2009-01-21                     Senate Journal                      Page 0036
SB 45                                                                                                                         
SENATE BILL NO. 45 BY SENATORS HUGGINS AND                                                                                      
THERRIAULT, entitled:                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
           "An Act relating to state employment preferences for                                                                 
           veterans, former prisoners of war, and members of                                                                    
           the Alaska National Guard; authorizing the                                                                           
           Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs to                                                                      
           establish and maintain Alaska veterans' cemeteries;                                                                  
           establishing the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund in the                                                               
           general fund; and authorizing the legislature to                                                                     
           appropriate income from fees collected for                                                                           
           commemorative veterans' plates to the Alaska                                                                         
           veterans' cemetery fund."                                                                                            
           (Prefile released January 9, 2009)                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the State Affairs, Labor and                                                            
Commerce and Finance Committees.