00CS FOR SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 8(RLS)                                                                          
01 Approving in part the revised open meetings guidelines proposed by the Select                                           
02 Committee on Legislative Ethics.                                                                                        
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04  WHEREAS, in sec. 10, ch. 69, SLA 1994, the Eighteenth Alaska State Legislature                                         
05 directed the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics to submit proposed initial guidelines                               
06 applying the open meetings principles to the legislature and the committee submitted revised                            
07 guidelines that were published in the House and Senate Joint Journal Supplement No. 9, on                               
08 February 21, 1995;                                                                                                      
09  BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the revised initial guidelines                                     
10 applying the open meetings principles to the legislature as published in House and Senate Joint                         
11 Journal Supplement No. 9 are affirmed, except as listed in the paragraphs below, and to the                             
12 extent that the guidelines do not conflict with or add to the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State                         
13 Legislature; and be it                                                                                                  
14  FURTHER RESOLVED the guidelines shall be implemented to be consistent with                                             

01 the fact that the presiding officer of a house of the legislature is the final arbiter on any point                     
02 of order, subject only to appeal upheld by a majority of the membership of the body; and be                             
03 it                                                                                                                      
04  FURTHER RESOLVED that the part of the guidelines that addresses "Go Between                                            
05 or Serial Meetings" cannot be affirmed until the meaning of the phrase is clarified; and be it                          
06  FURTHER RESOLVED those parts of the guidelines that address the topics of                                              
07 "Meetings Not Otherwise Described" and political strategy sessions and that define "non-legislative organization"  are  
08 not affirmed.