1998-04-08                     Senate Journal                      Page 3195
HB 380                                                                       
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 380(FIN)(title am) BY THE HOUSE                          
FINANCE COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                   
                                                                               
An Act relating to a temporary reduction of royalty                           
on oil and gas produced for sale from certain fields                           
described as being located within the Cook Inlet                               
sedimentary basin, as having been discovered before                            
January 1, 1988, and as having been undeveloped or                             
shut in from at least January 1, 1988, through                                 
December 31, 1997.                                                             
                                                                               
was read the first time and referred to the Resources and Finance              
Committees.                                                                    
                                                                               
HB 459                                                                       
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 459(FIN) am BY THE HOUSE                                 
FINANCE COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                   
                                                                               
An Act establishing new eligibility for medical                               
assistance for certain disabled persons and giving                             
their eligibility for services the highest priority                            
among optional services and groups under the                                   
medical assistance program; amending the definition                            
of personal care services in a recipients home as                              
used in the medical assistance program; moving                                 
midwife services from being the first to being the                             
14th service eliminated under the medical assistance                           
program when there is insufficient funding; and                                
adjusting the priority of optional services and                                
optional eligible groups under the medical assistance                          
program in order to reflect the new priorities given                           
to the newly-eligible disabled persons and to                                  
midwife services but without otherwise changing the                            
relative order of the other optional services and                              
optional groups.                                                               
                                                                               
was read the first time and referred to the Health, Education and              
Social Services and Finance Committees.