1999-07-28                     Senate Journal                      Page 1798
HB 40                                                                        
certain discretionary duties formerly performed by                            
the Department of Community and Regional Affairs                               
are mandatory in the department to which those                                 
duties are transferred; relating to the licensing of                           
child care facilities; relating to the division of                             
vocational rehabilitation; relating to the Alaska                              
Human Resource Investment Council; adjusting the                               
membership of certain multi-member bodies;                                     
providing that a certain commissioner may designate                            
department employees to serve in the                                           
commissioners place on a board, council, or similar                            
entity; providing for advice to be given by a                                  
department head to the governor and other                                      
commissioners on the delivery of government                                    
services to rural areas and providing for                                      
recommendations to be made to the governor and                                 
other commissioners by that same commissioner                                  
about policy changes that would affect rural                                   
governments and rural affairs; relating to the federal                         
community development quota program; eliminating                               
references to the division of tourism; eliminating a                           
reference to manpower training programs;                                       
eliminating references to the director and deputy                              
director of international trade; eliminating the                               
requirement for a local advisory committee for                                 
consideration of rural electrification loans; and                              
providing for an effective date.                                               
                                                                              
		Chapter 58, SLA 1999                                                         
		Effective Date: See Chapter                                                  
                                                                               
SB 171                                                                       
Message dated June 10 and received June 11, stating the Governor               
signed the following bill and transmitted the engrossed and enrolled           
copies to the Lieutenant Governors Office for permanent filing: