SENATE RULES COMMITTEE                                                                                          
                    March 24, 1999                                                                                              
                      12:46 p.m.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS PRESENT                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Senator Tim Kelly, Chair                                                                                                        
Senator Loren Leman, Vice Chair                                                                                                 
Senator Mike Miller                                                                                                             
Senator Drue Pearce                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS ABSENT                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Senator Johnny Ellis                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE CALENDAR                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 17                                                                                                  
Requesting that the National Marine Fisheries Service and the                                                                   
United States Congress act immediately to reverse the decline of                                                                
the Cook Inlet beluga whale population and to regulate the harvest                                                              
of the beluga whales in Cook Inlet until the beluga whale                                                                       
population has recovered.                                                                                                       
     -MOVED all versions of SJR 17 OUT OF COMMITTEE                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
PREVIOUS SENATE COMMITTEE ACTION                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
SJR 17 - See Resource Committee minutes dated 3/22/99.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
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CHAIRMAN KELLY called the Senate Rules Committee meeting to order                                                               
at 12:46 p.m.  Present were Senators Leman, Miller, Pearce, and                                                                 
Kelly.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR LEMAN moved to calendar all versions of SJR 17-COOK INLET                                                               
BELUGA POPULATION.  There being no objection, the motion carried.                                                               
                                                                                                                                
There being no further business to come before the committee,                                                                   
CHAIRMAN KELLY adjourned the meeting at 12:48 p.m.