1996-02-23                     Senate Journal                      Page 2519
SB 180                                                                       
President Pearce added a Finance Committee referral to SENATE                  
BILL NO. 180 An Act authorizing the commissioner of the                        
Department of Natural Resources to negotiate and enter into timber             
sale contracts that provide for local manufacture of high value-added          
wood products; and establishing an Alaska Forest Products Research             
and Marketing Program within the Department of Commerce and                    
Economic Development.                                                          
                                                                               
The bill was referred to the Resources and Finance Committees.