HR 8-2019: INT'L YEAR OF THE SALMON                                                                        
                                                                                                                              
2:29:54 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR LINCOLN  announced that the  final order of business  would be                                                         
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.  8, Recognizing 2019 as the  International Year of                                                         
the Salmon and  supporting an associated global  initiative identifying                                                         
the importance of wild salmon.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
2:30:16 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR  TARR  moved  to adopt  Amendment  1,  labeled  31-LS0667\U.3,                                                         
Bullard, 4/25/19 which read:                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
     Page 2, following line 24:                                                                                                 
           Insert new material to read:                                                                                         
           "WHEREAS resource  managers have identified  watersheds                                                              
     across  the state in which the  salmon stocks are "stocks  of                                                              
     concern,"  and these  managers recognize  the  need for  more                                                              
     research  to  better  understand the  measures  necessary  to                                                              
     improve the health of the salmon runs; and"                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
     Page 3, line 27, following "Alaska;":                                                                                      
            Insert "the Honorable Jay Inslee, Governor of                                                                       
     Washington; the Honorable Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon;"                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
2:30:36 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE RASMUSSEN objected for discussion purposes.                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR TARR explained Amendment 1  adds a WHEREAS clause to integrate                                                         
"stocks of  concern" into  HR 8.   In  addition, the  amendment directs                                                         
that  copies of  the  resolution  would be  sent  to  the governors  of                                                         
Washington and Oregon.                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE RASMUSSEN removed her objection.                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE RAUSCHER  objected for  discussion purposes,  noting his                                                         
understanding  that in  the  amendment  stocks of  concern  were to  be                                                         
identified as a priority.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR TARR  said the first  version of  the amendment may  have been                                                         
interpreted as a policy statement, and so the amendment was changed.                                                            
                                                                                                                                
2:34:01 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  RAUSCHER removed  his  objection,  and without  further                                                         
objection, Amendment 1 was adopted.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
2:34:17 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  RAUSCHER  moved  to  adopt  Amendment  2,  labeled  31-                                                         
LS0667\U.2, Bullard, 4/25/19, which read:                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
     Page 3, line 25, following "States":                                                                                       
           Insert "and the international community"                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR TARR objected for discussion purposes.                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  RAUSCHER   said  Amendment   2  seeks  to   denote  the                                                         
international significance of Alaska's fishery.                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR TARR removed her objection, and without further objection,                                                             
Amendment 2 was adopted.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
2:35:33 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR TARR moved  to report HR 8, as amended,  out of committee with                                                         
individual recommendations  and the  accompanying fiscal notes.   There                                                         
being no objection,  CSHR 8(RES) was reported from  the House Resources                                                         
Standing Committee.