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2016-04-17 Senate Journal

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2016-04-17                     Senate Journal                      Page 2587
HCR 30                                                                                                                        
Senator Coghill moved and asked unanimous consent to take up                                                                    
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 30, which had been                                                                              
held on the Secretary's desk (page 2549). Without objection, the                                                                
resolution was before the Senate on final passage.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
The question being: "Shall HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION                                                                          
NO. 30 Suspending Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e), Uniform Rules                                                              
of the Alaska State Legislature, concerning Senate Bill No. 74,                                                                 

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relating to diagnosis, treatment, and prescription of drugs without a                                                           
physical examination by a physician; relating to the delivery of                                                                
services by a licensed professional counselor, marriage and family                                                              
therapist, psychologist, psychological associate, and social worker by                                                          
audio, video, or data communications; relating to the duties of the                                                             
State Medical Board; relating to limitations of actions; establishing the                                                       
Alaska Medical Assistance False Claim and Reporting Act; relating to                                                            
medical assistance programs administered by the Department of                                                                   
Health and Social Services; relating to the controlled substance                                                                
prescription database; relating to the duties of the Board of Pharmacy;                                                         
relating to the duties of the Department of Commerce, Community,                                                                
and Economic Development; relating to accounting for program                                                                    
receipts; relating to public record status of records related to the                                                            
Alaska Medical Assistance False Claim and Reporting Act;                                                                        
establishing a telemedicine business registry; relating to competitive                                                          
bidding for medical assistance products and services; relating to                                                               
verification of eligibility for public assistance programs administered                                                         
by the Department of Health and Social Services; relating to annual                                                             
audits of state medical assistance providers; relating to reporting                                                             
overpayments of medical assistance payments; establishing authority                                                             
to assess civil penalties for violations of medical assistance program                                                          
requirements; relating to seizure and forfeiture of property for medical                                                        
assistance fraud; relating to the duties of the Department of Health and                                                        
Social Services; establishing medical assistance demonstration                                                                  
projects; relating to Alaska Pioneers' Homes and Alaska Veterans'                                                               
Homes; relating to the duties of the Department of Administration;                                                              
relating to the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority; relating to                                                               
feasibility studies for the provision of specified state services; and                                                          
amending Rules 4, 5, 7, 12, 24, 26, 27, 41, 77, 79, 82, and 89, Alaska                                                          
Rules of Civil Procedure, and Rule 37, Alaska Rules of Criminal                                                                 
Procedure, pass the Senate?" The roll was taken with the following                                                              
result:                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
HCR 30                                                                                                                          
Final Passage                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  20   NAYS:  0   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Bishop, Coghill, Costello, Dunleavy, Egan, Ellis, Gardner,                                                               
Giessel, Hoffman, Huggins, Kelly, MacKinnon, McGuire, Meyer,                                                                    
Micciche, Olson, Stedman, Stevens, Stoltze, Wielechowski                                                                        
                                                                                                                                

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and so, HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 30 passed the                                                                           
Senate, was signed by the President and Secretary and returned to the                                                           
House.