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Vice Chair Titone argued that employment termination for uncooperative witnesses — modeled on California's tested statute — is necessary because without consequences any subpoena process would yield nothing. Senator Baisley countered that imposing individual employment consequences on employees of another branch of government 'might be overreaching' and proposed leveraging funding as a more traditional accountability tool. Madam Chair agreed with Baisley that making recommendations to the state personnel board and state controller was 'not our lane.' Titone rebutted that taking away funding 'does not really compel anyone, especially in an administration that doesn't have a lot of time left,' and suggested fines as an alternative.
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“I'm just nervous that even if we did entertain a subpoena to find more information about what we are not able to get our hands on, that there would be an unwillingness to tell us what we want to know because there are no consequences. And without consequences, people will not tell us, and it will be an exercise of futility. And I don't want to do that. I want the process to actually yield some kind of result. So if there's no stick attached to the request, there's no yielding anything.”
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Sign in to subscribeWelcome to order. Mr. Gravy, will you please call the roll? Senators and Representatives Basley. President Kelty. Here. Pascal. Here. Rodriguez. Vice Chair Tatone. Here. Madam Chair. Here. All right, we have a lot on our plate this morning. We are going to start with a vote to draft the CDLE bill. I'm going to pass to Ms. Falco, explain what that looks like and then we'll, we'll go from there. Samantha Falco, Legislative Council Staff this is on behalf of the Department of Labor and Employment. The divisions of workers compensation has two separate but related technology upgrades happening and the first being for an electronic data filing system and an internal claim management system. These have all been appropriated and approved by the legislature but they are requesting that the committee helps by changing the statute to allow to update the Workers Compensation act to modernize filing requirements and clean up some outdated requirements. So it's a technical statute change just to allow for change in their electronic filing processes. Okay, fantastic. And just so we can understand what is the origin of this bill? Draft, draft, request. CDLE came. They did present this to the committee when…
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