2012-03-12                     Senate Journal                      Page 1805
On this date, I have signed the following bill passed by the second                                                             
session of the Twenty-Seventh Alaska State Legislature and am                                                                   
transmitting the engrossed and enrolled copies to the Lieutenant                                                                
Governor's Office for permanent filing:                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
                   CONFERENCE CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 19 "An                                                                     
           Act relating to special request registration plates; and                                                            
          providing for an effective date."                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
                             Chapter 2, SLA 2012                                                                               
                           [Effective Date: 3/8/12]                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
This bill is an expansion of existing statute allowing the Department of                                                        
Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles to design and create                                                                 
additional special request motor vehicle license plates. Although I                                                             
have signed this bill, I am concerned that continuing multiplication of                                                         
new license plate categories may become a challenge. If the practice                                                            
continues, it could detract from legitimate State functions and                                                                 
purposes like public safety and license registration.                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Sincerely,                                                                                                                      
/s/                                                                                                                             
Sean Parnell                                                                                                                    
Governor                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                           Messages from the House                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Message dated March 6 was read stating the House passed and                                                                     
transmitted for consideration:                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
                  First Reading and Reference of House Bills                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
HB 56                                                                                                                         
HOUSE BILL NO. 56 BY REPRESENTATIVES GATTO,                                                                                     
GRUENBERG, LYNN, Olson, Johnson, entitled:                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
            "An Act making arson in the first degree and arson in                                                              
              the second degree serious felonies for purposes of                                                               
          application of the crime of conspiracy."