02/19/2003 08:35 AM House FSH

HCR 6-EXTEND JT LEG SALMON INDUSTRY TASK FORCE                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Number 0036                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  SEATON announced  the  first order  of  business would  be                                                               
consideration of  HOUSE CONCURRENT  RESOLUTION NO.  6, "Extending                                                               
the  termination date  of the  Joint Legislative  Salmon Industry                                                               
Task Force until 2005."                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Number 0074                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  WILSON  moved  to adopt  the  proposed  committee                                                               
substitute  (CS)  for  HCR  6,  Version  23-LS0516\H,  Utermohle,                                                               
2/12/03, as  a work draft.   There being no objection,  Version H                                                               
was before the committee.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Number 0163                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CHERYL  SUTTON, Staff  to the  Joint Legislative  Salmon Industry                                                               
Task  Force,   Alaska  State  Legislature,  explained   that  the                                                               
proposed CS  for HCR 6  contains essentially three changes.   She                                                               
said the first change is to  provide for an extension of one year                                                               
instead  of two  years, a  change that  would extend  through the                                                               
adjournment of  the [second] regular session  of the Twenty-Third                                                               
Alaska State Legislature.  Ms.  Sutton said that in addition, the                                                               
proposed   committee  substitute   adds   funding  language   for                                                               
appropriations through  the Legislative Council,  which clarifies                                                               
the   funding  stream.      She  said   this   addition  is   for                                                               
clarification,  as the  task force  has  worked this  way in  the                                                               
past.  She said there is  a zero fiscal note, so additional money                                                               
will not be needed to continue the work.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Number 0269                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  BERKOWITZ noted  that  some  legislators who  had                                                               
been  on the  task force  would no  longer be  available to  fill                                                               
those positions,  and he asked  if there had been  any indication                                                               
of who might be interested in taking their places.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
MS. SUTTON  said that discussion had  not taken place as  of yet,                                                               
but stated that if the  task force were extended, the legislative                                                               
members of the task force would have that discussion.                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Number 0337                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  BERKOWITZ moved  to report  CSHCR 6,  Version 23-                                                               
LS0516\H, Utermohle,  2/12/03, out  of committee  with individual                                                               
recommendations  and the  accompanying zero  fiscal note.   There                                                               
being  no objection,  CSHCR 6(FSH)  was reported  from the  House                                                               
Special Committee on Fisheries.