2005-05-02                     House Journal                      Page 1440
Yeas:  Berkowitz, Cissna, Crawford, Croft, Dahlstrom, Elkins, Gara,                                 
Gardner, Gruenberg, Guttenberg, Joule, Kapsner, Kerttula, LeDoux,                                   
Moses, Salmon                                                                                       
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Anderson, Chenault, Coghill, Foster, Gatto, Harris, Hawker,                                  
Holm, Kelly, Kohring, Kott, Lynn, McGuire, Meyer, Neuman, Olson,                                    
Ramras, Rokeberg, Samuels, Seaton, Stoltze, Thomas, Weyhrauch,                                      
Wilson                                                                                              
                                                                                                    
And so, Amendment No. 1 was not adopted.                                                            
                                                                                                    
Amendment No. 2 was offered  by Representative Gara:                                                 
                                                                                                    
Page 1, following line 4:                                                                           
 Insert a new bill section to read:                                                                 
   "* Section 1.  AS 24.10.200 is amended by adding a new subsection                              
to read:                                                                                            
      (c)  Legislative staff pay shall be based on merit and shall not                              
     be based on the party or caucus membership of the employing                                    
     legislator."                                                                                   
                                                                                                    
Renumber the following bill sections accordingly.                                                   
                                                                                                    
Representative Gara moved and asked unanimous consent that                                          
Amendment No. 2 be adopted.                                                                         
                                                                                                    
Objection was heard.                                                                                
                                                                                                    
The question being:  "Shall Amendment No. 2 be adopted?"  The roll                                  
was taken with the following result:                                                                
                                                                                                    
CSHB 98(RLS)                                                                                        
Second Reading                                                                                      
Amendment No. 2                                                                                     
                                                                                                    
YEAS:  18   NAYS:  20   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  2                                                  
                                                                                                    
Yeas:  Anderson, Berkowitz, Cissna, Crawford, Croft, Dahlstrom,                                     
Gara, Gardner, Gruenberg, Guttenberg, Joule, Kapsner, Kerttula,                                     
Kohring, Kott, LeDoux, Moses, Salmon                                                                
                                                                                                    
Nays:  Chenault, Coghill, Elkins, Foster, Gatto, Harris, Hawker, Holm,                              
Kelly, Lynn, Meyer, Neuman, Olson, Ramras, Rokeberg, Seaton,                                        
Stoltze, Thomas, Weyhrauch, Wilson