE:
6-0-0 AYE: In a roll call vote, all members present vote Aye. |
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Chair Brown |
The motion CARRIES. REP. KITTS AND SEN. BRUCE STARR will
lead discussion on the floor. |
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290 |
Chair Brown |
Closes the work session on HB 2069-B. Adjourns the
meeting. |
EXHIBIT
SUMMARY