2002-02-01                     House Journal                      Page 2124
Amendment No. 1 was offered  by Representative Berkowitz:                                            
                                                                                                    
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 "WHEREAS recognizing that receipts to Alaska from estate taxes                                   
totaled $2,683,080 in FY '01, $2,455,527 in FY '00, $1,726,985 in FY                                
'99, and that elimination of the death tax would exacerbate the state's                             
fiscal gap;"                                                                                        
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Representative Berkowitz moved and asked unanimous consent that                                     
Amendment No. 1 be adopted.                                                                         
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Representative James objected.                                                                      
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
The question being:  "Shall Amendment No. 1 be adopted?"  The roll                                  
was taken with the following result:                                                                
                                                                                                    
HJR 35                                                                                              
Second Reading                                                                                      
Amendment No. 1                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  14   NAYS:  21   EXCUSED:  5   ABSENT:  0                                                  
                                                                                                    
Yeas:  Berkowitz, Cissna, Crawford, Croft, Davies, Guess, Halcro,                                   
Hayes, Hudson, Joule, Kapsner, Kerttula, Kookesh, Moses                                             
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Coghill, Dyson, Fate, Foster, Green, Harris, James, Kohring,                                 
Lancaster, Masek, Meyer, Morgan, Mulder, Murkowski, Ogan, Porter,                                   
Rokeberg, Scalzi, Stevens, Whitaker, Wilson                                                         
                                                                                                    
Excused:  Bunde, Chenault, Kott, McGuire, Williams                                                  
                                                                                                    
And so, Amendment No. 1 was not adopted.