2020-03-18                     Senate Journal                      Page 2092
Senator Bishop led the Senate in the Pledge of Allegiance.                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                                Certification                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Senator Hoffman moved and asked unanimous consent the journal for                                                               
the fifty-seventh legislative day be approved as certified by the                                                               
Secretary. Without objection, it was so ordered.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
                           Messages from the House                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Message dated March 17 was read stating the House passed and                                                                    
transmitted for consideration:                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
                        First Reading and Reference of                                                                       
                              House Resolutions                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
HCR 17                                                                                                                        
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 17 am BY THE                                                                                    
HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE,                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
          Suspending Rule 23(a), Uniform Rules of the Alaska                                                                    
          State Legislature, in response to the COVID-19                                                                        
          pandemic.                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the Rules Committee.                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
                  First Reading and Reference of House Bills                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
HB 113                                                                                                                        
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 113(L&C) BY THE HOUSE LABOR                                                                               
AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
          "An Act relating to private sector and state                                                                          
          employment preferences for active service members,                                                                    
          veterans, and spouses and dependent children of                                                                       
          active service members and veterans; relating to                                                                      
          employment preferences for surviving spouses of                                                                       
          deceased service members and veterans; and relating                                                                   
          to employment preferences for disabled veterans and                                                                   
          former prisoners of war."                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the State Affairs Committee.