2012-04-26                     Senate Journal                      Page 2438
  I am withdrawing from the call the following subject:                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
  (1) relating to oil and gas production taxes.                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
This proclamation supplements my proclamation of April 16, 2012.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Dated at Juneau, Alaska this 25th day of April, 2012.                                                                           
/s/                                                                                                                             
Sean Parnell, Governor                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Senator Meyer moved and asked unanimous consent to take up a                                                                    
Sense of the Senate. Without objection, the following Sense of the                                                              
Senate was taken up:                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
                                     Sense of the Senate                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
     The Senate convened at the request of the Governor in special                                                              
     session to consider the subjects in the Governor's Proclamation                                                            
     of April 16, 2012. Included in the proclamation was the                                                                    
     subject "relating to oil and gas production taxes." The Senate                                                             
     Rules Committee, by request of the Governor, sponsored a bill                                                              
     which was introduced for the Senate's consideration as SB
. SB 3001 was referred to the Senate Resources                                                                         
     Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. The Senate                                                                     
     Resources Committee was in the process of holding hearings                                                                 
     on SB 3001 when the Governor announced by way of a                                                                         
     supplemental proclamation that he was withdrawing from his                                                                 
     call the subject "relating to oil and gas production taxes."                                                               
                                                                                                                                
     The Senate rejects the Governor's asserted authority to                                                                    
     withdraw the subject "relating to oil and gas production taxes,"                                                           
     and SB 3001 introduced by the Senate Rules Committee by his                                                                
     request concerning that subject. The Senate takes the position                                                             
     that, once the legislature convenes and introduces a bill on a                                                             
     subject within the Governor's special session proclamation, the                                                            
     Governor has no authority to withdraw that subject under                                                                   
     consideration by the legislature.