2005-01-21                     Senate Journal                      Page 0107
Governor's transmittal letter dated January 20:                                                     
                                                                                                    
Dear President Stevens:                                                                             
                                                                                                    
Under the authority of art. III, sec. 18, of the Alaska Constitution, I am                          
transmitting a bill relating to the compensation of certain public                                  
officials, officers, and employees not covered by collective bargaining                             
agreements.                                                                                         
                                                                                                    
This bill would revise the salary schedule for certain state officials,                             
officers, and employees who are not covered by collective bargaining                                
agreements to bring those salaries into line with employees in the                                  
supervisory bargaining unit.                                                                        
                                                                                                    
Additionally, this bill would provide for a two percent increase in                                 
fiscal years 2006 and 2007, to parallel the offer the state extended to                             
bargaining units with similarly situated employees. This proposal                                   
would cover employees in the executive, legislative, and judicial                                   
branches of state government who are not covered by a collective                                    
bargaining agreement.                                                                               
                                                                                                    
I urge your prompt and favorable action on this measure.                                            
                                                                                                    
Sincerely yours,                                                                                    
/s/                                                                                                 
Frank H. Murkowski                                                                                  
Governor                                                                                            
                                                                                                    
SB 72                                                                                             
SENATE BILL NO. 72 BY THE SENATE RULES COMMITTEE                                                    
BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR, entitled:                                                               
                                                                                                    
          "An Act relating to the authority to take oaths,                                          
          affirmations, and acknowledgments in the state, to                                        
          notarizations, to verifications, to acknowledgments,                                      
          to fees for issuing certificates with the seal of the                                     
          state affixed, and to notaries public; and providing for                                  
          an effective date."                                                                       
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the State Affairs and Labor and                             
Commerce Committees.