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House action roundup: child-protection registry, primary-care amendments and other concurrence items
Summary
The House took several concurrence votes and quick actions March 3, 2004: it concurred with Senate amendments to the child protection registry (first substitute HB 165, 66-0) and to primary care network amendments (HB 86, 53-16), and handled other Senate transmissions; House action on HB 138 (trespass on State Parklands) failed at concurrence and prompted a subsequent motion to refuse to concur.
The House disposed of multiple concurrence calendar items during the March 3 session.
Child protection registry (HB 165). Representative Styler described Senate amendments and a phased rollout of the registry contact points (email first, then instant messaging, telephone, fax and electronic addresses), along with a sponsor-read disclosure informing registrants that no solution is completely secure. Representative Dougal and others supported the sponsor's effort to address privacy and security concerns. The House concurred with the Senate amendments and first substitute HB 165 passed 66-0.
Primary Care Network (HB 86). Representative Holdaway explained compromises to secure partial funding for the Primary Care Network by adjusting the annual enrollment fee. The sponsor said the amendment raised the enrollment fee to $25 (from a previous amount of $15) and reduced the fiscal note from $110,000 to $65,000 to facilitate funding. The House concurred with the Senate amendments to HB 86; the bill passed 53-16.
Trespass on State Parklands (HB 138). Representative Cheryl Allen moved to concur with Senate amendments that expand the statute's applicability to lands administered by other agencies via contractual agreements (citing Range Creek); the amendment also removed language criminalizing intentional grazing and left triple damages language in place. Several members, including Representative Yer, expressed concern about public notice and the reach of triple-damages penalties on contract-administered land. The House voted on concurrence and the motion failed; subsequent procedural motions followed.
Other items. The reading clerk also transmitted a number of Senate-passed House bills for the Speaker's signature and referred items to enrollment and the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel.
