04/10/2009 01:30 PM Senate HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES
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ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
SENATE HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES STANDING COMMITTEE
April 10, 2009
1:25 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Senator Bettye Davis, Chair
Senator Joe Paskvan, Vice Chair
Senator Fred Dyson
MEMBERS ABSENT
Senator Johnny Ellis
Senator Joe Thomas
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10(HSS)
Urging the United States Congress to improve health care for
veterans.
MOVED CSHJR 10 OUT OF COMMITTEE
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION
BILL: HJR 10
SHORT TITLE: VETERANS' HEALTH CARE
SPONSOR(s): REPRESENTATIVE(s) GUTTENBERG
01/30/09 (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS
01/30/09 (H) MLV, STA, HSS
02/24/09 (H) MLV AT 1:00 PM BARNES 124
02/24/09 (H) Moved CSHJR 10(MLV) Out of Committee
02/24/09 (H) MINUTE(MLV)
02/25/09 (H) MLV RPT CS(MLV) 6DP
02/25/09 (H) DP: KAWASAKI, OLSON, HARRIS, LYNN,
BUCH, GATTO
03/02/09 (H) STA REFERRAL WAIVED
03/10/09 (H) HSS AT 3:00 PM CAPITOL 106
03/10/09 (H) Moved CSHJR 10(HSS) Out of Committee
03/10/09 (H) MINUTE(HSS)
03/12/09 (H) HSS RPT CS(HSS) 7DP
03/12/09 (H) DP: HOLMES, COGHILL, SEATON, LYNN,
CISSNA, HERRON, KELLER
03/25/09 (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S)
03/25/09 (H) VERSION: CSHJR 10(HSS)
03/27/09 (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS
03/27/09 (S) HSS, STA
04/07/09 (S) STA AT 9:00 AM BELTZ 211
04/07/09 (S) <Pending Referral>
04/10/09 (S) HSS AT 1:30 PM BUTROVICH 205
WITNESS REGISTER
REPRESENTATIVE GUTTENBERG
State Capital
Juneau, AK
POSITION STATEMENT: Introduced CSHJR 10.
ACTION NARRATIVE
1:25:57 PM
CHAIR BETTYE DAVIS called the Senate Health and Social Services
Standing Committee meeting to order at 1:25 p.m. Present at the
call to order were Senators Paskvan, Dyson and Davis.
HJR 10-VETERANS' HEALTH CARE
1:26:14 PM
CHAIR DAVIS announced consideration of CSHJR 10.
1:27:08 PM
CHAIR DAVIS called a brief at ease.
1:27:35 PM
CHAIR DAVIS called the meeting back to order.
1:27:45 PM
REPRESENTATIVE GUTTENBERG brought before the committee HJR 10,
which basically says the money follows the veteran instead of
making the veteran go to a veterans' health care facility. Many
communities around the state do have a vets' facility, but in
many others there is not and veterans have to fly to Anchorage
or Fairbanks or Seattle to get care. Many of those communities
that do not have a veterans' health care facility do have a
Native Health Service clinic or other kind of facility where
veterans could be treated if there were an agreement in place
between the Veterans' Administration (VA) and the clinics. So
this resolution urges Congress to do a better job of bringing
veterans' benefits to them.
1:29:02 PM
CHAIR DAVIS thanked Representative Guttenberg for his testimony
and asked if there were any questions from the committee or
anyone signed up to testify on the resolution. Hearing no
response, Chair Davis closed public testimony.
1:29:28 PM
SENATOR DYSON moved to report CSHJR 10 from committee with
individual recommendations and attached zero fiscal note(s).
There being no objection, the motion carried.
1:29:59 PM
There being no further business to come before the committee,
Senator Davis adjourned the meeting at 1:29 p.m.
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