1995-02-13                     House Journal                      Page 0337
HB 178                                                                       
The five areas are not unfamiliar to the Legislature.  The Department          
of Corrections is under court order to correct problems in the prisons.        
The mental health lands settlement which was accepted by Judge                 
Greene in December requires that we establish the Mental Health Trust          
Authority immediately.  Response to last summer's Koyukuk River                
flood requires expenditures in excess of the amounts in the disaster           
relief fund.  There are serious consequences to leaving trooper                
positions vacant, as necessitated by the funding level approved last           
spring.  Finally, the Legislature expressly funded oil and gas litigation      
for only one half of the year.  Additional information relating to these       
requests is available to the Legislature from the Office of Management         
and Budget.                                                                    
                                                                               
I urge your early consideration and passage of these supplementals.            
                                                                               
							Sincerely,                                                              
							/s/                                                                     
							Tony Knowles                                                            
							Governor"                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
HB 179                                                                       
HOUSE BILL NO. 179 by Representative Therriault, entitled:                     
                                                                               
"An Act relating to the commissioner of education and the                     
commissioner of fish and game; and providing for an effective                  
date."                                                                         
                                                                               
was read the first time and referred to the House Special Committee            
on Fisheries, and the Health, Education & Social Services and Finance          
Committees.                                                                    
                                                                               
                                                                               
                     CONSIDERATION OF THE DAILY CALENDAR                     
                                                                               
                        SECOND READING OF HOUSE BILLS                        
                                                                               
HB 26                                                                        
The following was read the second time: