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    seats the minority is entitled to, fractional numbers that represent                            
    the minority proportional entitlement to a seat shall be ignored.                               
    For purposes of this subsection, "minority" means a group of                                    
    members who have organized and elected a minority leader and                                    
    who constitute at least 25 percent of the total house membership.                               
   Sec. 4.  AS.24.20.181 is amended to read:                                                      
     Sec. 24.20.181.  Vacancies.  When a vacancy occurs in the                                    
    statutory or appointive membership of the committee, the                                        
    presiding officer of the house incurring the vacancy shall choose a                             
    successor.  If the office of the president of the senate or speaker of                          
    the house of representatives becomes vacant and a vacancy from                                  
    the affected house occurs among the membership of the                                           
    committee, the remaining committee members from the house                                       
    incurring the vacancy shall appoint a new member.  After a                                  
    vacancy is filled, the membership of the house that incurred                                
       the vacancy must meet the requirements of AS 24.20.161(b).                              
                                                                                                    
Representative Gruenberg moved and asked unanimous consent that                                     
Amendment No. 1 be adopted.                                                                         
                                                                                                    
Representative Samuels objected.                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Amendment to Amendment No. 1 was offered  by Representative                                          
Berkowitz:                                                                                          
                                                                                                    
 Insert "Sections 2 - 4 of this Act take effect January 1, 2005."                                   
                                                                                                    
Representative Berkowitz moved and asked unanimous consent that                                     
Amendment to Amendment No. 1 be adopted.  There being no                                            
objection, it was so ordered.                                                                       
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
The question being:  "Shall Amendment No. 1 as amended be                                           
adopted?"  The roll was taken with the following result:                                            
                                                                                                    
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Second Reading                                                                                      
Amendment No. 1 as amended                                                                          
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  17   NAYS:  15   EXCUSED:  2   ABSENT:  6