SB 101-REVISOR'S BILL                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Chair Ralph Seekins announced SB 101 to be up for consideration.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
8:40:01 AM                                                                                                                    
Senator Gene Therriault joined the committee.                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
MR.  JAMES CRAWFORD,  assistant  reviser,  Legislative Legal  and                                                               
Research Services  Division, Legislative Affairs  Agency, advised                                                               
the Revisers  Bill is generated  annually under the  authority of                                                               
AS 01.05.036. It commands the  revisor to make corrections to the                                                               
Alaska  Statutes.   The  corrections  fall  into   three  general                                                               
categories. They improve  the form or substance  of the statutes,                                                               
they update obsolete provisions, and they correct oversights.                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
8:43:00 AM                                                                                                                    
Mr. Crawford  directed the committee's  attention to  Section 94,                                                               
which  is  the  Repealer.  Two sections  being  repealed  are  AS                                                               
44.66.020  and 44.66.030  relating  to  program budgeting.  These                                                               
sections stopped being  used in the late 1970s.  However there is                                                               
one  sentence  in  one  of   the  sections  that  has  continuing                                                               
potential applicability. In  order to preserve the  piece of that                                                               
section the revisors have to pull that part out of the section.                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
8:46:11 AM                                                                                                                    
MR.  CRAWFORD offered  an amendment  for  the committee's  review                                                               
that solves the problem.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
8:46:47 AM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR THERRIAULT moved Amendment 1.                                                                                           
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                                                          Crawford                                                              
                                                          03/08/05                                                              
                                                                                                                                
                      A M E N D M E N T 1                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
OFFERED IN THE SENATE                     BY SENATOR THERRIAULT                                                                 
     TO:  CSSB 101(STA)                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Page 21, lines 1 - 31:                                                                                                          
     Delete all material.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Renumber the following bill sections accordingly.                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Page 29, line 1, through page 31, line 30:                                                                                      
     Delete all material.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Renumber the following bill sections accordingly.                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Page 46, line 19:                                                                                                               
     Delete "AS 44.66.020, 44.66.030;"                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR SEEKINS objected for explanation.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR THERRIAULT stated Mr. Crawford  indicated the auditor has                                                               
cleaned up the  statutes. The Revisor's Bill  should only contain                                                               
the items that everyone has agreed is pure cleanup.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  SEEKINS withdrew  his objection.  There  being no  further                                                               
objections, Amendment 1 was adopted.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  THERRIAULT  moved  CSSB  101(JUD)  from  committee  with                                                               
individual  recommendations and  attached  fiscal note(s).  There                                                               
being no objection, the motion carried.