03/29/1993 01:55 PM Senate JUD

  SENATOR  TAYLOR   returned  SB  67   (MENTAL  HEALTH   TRUST                 
  AMENDMENTS)  to  committee  and  announced  it would  be  on                 
  teleconference to Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Petersburg.                      
                                                                               
  SENATOR TAYLOR first called on  RICK JOHANNSEN, attorney for                 
  the Mental Health Coalition supporting SB 67, to testify.                    
                                                                               
  MR.  JOHANNSEN  reviewed  his  previous  testimony  from the                 
  Judiciary  Committee meeting  of 3/24/1993.   He  explained,                 
  since  then,  he  had  met  with  representatives  from  the                 
  Departments of Law and Natural Resources, and he thanked the                 
  departments for their constructive comments and suggestions.                 
  In reference to the proposed committee substitute brought to                 
  committee, he said it was the product of those discussions.                  
                                                                               
  MR. JOHANNSEN referred to  the proposed committee substitute                 
  as a combination  of the original bill,  previous amendments                 
  considered  by   the  committee,  and   further  refinements                 
  developed with the Department of Law and DNR.                                
                                                                               
  MR. JOHANNSEN presented the committee substitute for further                 
  action by the committee, and  he explained there were  three                 
  significant changes:                                                         
                                                                               
       1.  In  Section 2,  a  change  to the  land  management                 
       position.                                                               
                                                                               
       2. A clarification to the manner  in which the title is                 
       conveyed to the reconstituted trust.                                    
                                                                               
       3. A  mechanism for  finding DNR's  mental health  land                 
       management duties from  the mental health trust  income                 
       account.                                                                
                                                                               
  MR. JOHANNSEN described  the other  changes as technical  in                 
  nature and clarified the intent  of the amendments discussed                 
  in the meeting  of 4/24/93.   He said they also  represented                 
                                                                               
                                                                               
  existing settlement  concepts fleshed  out in the  committee                 
  discussion.                                                                  
                                                                               
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  MR. JOHANNSEN  concluded with  addition  information on  the                 
  three changes as listed at the beginning of his testimony.                   
                                                                               
  SENATOR JACKO moved to adopt CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 67(JUD)                  
  incorporating  the  new  changes.   Without  objections,  so                 
  ordered.                                                                     
                                                                               
  SENATOR LITTLE thanked the efforts of MR. JOHANNSEN and  the                 
  departments for their work on the legislation.                               
                                                                               
  SENATOR JACKO moved to pass CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 67(JUD)                   
  (MENTAL  HEALTH   TRUST  AMENDMENTS)  from   committee  with                 
  individual recommendations.                                                  
                                                                               
  Before passing  the  bill  from  committee,  SENATOR  TAYLOR                 
  thanked  participants  in  the settlement.    He  moved CSSB
(JUD) from committee without objections, so ordered.