2009-04-16                     Senate Journal                      Page 0989
          SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 17                                                                                        
          Designating 2009 as the Year of the                                                                                   
          Noncommissioned Officer Corps of the United States                                                                    
          Army.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
The resolution was referred to the Secretary for enrollment.                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
SB 45                                                                                                                         
Message dated April 15 was read stating the House passed and                                                                    
returned:                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
          CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 45(FIN) "An Act                                                                                
          relating to state employment preferences for veterans,                                                                
          former prisoners of war, and members of the Alaska                                                                    
          National Guard; authorizing the Department of                                                                         
          Military and Veterans' Affairs to establish and                                                                       
          maintain Alaska veterans' cemeteries; establishing the                                                                
          Alaska veterans' cemetery fund in the general fund;                                                                   
          and authorizing the legislature to appropriate income                                                                 
          from fees collected for commemorative veterans'                                                                       
          plates to the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund."                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Messages dated April 15 were read stating the House passed and                                                                  
transmitted for consideration:                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
                        First Reading and Reference of                                                                       
                              House Resolutions                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
HCR 16                                                                                                                        
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 16 am BY                                                                                        
REPRESENTATIVES HARRIS, Stoltze, Foster, Chenault, Joule,                                                                       
Fairclough, Thomas, Munoz, Millett, Olson, Neuman, Edgmon,                                                                      
Wilson, Seaton, Dahlstrom, Lynn, Coghill, Johansen, Kelly, Keller,                                                              
Hawker, Herron, Johnson, Ramras, Gatto, Austerman, Kerttula,                                                                    
Gruenberg, Guttenberg, Salmon, Gara, Buch, Cissna, Crawford,                                                                    
Doogan, Gardner, Holmes, Kawasaki, Petersen, Tuck,