03/12/2008 03:30 PM Senate RESOURCES

            CSHB 267(RES)-WILDLIFE VIOLATOR COMPACT                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
3:38:57 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  HUGGINS announced  consideration of  HB 267.   Before  the                                                               
committee was CSHB 267(RES).                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
JEANNE  OSTNES, Staff  to  Representative  Craig Johnson,  Alaska                                                               
State Legislature,  on behalf of Representative  Johnson, sponsor                                                               
of HB  267, referred to  yesterday's discussion of  the database.                                                               
She gave  her understanding that  Alaska's open-records  law puts                                                               
these people on  the court system's computers.   All the Wildlife                                                               
Violator Compact does  is duplicate that onto the  database.  She                                                               
pointed out that  only adults go on the database,  no matter what                                                               
the age  of adulthood  is in  a particular state.   In  Alaska, a                                                               
person  receives a  fishing or  hunting  license at  age 16,  but                                                               
wouldn't go onto the database until considered an adult, age 18.                                                                
                                                                                                                                
3:40:19 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR McGUIRE moved  to adopt CSHB 267(RES), Version  O.  There                                                               
were no objections and it was so ordered.                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  McGUIRE moved  to report  CSHB  267(RES) from  committee                                                               
with individual  recommendations and  attached zero  fiscal note.                                                               
There  being no  objection, CSHB  267(RES) was  moved out  of the                                                               
Senate Resources Standing Committee.