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HB 71                                                                                                                         
Message dated April 13 was read stating the House failed to concur in                                                           
the Senate amendment to CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 71(FIN) "An                                                                       
Act requiring the Department of Commerce, Community, and                                                                        
Economic Development to file an annual report to the legislature                                                                
regarding statewide and regional economic development projects and                                                              
regional development organizations; extending the termination date of                                                           
the Alaska regional economic assistance program; and providing for                                                              
an effective date" and respectfully requests the Senate to recede from                                                          
its amendment, namely:                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
     SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 71(FIN)                                                                                
     "An Act requiring the Commercial Fisheries Entry                                                                           
     Commission to report biennially on the vessel-based                                                                        
     limited entry fisheries system for the weathervane scallop                                                                 

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     and Bering Sea hair crab fisheries; requiring the                                                                          
     Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic                                                                            
     Development to file an annual report to the legislature                                                                    
     regarding statewide and regional economic development                                                                      
     projects and regional development organizations; extending                                                                 
     the termination date of the Alaska regional economic                                                                       
     assistance program; extending the termination date of the                                                                  
     authority of the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission                                                                     
     to maintain a vessel-based limited entry fisheries system for                                                              
     the weathervane scallop and Bering Sea hair crab fisheries;                                                                
     providing for an effective date by amending the effective                                                                  
     date under sec. 28, ch. 137, SLA 2002; and providing for                                                                   
     an effective date." (Title Change SCR 9)                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
In the event the Senate fails to recede, the Speaker has appointed the                                                          
following members to a Conference Committee to meet with a like                                                                 
committee from the Senate to consider the bills:                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
     Representative Hughes, Chair                                                                                               
     Representative Johnson                                                                                                     
     Representative Tarr                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Senator Coghill moved that the Senate recede from its amendment and                                                             
recommended the body vote no.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
The question being: "Shall the Senate recede from its amendment?"                                                               
The roll was taken with the following result:                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SCS CSHB 71(FIN)                                                                                                                
Shall the Senate Recede from its Amendment                                                                                      
to CSHB 71(FIN)?                                                                                                                
Effective Date                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  1   NAYS:  19   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Gardner                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Nays:  Bishop, Coghill, Dunleavy, Dyson, Egan, Ellis, Fairclough,                                                               
French, Giessel, Hoffman, Huggins, Kelly, McGuire, Meyer,                                                                       
Micciche, Olson, Stedman, Stevens, Wielechowski                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
and so, the Senate failed to recede.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                

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The President appointed the following members to a Conference                                                                   
Committee to meet with the like committee from the House:                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
     Senator Stedman, Chair                                                                                                     
     Senator Egan                                                                                                               
     Senator French                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
The Secretary was requested to notify the House.