2005-02-23                     House Journal                      Page 0395
HCS CSSB 56(FIN) am H will advance to third reading on tomorrow's                                   
calendar.                                                                                           
                                                                                                    
SB 62                                                                                             
The following was read the second time:                                                             
                                                                                                    
    SENATE BILL NO. 62                                                                              
    "An Act making a supplemental appropriation for increased                                       
    operating costs of the division of elections; and providing for an                              
    effective date."                                                                                
                                                                                                    
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Amendment No. 1 was offered  by Representative Croft:                                                
                                                                                                    
Page 1, following line 3, insert a new bill section to read:                                        
                                                                                                    
   "*Section 1.  The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended                             
by adding a new section to read:                                                                    
 LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.   (a)  The legislature                                            
finds that                                                                                          
  (1)  Alaska law requires that the Division of Elections and the                                   
Lieutenant Governor write a "a true and impartial summary of the                                    
proposed law" (AS 15.45.180) for each initiative on the ballot; and                                 
  (2)  for an initiative on the 2004 general election ballot, the                                   
Lieutenant Governor prepared a summary that was found by the                                        
Anchorage Superior Court to be biased and inaccurate; and                                           
  (3)  at great expense to the state, the Lieutenant Governor's                                     
decision eventually forced the Division of Elections to reprint                                     
thousands of ballots with the proper, impartial summary of the                                      
proposed law; and                                                                                   
  (4)  if the Lieutenant Governor had followed the law set out in                                   
AS 15.45.180, the State of Alaska would not have incurred this great                                
cost.                                                                                               
 (b)  It is the intent of this Legislature                                                          
  (1)  to appropriate the supplemental funds to cover the costs                                     
incurred by the state for only the specific instance described in (a) of                            
this section; and