1994-09-26                     House Journal                      Page 4545
(3) regarding the funding source for certain appropriations relating          
to the mental health trust fund and the mental health trust income             
account, including technical corrections necessary to implement the            
settlement of the mental health trust litigation, Weiss v. State,              
4FA-82-2208 Civil.                                                             
                                                                               
                                                                               
Dated at Anchorage, Alaska this 9th day of September, 1994.                    
                                                                               
						/s/                                                                      
						Walter J. Hickel                                                         
						Governor                                                                 
                                                                               
                                                                               
                 INTRODUCTION, FIRST READING AND REFERENCE                  
                                OF HOUSE BILLS                                
                                                                               
HB 549                                                                       
HOUSE BILL NO. 549 by the House Rules Committee by request of                  
the Governor, entitled:                                                        
                                                                               
"An Act relating to the mental health land trust, the mental health           
trust income account, and the mental health land trust litigation,             
Weiss v. State, 4FA-82-2208 Civil, and amending ch. 66, SLA                    
1991, and ch. 5, FSSLA 1994 relating to the trust, the account,                
and the litigation; and providing for an effective date."                      
                                                                               
was read the first time and referred to the Finance Committee.                 
                                                                               
The following fiscal note applies:                                             
                                                                               
Zero fiscal note, Office of the Governor, 9/26/94                              
                                                                               
The Governor's transmittal letter, dated September 26, 1994, appears           
below:                                                                         
                                                                               
"Dear Speaker Barnes:                                                          
                                                                               
Under the authority of art. III, sec. 18, of the Alaska Constitution, I am     
transmitting a substantive bill and an appropriation bill that relate to       
the mental health trust, the mental health trust income account, and the