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HB 104                                                                                                                        
Message dated April 14 was read stating the House failed to concur in                                                           
the Senate amendment to CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 104(RLS) "An                                                                      
Act renaming the Alaska performance scholarship and relating to the                                                             
scholarship and tax credits applicable to contributions to the scholarship;                                                     
relating to AlaskAdvantage education grant funding and to Alaska                                                                
performance scholarship funding; establishing an account and fund for                                                           
those purposes; making conforming amendments; and providing for an                                                              
effective date" and respectfully requests the Senate to recede from its                                                         
amendment, namely:                                                                                                              

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         SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO.                                                                                    
         104(FIN) "An Act renaming the Alaska performance                                                                       
         scholarship and relating to the scholarship and tax                                                                    
         credits applicable to contributions to the scholarship;                                                                
         relating to AlaskAdvantage education grant funding and                                                                 
         to Alaska performance scholarship funding; relating to                                                                 
         AlaskAdvantage education grant eligibility; establishing                                                               
         accounts and a fund for those purposes; making                                                                         
         conforming amendments; and providing for an effective                                                                  
         date."                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
In the event the Senate fails to recede, the Speaker has appointed the                                                          
following members to a Conference Committee to meet with a like                                                                 
committee from the Senate to consider the bills:                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
     Representative Thomas, Chair                                                                                               
     Representative Austerman                                                                                                   
     Representative Gara                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Senator Meyer moved that the Senate recede from its amendment and                                                               
recommended the body vote no.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
The question being: "Shall the Senate recede from its amendment?" The                                                           
roll was taken with the following result:                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
SCS CSHB 104(FIN)                                                                                                               
Shall the Senate Recede from its Amendment                                                                                      
to CSHB 104(RLS)?                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  5   NAYS:  15   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Coghill, Dyson, Giessel, Huggins, Wagoner                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Nays:  Davis, Egan, Ellis, French, Hoffman, Kookesh, McGuire, Menard,                                                           
Meyer, Olson, Paskvan, Stedman, Stevens, Thomas, Wielechowski                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
and so, the Senate failed to recede.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
The President appointed the following members to a Conference                                                                   
Committee to meet with the like committee from the House:                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
     Senator Hoffman, Chair                                                                                                     
     Senator Meyer                                                                                                              
     Senator Thomas                                                                                                             

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The Secretary was requested to notify the House.