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SB 48                                                                                             
Senator Bunde requested that the reconsideration on CS FOR                                          
SENATE BILL NO. 48(HES) "An Act relating to recommending or                                         
refusing psychotropic drugs or certain types of evaluations or                                      
treatments for children" be taken up. The bill was before the Senate on                             
reconsideration.                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Senator Bunde moved that the bill be returned to second reading for                                 
the purpose of a specific amendment, that being Amendment No. 1.                                    
Without objection, the bill was returned to second reading.                                         
                                                                                                    
Senator Bunde offered Amendment No. 1 :                                                              
                                                                                                    
Page 3, following line 21:                                                                          
     Insert a new section to read:                                                                  
          "Sec. 14.30.175. At risk students. Notwithstanding                                      
     AS 14.30.171(3) and (5) and 14.30.174(a), a principal or other                                 
     person in charge of a public school who reasonably believes that a                             
     student is at risk of causing harm to self or others, may require a                            
     psychiatric or behavioral health evaluation of a child."                                       
                                                                                                    
Senator Bunde moved for the adoption of Amendment No. 1. Senator                                    
Davis objected.                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 1 be adopted?" The roll                                    
was taken with the following result:                                                                
                                                                                                    
CSSB  48(HES)                                                                                       
Second Reading                                                                                      
Amendment No. 1                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  6   NAYS:  14   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                   
                                                                                                    
Yeas:  Bunde, Green, Stedman, Stevens G, Therriault, Wilken                                         
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Cowdery, Davis, Dyson, Ellis, Elton, French, Guess, Hoffman,                                 
Huggins, Kookesh, Olson, Seekins, Stevens B, Wagoner                                                
                                                                                                    
and so, Amendment No. 1 failed.                                                                     

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CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 48(HES) was automatically in third                                           
reading on reconsideration.                                                                         
                                                                                                    
The question to be reconsidered: "Shall CS FOR SENATE BILL NO.                                      
48(HES) "An Act relating to recommending or refusing psychotropic                                   
drugs or certain types of evaluations or treatments for children" pass                              
the Senate?" The roll was taken with the following result:                                          
                                                                                                    
CSSB  48(HES)                                                                                       
Third Reading - On Reconsideration                                                                  
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  16   NAYS:  4   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                   
                                                                                                    
Yeas:  Cowdery, Davis, Dyson, Ellis, Elton, French, Guess, Hoffman,                                 
Huggins, Kookesh, Olson, Seekins, Stedman, Stevens B, Stevens G,                                    
Wagoner                                                                                             
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Bunde, Green, Therriault, Wilken                                                             
                                                                                                    
Therriault changed from "Yea" to "Nay".                                                             
                                                                                                    
and so, CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 48(HES) passed the Senate on                                         
reconsideration and was referred to the Secretary for engrossment.