2001-04-30                     Senate Journal                      Page 1353
HB 204                                                                                            
HOUSE BILL NO. 204 BY THE HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE BY                                                  
REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR, entitled:                                                                  
                                                                                                    
          "An Act relating to the Alaska Commission on                                              
          Postsecondary Education and the Alaska Student                                            
          Loan Corporation; relating to student financial aid                                       
          programs and the financing of those programs;                                             
          establishing the Alaska Advantage Loan Program and                                        
          the Alaska Supplemental Education Loan Program;                                           
          increasing the bonding authorization of the Alaska                                        
          Student Loan Corporation; providing for liens                                             
          resulting from a default under AS 14.43 or AS 14.44;                                      
          relating to the duties of the recorder regarding those                                    
          liens; relating to defaults under the Western Regional                                    
          Higher Education Compact; relating to the                                                 
          prohibition on discrimination regarding programs                                          
          under AS 14.43; relating to fees for the review of                                        
          certain postsecondary institutions; making                                                
          conforming amendments; and providing for an                                               
          effective date."                                                                          
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the Finance Committee.                                      
                                                                                                    
HB 234                                                                                            
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 234(FIN) am BY THE HOUSE                                                      
FINANCE COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                                        
                                                                                                    
          "An Act relating to the tobacco use education and                                         
          cessation fund and to smoking education and                                               
          cessation programs; relating to funding the tobacco                                       
          use education and cessation fund; relating to                                             
          financing of construction and major maintenance of                                        
          public school facilities, facilities for the University of                                
          Alaska, and facilities for ports and harbors;                                             
          authorizing the commissioner of revenue to sell the                                       
          right to receive a portion of the anticipated revenue                                     
          from a tobacco litigation settlement to the Northern                                      
          Tobacco Securitization Corporation; relating to the                                       
          deposit of certain anticipated revenue from a tobacco