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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Exempt Persons Performing Simple Electrical Repairs from Licensing Requirements’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §1102-A, sub-§10, as amended by PL 2003, c. 551, §1, is further amended to read:
 
10. Pump installers.   A person licensed under chapter 69-C, except that this exception applies only to disconnection and connection of electrical conductors required in the replacement of water pumps of the same or smaller size in residential properties and the installation of new water pumps and associated equipment of 3 horsepower or smaller; or
Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §1102-A, sub-§11, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 551, §2, is amended to read:
 
11. Wastewater treatment plants.   Wastewater treatment plants, as defined in section 4171, and regular employees of wastewater treatment plants making electrical installations in or about wastewater treatment plants.; or
Sec. 3.  32 MRSA §1102-A, sub-§12  is enacted to read:
 
12.  Incidental work.    Regular employees of an owner or a lessee of real property doing incidental electrical work on that property or incidental electrical work by a person whose occupation involves miscellaneous jobs of manual labor. For purposes of this subsection, "incidental electrical work'' means minor electrical work, limited to light fixtures and switches, that occurs by chance and that does not require electrical installation calculations.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment replaces the bill and is a minority report of the committee. This amendment exempts persons doing certain incidental electrical work from the electrician licensing requirements.