2019-04-15                     Senate Journal                      Page 0833
The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 2 be adopted?" The roll                                                                
was taken with the following result:                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
SJR 8                                                                                                                           
Second Reading                                                                                                                  
Amendment No. 2?                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  5   NAYS:  14   EXCUSED:  1   ABSENT:  0                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Begich, Gray-Jackson, Kawasaki, Kiehl, Olson                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Nays:  Birch, Bishop, Coghill, Costello, Giessel, Hoffman, Hughes,                                                              
Micciche, Reinbold, Shower, Stedman, Stevens, von Imhof, Wilson                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Excused:  Wielechowski                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
and so, Amendment No. 2 failed.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Amendment No. 3 was not offered.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Senator Kawasaki offered Amendment No. 4 :                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Page 1, line 1, following "trade;":                                                                                           
     Insert "urging the United States Congress to remove the United                                                           
States exemption from the discrimination provisions of the United                                                             
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement;"                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Page 3, line 8, following "marketplace;":                                                                                       
     Insert "and                                                                                                                
     WHEREAS ch. 23, art. 9, n. 13 of the United States-Mexico-                                                               
Canada Agreement needlessly exempts the United States from the                                                                  
coverage of the provision that requires the parties to the agreement to                                                         
implement policies they consider appropriate to protect workers                                                                 
against employment discrimination on the basis of sex, pregnancy,                                                               
sexual orientation, gender identity, and caregiving responsibilities, to                                                        
provide job-protected leave for birth or adoption of a child and care of                                                        
family members, and to protect against wage discrimination;"                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Page 3, line 11, following "agreement":                                                                                         
     Insert "with the removal of the United States exemption from the                                                           
discrimination provisions"