HB 47: "An Act renaming the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council as the Council for Alaska Native Languages; and relating to the Council for Alaska Native Languages."
00 HOUSE BILL NO. 47 01 "An Act renaming the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council as 02 the Council for Alaska Native Languages; and relating to the Council for Alaska Native 03 Languages." 04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05 * Section 1. AS 44.33.520(a) is amended to read: 06 (a) The Council for Alaska Native Languages [ALASKA NATIVE 07 LANGUAGE PRESERVATION AND ADVISORY COUNCIL] is established in the 08 department for the purpose of recommending the establishment or reorganization of 09 programs to support the preservation, restoration, and revitalization of Alaska Native 10 languages. 11 * Sec. 2. AS 44.33.520(c) is amended to read: 12 (c) The governor shall appoint to the council established in this section seven 13 [FIVE] voting members who are professional language experts and who represent 14 diverse regions of the state. In addition, one member of the senate appointed by the
01 president of the senate and one member of the house of representatives appointed by 02 the speaker of the house of representatives shall serve on the council as nonvoting 03 members. In appointing the nonvoting members of the council, the president of the 04 senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint a member of the 05 bush caucus, if a bush caucus exists. In this subsection, "bush caucus" means a group 06 of legislators that represents rural areas of the state. 07 * Sec. 3. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to 08 read: 09 TRANSITION. As soon as practicable after the effective date of sec. 2 of this Act, the 10 governor shall appoint to the Council for Alaska Native Languages the two additional voting 11 members created by sec. 2 of this Act.