2019-03-04                     Senate Journal                      Page 0450
The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 1 be adopted?" The roll                                                                
was taken with the following result:                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
SJR 7                                                                                                                           
Second Reading                                                                                                                  
Amendment No. 1?                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  7   NAYS:  11   EXCUSED:  2   ABSENT:  0                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Begich, Gray-Jackson, Kawasaki, Kiehl, Olson, Reinbold,                                                                  
Wielechowski                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Nays:  Birch, Bishop, Coghill, Costello, Giessel, Hughes, Micciche,                                                             
Shower, Stedman, Stevens, Wilson                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Excused:  Hoffman, von Imhof                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
and so, Amendment No. 1 failed.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Senator Wielechowski offered Amendment No. 2 :                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Page 1, line 3, following "Refuge":                                                                                           
     Insert "; and urging that congress amend the Tax Cuts and                                                                
Jobs Act to honor the Alaska Statehood Act with respect to the                                                                
state's share of bonuses, royalties, and rentals from exploration                                                             
and development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge"                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Page 2, following line 17:                                                                                                      
     Insert new material to read:                                                                                               
     "WHEREAS sec. 28 of the Alaska Statehood Act provides, "[a]ll                                                            
net profits from operation of Government mines, and all bonuses,                                                                
royalties, and rentals under leases as herein provided and all other                                                            
payments received under this Act shall be distributed as follows as                                                             
soon as practicable after December 31 and June 30 of each year: (1) 90                                                          
per centum thereof shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to                                                            
the State of Alaska for disposition by the legislature thereof; and (2)                                                         
10 per centum shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States                                                           
to the credit of miscellaneous receipts"; and                                                                                   
     WHEREAS sec. 20001 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-                                                               
97) provides for a 50 percent share to Alaska with the federal                                                                  
government for bonuses, royalties, and rentals from mineral leases on                                                           
federal land in the state, in contravention of the percentage shares                                                            
required under the Alaska Statehood Act; and"