Representative Marcus E. Richmond

ALC - Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee — Dec. 18, 2019 (49:13)

Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, sir. thank you

ALC - Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee — Dec. 18, 2019 (48:50)

fee. Did you just go ahead and pay that because

ALC - Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee — Dec. 18, 2019 (48:52)

you expect them to be late on their thing? How does that work? I didn't know how to put that in.

ALC - Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee — Dec. 18, 2019 (48:29)

a couple of things concerning the fees I see that there's a penalty fee and it says once you have to pay that and then also on the exam fee with the do they have to pay that if they fail the exam Of course, I would think that they would have to pay that each and every time that they take the exam. I don't understand the penalty

ALC - Occupational Licensing Review Subcommittee — Dec. 18, 2019 (47:01)

expand just a little bit on the on the test that that folks do just a little bit of explanation of what it is that they I mean do they get up and have to give a an auctioneer line of what they're doing or Or is it mostly written?

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:46:41)

questions, sorry. All right, question. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Did the Department of Agri, are they okay with this bill? Yes. All right, thank you. All

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:42:23)

could alleviate this problem, first of all, such as if you do have a test that is higher than it's supposed to be, maybe a fine, but the real intent is to fix the problem. Correct. Okay, thank you. All right. Committee, any other questions? Seeing none, do we

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:42:02)

you mr chair so the the real issue that you're trying to address here is these predatory lawyers from out of state that are actually coming after our farmers because again they're looking at an opportunity to make a considerable amount of money, possibly, and that you're trying to administratively create a situation that

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:26:52)

with those bad players? Well, we're not an enforcement organization. I'm not asking to enforce. I'm asking you, you know, you're saying voluntary. We want to be voluntary. But what have you've done, I would think that because you don't want more regulations, that you would be proactive in trying to identify the people who just don't want to do it and say, hey, listen, you're putting us all at risk. I mean, that's just

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:26:39)

Follow up. And what has your organization, what have you and some of the other organizations done to identify the bad players and maybe have conversations

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:24:35)

and you guys are going to be the ones, the good actors, will be the ones that pay the heaviest price

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:24:02)

and that if this doesn't get corrected and it doesn't seem like you're able to self-police successfully, then there's going to be another accident. There's going to be another situation that's going to happen, and instead of a scratch, you're going to have a sucking chest wound, and we're going to come in here, and we're going to load you down with some really serious regulations. So, again, I just think that you're going to have to look at this very carefully and decide how you're going to approach it because something else bad will happen in the future,

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:23:29)

Yes, sir. Marcus? Thank you, Mr. Chair. As you said, you referred to this as a Band-Aid application. And right now, I understand, you know, that you have a few bad actors, and it's kind of like gun laws. You're trying to fix bad actors, and you're bringing in all the good actors, too, while you're trying to take care of a specific individual that may not be able to be taken care of. The concern is that this is a soft-glob approach, in my opinion, of trying to correct the problem,

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (1:06:40)

I'm sorry, but just help me out here. How is this going to help prevent, like, the accidents that were on the highway and the canceling of soccer games and things? Just clarify that just a

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (9:00)

I mean, or is one more severe than the other? And the reason I ask that is that if one's more severe than the other, because I apologize for not being familiar with the code, but if one's more severe than the other, then I can see $100,000. But if what you're trying to deal with here is not as severe, then maybe that is

Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development (House) — April 2, 2025 (8:30)

Representative Richmond. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Beck, you used basically your justification for increasing from $500,000 to $100,000 is to use the same penalty in different code, in code that already exists. My question is, is the severity of the violations for that code and what you're trying to cover here, are they similar?

City, County & Local Affairs Committee (Senate & House) — Jan. 13, 2020 (1:25:56)

the sticking point all right thank you sir thank you senator

City, County & Local Affairs Committee (Senate & House) — Jan. 13, 2020 (1:24:02)

Mr. Chair? Yes. Senator Clark, I remember going through this on City, County, Local, but I can't recall why the Municipal League took the position that they did. Do you recall that, and could you re-educate me on that? Yes, Senator, you're recognized. Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair.

City, County & Local Affairs Committee (Senate & House) — Jan. 13, 2020 (1:22:23)

of these water districts and stuff would that improve the situation and why i listen to your testimony it seems to me that you have a great deal of responsibility but hardly any authority to carry out those responsibilities and finally legislatively what we proposed this last time around would it have provided you that authority necessary in order to address some of these issues and problems and why did the municipal league stand against it thank you all right

City, County & Local Affairs Committee (Senate & House) — Jan. 13, 2020 (1:22:10)

i'm going to make it one question but it's got like three parts here so try to keep up with me first of all just uh listing this would consolidation of the some