SCR 101: Authorizing a recess by the House of Representatives or Senate for a period of more than three days.
00 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 101 01 Authorizing a recess by the House of Representatives or Senate for a period of more 02 than three days. 03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 WHEREAS the legislature was called into the First Special Session of the Thirty- 05 Third Alaska State Legislature on May 17, 2023, by the Governor; and 06 WHEREAS, during the next few weeks, the finance committees of each house will be 07 conducting extensive hearings on the state budgets; and 08 WHEREAS, during the periods the finance committees of each house are conducting 09 hearings, the presence of the full membership of the Senate or House of Representatives is not 10 required, and daily floor sessions will take time away from careful consideration by the 11 committees of the subject in the Governor's May 17, 2023, proclamation; and 12 WHEREAS art. II, sec. 10, Constitution of the State of Alaska, provides that neither 13 house may adjourn or recess for longer than three days unless the other house concurs; and 14 WHEREAS Rule 52, Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, provides that 15 adoption of a concurrent resolution by a majority vote of the full membership of each house 16 constitutes concurrence;
01 BE IT RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the Senate or the House of 02 Representatives may be in recess for more than three days during the First Special Session of 03 the Thirty-Third Alaska State Legislature called by the Governor on May 17, 2023, and that 04 each house concurs in this recess; and be it 05 FURTHER RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the finance committees 06 of each house continue to meet on the subject in the Governor's May 17, 2023, proclamation 07 during a recess of both houses of the legislature until June 16, 2023.