02/17/2004 03:37 PM Senate STA

           HB 304-JACK COGHILL BRIDGE TO THE INTERIOR                                                                       
                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR GARY STEVENS  announced HB 304 to be  up for consideration.                                                               
He asked  Representative Coghill's  staff member to  come forward                                                               
and introduce the bill.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
WILLOW  SEAY, staff  to Representative  John  Coghill, said  this                                                               
bill would allow  bridge 216 to be named the  Jack Coghill Bridge                                                               
to the Interior.                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR LYMAN HOFFMAN jestingly  asked if this was Representative                                                               
Coghill's major piece of legislation for the year.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
MS.  SEAY   smiled  broadly  and  said,   "Certainly,  it's  very                                                               
important."                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR GARY  STEVENS added  that Jack Coghill  served in  an early                                                               
Legislature and he is alive today.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  GRETCHEN GUESS  made  a motion  to move  HB  304 out  of                                                               
committee  with  individual   recommendations  and  the  attached                                                               
fiscal note. There being no objection, it was so ordered.