1999-03-23                     Senate Journal                      Page 0645
SJR 17                                                                       
The Resources Committee considered SENATE JOINT                                
RESOLUTION NO. 17 Requesting that the National Marine Fisheries                
Service and the United States Congress act immediately to reverse              
the decline of the Cook Inlet beluga whale population and to                   
regulate the harvest of the beluga whales in Cook Inlet until the              
beluga whale population has recovered, and recommended it be                   
replaced with                                                                  
                                                                               
CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO.                                            
17(RES)                                                                        
                                                                               
Signing do pass: Senator Halford, Chair, Senators Mackie, Parnell,             
Pete Kelly, Taylor, Green.                                                     
                                                                               
Zero fiscal note published today from the Senate Resources                     
Committee.                                                                     
                                                                               
The resolution was referred to the Rules Committee.