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House introduces six bills, approves citation and clears routine procedural items
Summary
The Alaska House introduced House Bills 64–69 and referred them to committees, approved a citation honoring Dorothy Brownie Thompson by unanimous consent, granted multiple excused absences, and adopted a waiver to hear HB 68 this week.
During the floor session the House introduced six bills — House Bill 64 through House Bill 69 — and sent each to committee for consideration. Lawmakers also approved a citation honoring Dorothy Brownie Thompson, granted several members excused absences by unanimous consent, and adopted a procedural waiver to allow immediate committee consideration of House Bill 68.
The bills introduced were summarized and referred as follows: House Bill 64 (Rep. Thomas Shefsky) titled “An Act Relating to the Surrender of Infants and Providing for an Effective Day” was referred to Health and Social Services and Judiciary committees; House Bill 65 (Rep. Stutes) authorizes the Alaska Railroad Corporation to issue revenue bonds for replacement of a passenger dock and terminal facility in Seward and was referred to Finance; House Bill 66 (House Rules Committee, by request of the governor) relates to pretrial services supervision agreements and was referred to Regional Affairs and Judiciary with an attached letter and fiscal note; House Bill 67 (House Rules Committee, by request of the governor) is another Alaska Railroad revenue-bond measure for Seward with an attached letter and fiscal note and was referred to Finance; House Bill 68 (House Labor and Commerce Committee) concerns the sale of alcohol and posting of alcoholic beverage warning signs and is assigned to Labor and Commerce and Health and Social Services; and House Bill 69 (Rep. Hemshutt) relates to education funding and was referred to Education and Finance committees.
On motions and unanimous-consent items: the majority leader asked unanimous consent to excuse Representatives McCabe and Rauscher from a call of the House; the Clerk later announced those excusals. The majority leader also moved and obtained unanimous consent to waive notice and publication requirements so a citation honoring Dorothy Brownie Thompson could be made a special order; the House approved the citation by unanimous consent. Representative Fields moved and the House adopted, by unanimous consent, a waiver of Uniform Rule 23(a) to permit the Labor and Commerce Committee to hear House Bill 68 during the transition between the legislature’s first and second weeks. The House also recorded committee meeting notices on the floor, referrals of an executive order (Executive Order Number 136) to the Resources and Finance committees, and the governor’s nominations of University of Alaska regents to the Education Committee.
Several committee meeting announcements and floor logistics items were reported before the House adjourned to a date and time set by unanimous consent.
