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HJR 9                                                                                             
A message dated May 6, 2006, was read stating the Senate has passed:                                
                                                                                                    
     HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 9 am                                                                
     Urging the United States Congress to honor the process and                                     
     judgment of the federal courts in the case of the Exxon Valdez                                 
     disaster and to refrain from enacting legislation that would affect                            
     the outcome of the courts' resolution of the case.                                             
                                                                                                    
with the following amendment and it is transmitted for consideration:                               
                                                                                                    
     SENATE CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 9(JUD)                                                
     am S                                                                                           
     Urging the United States Congress to honor the process and                                     
     judgment of the federal courts in the case of the Exxon Valdez                                 
     disaster and to refrain from enacting legislation that would affect                            
     the outcome of the courts' resolution of the case; urging the United                           
     States Department of Justice and the Alaska Department of Law to                               
     identify all natural resource damages from the Exxon Valdez oil                                
     spill that were unanticipated at the time of the 1991 settlement, to                           

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     develop plans to remedy the damages, and to present the                                        
     ExxonMobil Corporation with a request for the full $100,000,000                                
     that is available through the "Reopener for Unknown Injury"                                    
     clause of the 1991 civil settlement to carry out these plans.                                  
                                                                                                    
 (SCR 32 - title change resolution)                                                                 
                                                                                                    
HJR 9 am is under Unfinished Business.