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House Resources Committee rescinds and then advances House Special Concurrent Resolution 1, 4-3
Summary
At the Feb. 17 hearing the committee first voted 4-3 to rescind prior action on House Special Concurrent Resolution 1, then voted 4-3 to move HSCR 1 from committee to the full House. Both votes were recorded as 4 yeas and 3 nays; the transcript records objections but does not document full roll-call names for both motions.
The Alaska House Resources Committee on Feb. 17, 2025, conducted two recorded procedural votes on House Special Concurrent Resolution 1. First, a motion to rescind prior committee action on HSCR 1 carried by a vote of 4 yeas and 3 nays. Later in the same meeting, the committee voted 4-3 to move House Special Concurrent Resolution 1 from committee to the floor.
The motions were taken after routine opening business. A member objected to both motions; Representative Rauscher maintained an objection when the clerk called the roll during the first vote. The committee clerk announced the result of each roll call as "4 yeas, 3 nays." The transcript does not record a full, unambiguous named roll call for the second motion, and multiple speaker-name variants appear in the record.
Both actions were procedural and did not, on their face, enact substantive policy changes; the transcript shows the committee then proceeded to House Bill 79. The record provided to the committee shows the vote tallies but does not identify every member's vote for the second motion in a way that can be unambiguously resolved from the transcript.
