00HOUSE BILL NO. 2001                                                                                                   
01 "An Act authorizing the Alaska Legislative Council to sue on behalf of the state                                        
02 concerning the validity of a rural subsistence priority conferred in federal statute;                                   
03 and providing for an effective date."                                                                                   
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05    * Section 1.  The Alaska Legislative Council may sue on behalf of the state as the plaintiff                       
06 in Legislative Council v. Babbitt, Civil No. 1:98CV0069(JR), United States District Court for                           
07 the District of Columbia to determine whether the rural subsistence priority conferred in Title                         
08 VIII, Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, P.L. 96-487, as amended, violates the                            
09 Constitution of the United States.                                                                                      
10    * Sec. 2.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).