1996-04-26                     Senate Journal                      Page 3605
SB 180                                                                       
The Finance Committee considered 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 and recommended it be replaced with                                
                                                                               
CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 180(FIN)                                               
	(forthcoming)                                                                 
                                                                               
Signing do pass: Senators Frank, Halford, Cochairs, Senator Sharp.             
Signing no recommendation: Senators Rieger, Phillips, Zharoff.                 
                                                                               
Fiscal note for the committee substitute published today from                  
Department of Natural Resources.  Previous zero fiscal notes apply.            
                                                                               
The bill was referred to the Rules Committee.