2005-05-09                     Senate Journal                      Page 1493
                          Messages from the Governor                                             
                                                                                                    
                            Executive Proclamation                                                 
                                                                                                    
Under the authority of art. II, sec. 9, and art. III, sec. 17, of the Alaska                        
Constitution, and in the public interest, I call the Twenty-Fourth                                  
Legislature of the State of Alaska into its first special session at                                
Juneau, Alaska in the legislative chambers on May 11, 2005, at 10:00                                
a.m. to consider the passage of bills on subjects germane to the titles                             
of the following bills while those bills were under consideration by the                            
Senate and House of Representatives during the first regular session:                               
                                                                                                    
     1. Senate Bill 46 - capital appropriations and appropriations to                               
          capitalize funds;                                                                         
     2. Senate Bill 130 - workers' compensation;                                                    
     3. Senate Bill 141 - teachers' and public employees' retirement                                
          systems;                                                                                  
     4. House Bill 1 - base student allocation used in the formula for                              
          state funding of public education;                                                        
     5. House Bill 66 - appropriations for operating and capital                                    
          expenses of the state's integrated comprehensive mental                                   
          health program;                                                                           
     6. House Bill 67 - appropriations for the operating and loan                                   
          program expenses of state government; and                                                 
     7. Senate Bill 97 - supplemental, capital, and other                                           
          appropriations, and reappropriations.                                                     
                                                                                                    
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Dated this 9 day of May, 2005.                                                                      
/s/                                                                                                 
Frank H. Murkowski, Governor                                                                        
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                           Messages from the House                                               
                                                                                                    
SB 141                                                                                            
Message dated May 8 was read, stating the Speaker granted limited                                   
powers of free conference to the House conferees considering HOUSE                                  
CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 141(FIN) am H "An Act                                                 
relating to the teachers' and public employees' retirement systems and                              
creating defined contribution and health reimbursement plans for