SENATE BILL REPORT

                   SB 6604

              As Passed Senate, February 14, 1998

Title:  An act relating to premanufactured electric power generation equipment.

Brief Description:  Allowing the department of labor and industries to exempt specified work on premanufactured electric power generation equipment from licensing requirements.

Sponsors:  Senators Schow, Heavey and Horn.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  Commerce & Labor:  2/6/98 [DP].

Passed Senate, 2/14/98, 46-0.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE & LABOR

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators Schow, Chair; Horn, Vice Chair; Anderson, Heavey and Newhouse.

Staff:  Genevieve Pisarski (786-7488)

Background:  Electrical work must be performed by a licensed electrician unless an exemption applies to the work.

Summary of Bill:  The Department of Labor and Industries can exempt by rule the testing, repair, modification, maintenance, or component installation work performed on premanufactured electric power generation equipment assemblies and control gear.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  The work in question is internal to generators.  Those involved have agreed that exemption should be accomplished by rule, and it is necessary to give authorization to the department.

Testimony Against:  None

Testified:  PRO:  Mark Triplett, NC/CAT; Pat and Norman Frey, Clover Corporation.