Legislature(2017 - 2018)BUTROVICH 205
02/21/2017 04:30 PM Senate STATE AFFAIRS
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Adjourn |
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+ | SR 3 | TELECONFERENCED | |
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SR 3-FEBRUARY 2017: BLACK HISTORY MONTH 4:31:47 PM CHAIR DUNLEAVY announced the consideration of SR 3. 4:31:59 PM SENATOR TOM BEGICH, Alaska State Legislature, Juneau, Alaska, resolution sponsor, explained that Senate Resolution 3 (SR 3) simply proclaims February 2017 as Black History Month. He referenced his sponsor statement as follows: In 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson established a Negro History Week to coincide with the birth week shared by President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass. In 1976, Senator Gerald R. Ford expanded February to Black History Month in honor of the nation's bicentennial. African Americans have made a tremendous contribution to building this State and ensuring it thrives. In order to honor that contribution and ensure that the history of African Americans is remembered and celebrated in this country. While the State of Alaska has never previously passed a Resolution honoring Black History Month, this allows the Legislature to highlight the particular impact African Americans have had both on our history and will have on our future. I respectfully request your support of Senate Resolution 3. He set forth that the resolution is straight forward. He noted that there are a series of "whereas" clauses that describe the history of Black History Month. He said "whereas" clauses were added to speak specifically to some of the African American contributions in Alaska, starting with the Buffalo Soldiers in Dyea and Skagway during the Gold Rush, the engineers who helped build the Alaska Canada Highway (ALCAN), and then also talking generally about those African Americans who contributed in all walks of life to Alaska. He disclosed that in the Senate Education Committee that a number of people who testified publically about some of the awards the last few weeks that were provided in Anchorage and other areas around the state honoring African Americans in Alaska. 4:34:10 PM CHAIR DUNLEAVY opened public testimony on SR 3. 4:34:35 PM WILLIAM DEATON, representing self and family, Cordova, Alaska, testified in opposition of SR 3. He said SR 3 is discriminatory in supporting only one race. 4:35:59 PM CHAIR DUNLEAVY closed public testimony on SR 3. 4:36:07 PM SENATOR GIESSEL moved to report SR 3, version 30-LS0418\D from committee with individual recommendations and attached fiscal note(s). 4:36:18 PM CHAIR DUNLEAVY announced that hearing no objection, SR 3 moved from the Senate State Affairs Standing Committee.
Document Name | Date/Time | Subjects |
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SB 21 & SB 26 - Public Testimony to SSTA (Opposition) 02.20.2017.pdf |
SSTA 2/21/2017 4:30:00 PM |
SB 21 SB 26 |
SB 21 & SB 26 - Public Testimony to SSTA (Support) 02.20.2017.pdf |
SSTA 2/21/2017 4:30:00 PM |
SB 21 SB 26 |
SB 21 & SB 26 - SSTA Public Testimony 02.21.2017.pdf |
SSTA 2/21/2017 4:30:00 PM |
SB 21 SB 26 |