1999-04-23                     Senate Journal                      Page 1072
SB 99                                                                        
HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 99(JUD) am H An                            
Act providing for preparation for redistricting before appointment of          
the Redistricting Board; relating to preclearance under the Voting             
Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and legal representation of the state          
in matters concerning redistricting; clarifying the meaning of                 
decennial census of the United States in art. VI, Constitution of the          
State of Alaska; relating to adjustment of census numbers by using             
estimates, population surveys, or sampling in the redistricting of the         
house of representatives and the senate; and prohibiting expenditures          
of public funds for population surveys or sampling for certain                 
purposes relating to legislative redistricting without an appropriation;       
and providing for an effective date was enrolled, signed by the                
President and Secretary, Speaker and Chief Clerk and the engrossed             
and enrolled copies transmitted to the Office of the Governor at 2:55          
p.m., April 23, 1999.