HOUSE BILL NO. 358 "An Act relating to an advertising campaign in support of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for development." 2:07:44 PM Co-Chair Stoltze discussed the issues of concern that had been expressed during HB 358's prior hearing; the two issues were that the CS needed an addition to prevent the legislation from influencing political action and that there needed to be a cap placed on the maximum dollar amount of the advertising campaign. Vice-Chair Fairclough MOVED to ADOPT the proposed committee substitute for HB 358, Work Draft 27-LS1406\I (Bailey, 3/19/12) as a working document. Co-Chair Stoltze OBJECTED for the purpose of discussion. REPRESENTATIVE LANCE PRUITT, SPONSOR, asked his staff to discuss the change in the new CS. DIRK CRAFT, STAFF, REPRESENTATIVE LANCE PRUITT, explained that the only addition to the CS was Section 1, subsection (e)(4), which was on Page 2, line 26 of the legislation. Subsection (e)(4) was added at Representative Gara's request in order to insure that the legislation would not be used for any lobbying purposes on any elected official or any kind of campaign. Co-Chair Stoltze requested the exact wording of the new language. Mr. Craft read from the bill starting on the beginning of subsection E on line 16. "A qualified trade association may not use money from a contract awarded under (a) of this section" Mr. Craft continued reading from the bill on subsection (e)(4). "in an advertising campaign that refers to a particular elected official or candidate for public office or specifically promotes or criticizes a political party." Co-Chair Stoltze commented that the other issue of concern, which was the maximum cap of the advertising campaign, had been addressed in the fiscal note. Mr. Craft remarked that the sponsor had attempted to put the cap in the legislation itself, but that they were advised against putting it directly in statute because it would take away from the appropriating powers of the Alaska Legislature. Co-Chair Stoltze interjected that it would certainly take away flexibility from the legislature and that fiscal notes were a more flexible document than statutes. Vice-Chair Fairclough discussed the fiscal from the House Finance Committee for DCCED; the note set the aforementioned cap at $1.5 million in general funds. She spoke to several indeterminate fiscal notes. Co-Chair Stoltze indicated that the committee would only adopt the House Finance Committee fiscal note and identified it as OMB component number 1844. Co-Chair Stoltze WITHDREW his OBJECTION. There being NO further OBJECTION, Work Draft 27-LS1406\I was ADOPTED. 2:12:14 PM Vice-Chair Fairclough MOVED to report CSHB 358(FIN) out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal note. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. Representative Gara inquired if the program would run for two years. Co-Chair Stoltze responded in the affirmative and that it would run until 2015. 2:13:12 PM CSHB 358(FIN) was REPORTED out of committee with a "do pass" recommendation and with a new fiscal impact note by the House Finance Committee for the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development. Representative Joule referenced comments that were made in a prior meeting, in which Vice-Chair Fairclough discussed a trip that Alaska Legislators had taken to Washington, D.C. He discussed the need to for Alaska to do work around the country to get a groundswell of support regarding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and opined that being reactive to particular bill "has not been getting the job done." He offered that having a more full-time effort was the beginning of Alaska's future regarding ANWR, as well as other issues facing the state. He shared that unfortunately, Congress and others outside of Alaska operated with very little accurate information and that how the state marketed itself those individuals and entities was important. 2:15:04 PM AT EASE 2:18:46 PM RECONVENED