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HB 36                                                                                                                         
SENATE CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 36(FIN) "An Act relating to                                                                        
treatment foster homes; relating to the placement of foster children in                                                         
hospitals and residential psychiatric treatment centers for psychiatric                                                         
care; relating to the duties of the Department of Family and                                                                    
Community Services; relating to the care of children in state custody                                                           
placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities outside the state;                                                       
amending Rule 12.1(b), Alaska Child in Need of Aid Rules of                                                                     
Procedure; and providing for an effective date" was read the third                                                              
time.                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
The question being: "Shall SENATE CS FOR HOUSE BILL                                                                             
NO. 36(FIN) "An Act relating to treatment foster homes; relating to                                                             
the placement of foster children in hospitals and residential psychiatric                                                       
treatment centers for psychiatric care; relating to the duties of the                                                           
Department of Family and Community Services; relating to the care of                                                            
children in state custody placed in psychiatric residential treatment                                                           
facilities outside the state; amending Rule 12.1(b), Alaska Child in                                                            
Need of Aid Rules of Procedure; and providing for an effective date"                                                            
pass the Senate?" The roll was taken with the following result:                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
SCS HB 36(FIN)                                                                                                                  
Third Reading - Final Passage                                                                                                   
Court Rule(s) - Effective Date(s)                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  19   NAYS:  0   EXCUSED:  1   ABSENT:  0                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Bjorkman, Claman, Cronk, Dunbar, Giessel, Gray-Jackson,                                                                  
Hoffman, Kaufman, Kawasaki, Kiehl, Merrick, Myers, Olson,                                                                       
Rauscher, Stedman, Stevens, Tilton, Tobin, Wielechowski                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Excused:  Yundt                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                

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and so, SENATE CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 36(FIN) passed the                                                                         
Senate.                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Senator Giessel moved and asked unanimous consent the vote on the                                                               
passage of the bill be considered the vote on the court rule change.                                                            
Without objection, it was so ordered.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Senator Giessel moved and asked unanimous consent the vote on the                                                               
passage of the bill be considered the vote on the effective date clauses.                                                       
Without objection, it was so ordered and the bill was referred to the                                                           
Secretary for engrossment.