03/05/2024 01:00 PM House MILITARY & VETERANS' AFFAIRS

        HB 228-MENTAL HEALTH/PSYCHEDELIC MED. TASK FORCE                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
1:02:04 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR WRIGHT announced that the  first order of business would be                                                               
HOUSE  BILL  NO. 228,  "An  Act  establishing the  Alaska  mental                                                               
health and psychedelic medicine task  force; and providing for an                                                               
effective date."                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
1:02:27 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  SHAW  moved  to   adopt  the  proposed  committee                                                               
substitute  (CS) to  HB  228, labeled  33-LS0976\P  as a  working                                                               
document.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE CARPENTER objected for the purpose of discussion.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
1:02:50 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
FORREST  WOLFE,  Staff,  Representative  Stanley  Wright,  Alaska                                                               
State  Legislature, on  behalf  of  Representative Wright,  prime                                                               
sponsor, read  the explanation of changes  [included in committee                                                               
packet], which read as follows [original punctuation provided]:                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
     The Military  & Veterans' Affairs  Committee Substitute                                                                    
     for House  Bill 228  (Work Order  33-LS0976\P) reflects                                                                    
     the  two  amendments  made at  the  previous  committee                                                                    
     hearing on 2/29/24.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
     1. Page 2,  following line 24: Inserts  a new paragraph                                                                    
     to read:                                                                                                                   
     o  "(9)  one   member  representing  psychiatric  nurse                                                                    
     practitioners, selected  by the  board of  directors of                                                                    
     the   Alaska   Advanced   Practice   Registered   Nurse                                                                    
     Alliance;"                                                                                                                 
     o Renumbers the following paragraphs accordingly.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
     2.  Page 1,  line 8:  Deletes "Department  of Commerce,                                                                    
     Community,  and   Economic  Development"   and  inserts                                                                    
     "legislature."                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
     3. Page  3, Line  3 subsection  (c): deletes  "The task                                                                    
     force shall elect  a chair from among  its members" and                                                                    
     inserts "The members appointed by  the president of the                                                                    
     senate and the speaker  of the house of representatives                                                                    
     under (b)(11) and  (12) of this section  shall serve as                                                                    
     co-chairs of the task force."                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
1:04:11 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE CARPENTER  removed his objection.   There being no                                                               
further  objection,   Version  P  was  adopted   as  the  working                                                               
document.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
1:04:37 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  SHAW  moved  to  report  CSHB  228,  Version  33-                                                               
LS0976\P, out  of committee  with individual  recommendations and                                                               
the accompanying  fiscal notes.   There being no  objection, CSHB
(MLV)  was reported  out  of the  House  Special Committee  on                                                               
Military and Veterans' Affairs.