00HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 23                                                                                    
01 Proposing an amendment to the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature                                             
02 relating to minutes for committee meetings; and providing for an effective date.                                        
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
04    * Section 1.  Rule 23(f), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, is amended to                             
05 read:                                                                                                                   
06  (f)  Each standing, special, and joint committee shall                                                                
07   (1)  record its meetings electronically and prepare a log of the recording                                           
08 adequate to locate specific testimony;                                                                                  
09   (2)  prepare minutes of each meeting of the committee on a standard                                                  
10 form prescribed jointly by the Rules Committees of the house and the senate; the                                        
11 minutes  must  [SHALL] include                                                                                        
12   (A)  a list of the names of each member present during the                                                          
13 meeting;                                                                                                                
14   (B)  a list of the name and affiliation of each witness testifying                                                  

01 before the committee;                                                                                                   
02   (C)  [A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE POSITION OF THE                                                                      
03 WITNESS ON] the subject  each witness  testified upon; and                                                            
04   (D)  each amendment formally considered by the committee, the                                                       
05 name of the member moving adoption of the amendment, the action taken on                                                
06 the amendment, and the yeas and nays if a committee member has requested                                                
07 a roll call vote on adoption of an amendment;                                                                           
08   (3) maintain a chronological file of minutes, copies of which shall be                                               
09 made available upon request;                                                                                            
10   (4)  make available to the Legislative Affairs Agency a copy of all                                                  
11 minutes of committee meetings during the session for entry of the minutes as a data                                     
12 base on the legislative computer system;                                                                                
13   (5)  at the end of the second session of each legislature, deliver to the                                            
14 legislative reference library                                                                                           
15   (A)  a binder that contains an index and copies of all minutes                                                      
16 filed by date;                                                                                                          
17   (B)  tapes of committee meetings and logs for those tapes                                                           
18 prepared under (1) of this subsection; and                                                                              
19   (C)  a file for each bill or subject considered by the committee                                                    
20 that includes written testimony submitted to the committee, state agency                                                
21 position papers and memoranda, bill drafts considered by the committee, letters                                         
22 of intent adopted by the committee, and other materials of research value.                                              
23    * Sec. 2.  The amendment proposed by this resolution takes effect immediately.