03/22/2011 09:00 AM Senate STATE AFFAIRS

           SB  94-SECOND VERSE OF ALASKA'S STATE SONG                                                                       
                                                                                                                              
9:05:07 AM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR WIELECHOWSKI announced the next  order of business would be                                                               
SB 94.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  DAVIS,  sponsor of  SB  94,  thanked the  committee  for                                                               
hearing the  bill in  a timely  manner. She  said last  year this                                                               
bill  passed the  senate  and  it has  passed  the house  several                                                               
times, but  never both houses at  the same time. She  does have a                                                               
concern about the indeterminate fiscal note.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  WIELECHOWSKI  noted  that  all  members  should  have  the                                                               
statement of intent in their packets.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
MICHELLE SYDEMAN,  staff to Senator Bill  Wielechowski, said that                                                               
last year  this bill passed  through four committees with  a zero                                                               
fiscal note.  This year  there was  an indeterminate  fiscal note                                                               
issued by  the Office  of the  Governor at  the last  moment. The                                                               
Office  of Management  and Budget  raised the  issues that  state                                                               
publications might need  to be reprinted, and  the possibility of                                                               
copyright fees. She said that  Senator Davis' office has a letter                                                               
stating there would be no  copyright fee, and Chair Wilechowski's                                                               
office has prepared a letter of intent.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR WIELECHOWSKI read the letter of intent, as follows:                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
          SB 94: Second Verse of the Alaska State Song                                                                          
                       Legislative Intent                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
          It  is   the  intent  of  the   Alaska  State                                                                         
          Legislature  that  no   additional  funds  be                                                                         
          spent to  re-print state  publications simply                                                                         
          to  include the  second verse  of the  Alaska                                                                         
          State    Song.   Instead,    re-printing   of                                                                         
          publications should occur  on the schedule it                                                                         
          would otherwise have  occurred had the second                                                                         
          verse not been adopted.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR PASKVAN  moved to adopt  the legislative  intent language                                                               
for SB 94. Without objection, the intent language was adopted.                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  PASKVAN  moved  to  report SB  94  from  committee  with                                                               
individual  recommendations  and   attached  fiscal  note(s)  and                                                               
intent language. There being no objection, it was so ordered.