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HJR 32                                                                                                                        
The following was read the second time:                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
    HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 32                                                                                               
    Expressing commitment to the rural health transformation                                                                    
    program and articulating priorities for the program;                                                                        
    acknowledging the critical health care challenges facing rural                                                              
    areas of the state; urging action by the Governor and the Alaska                                                            
    delegation in Congress to continue to advocate for the state's                                                              
    interests and advance the rural health transformation program; and                                                          
    expressing legislative intent to enact comprehensive legislation                                                            
    relating to the rural health transformation program and the state's                                                         
    medical care and critical health care needs.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
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Representative Kopp moved and asked unanimous consent that the                                                                  
following committee substitute be adopted in lieu of the original bill:                                                         
                                                                                                                                
    CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 32(HSS)                                                                                   
    Expressing commitment to the rural health transformation                                                                    

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    program; acknowledging the critical health care challenges facing                                                           
    rural areas of the state; and urging action by the Governor and the                                                         
    Alaska delegation in Congress to continue to advocate for the                                                               
    state's interests and advance the rural health transformation                                                               
    program.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
There being no objection, it was so ordered.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Representative Kopp moved and asked unanimous consent that                                                                      
CSHJR 32(HSS) be considered engrossed, advanced to third reading,                                                               
and placed on final passage.  There being no objection, it was so                                                               
ordered.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
CSHJR 32(HSS) was read the third time.                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Representative Stutes, citing Section 101.1 of Mason's Manual, rose to                                                          
a point of order regarding confining remarks to the proposal before the                                                         
body.                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
The Speaker ruled the point well taken.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
The question being:  "Shall CSHJR 32(HSS) pass the House?"  The                                                                 
roll was taken with the following result:                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
CSHJR 32(HSS)                                                                                                                   
Third Reading                                                                                                                   
Final Passage                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  40   NAYS:  0   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Allard, Bynum, Carrick, Costello, Coulombe, Dibert, Edgmon,                                                              
Eischeid, Elam, Fields, Foster, Frier, Galvin, Gray, Hall, Hannan,                                                              
Himschoot, Holland, Jimmie, Johnson, Josephson, Kopp, McCabe,                                                                   
Mears, Mina, Moore, D.Nelson, G.Nelson, Prax, Ruffridge, Saddler,                                                               
Schrage, Schwanke, St. Clair, Stapp, Story, Stutes, Tomaszewski,                                                                
Underwood, Vance                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
And so, CSHJR 32(HSS) passed the House and was referred to the                                                                  
Chief Clerk for engrossment.