Enrolled HCR101: Authorizing a recess by the House of Representatives or Senate for a period of more than three days.
00Enrolled HCR101 01 Authorizing a recess by the House of Representatives or Senate for a period of more than 02 three days. 03 _______________ 04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05 WHEREAS the legislature was called into the First Special Session of the Twenty- 06 Ninth Alaska State Legislature on April 27, 2015, by the Governor; and 07 WHEREAS, during the next few weeks, the finance committees of each house will be 08 conducting extensive hearings on the state operating and capital budgets and other subjects 09 included in the Governor's proclamation; and 10 WHEREAS, during the periods the finance committees of each house are conducting 11 hearings, the presence of the full membership of the Senate or House of Representatives is not 12 required, and daily floor sessions will take time away from careful consideration by the 13 committees of the subjects included in the Governor's April 27, 2015, proclamation; and 14 WHEREAS art. II, sec. 10, Constitution of the State of Alaska, provides that neither 15 house may adjourn or recess for longer than three days unless the other house concurs; and 16 WHEREAS Rule 52, Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, provides that 17 adoption of a concurrent resolution by a majority vote of the full membership of each house
01 constitutes concurrence; 02 BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the Senate or the House of 03 Representatives may be in recess for more than three days during the First Special Session of 04 the Twenty-Ninth Alaska State Legislature called by the Governor on April 27, 2015, and that 05 each house concurs in this recess; and be it 06 FURTHER RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the finance committees 07 of each house continue to meet on the subjects in the Governor's April 27, 2015, proclamation 08 during a recess of both houses of the legislature until May 12, 2015.