03/04/2008 01:30 PM House FINANCE

HOUSE BILL NO. 326                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     An  Act authorizing  the governor  to  delegate to  the                                                                    
     adjutant general  the authority to order  the organized                                                                    
     militia into  active state service and  authorizing the                                                                    
     payment  of Alaska  National Guard  called into  active                                                                    
     state  service  to  fight wildfires  at  rates  of  pay                                                                    
     established   for   certain   emergency   fire-fighting                                                                    
     personnel; and providing for an effective date.                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Meyer summarized previous  action taken on the bill                                                                    
during  the  3/3/08  meeting, which  includes  adopting  new                                                                    
fiscal notes.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Representative Hawker appreciated  the technical corrections                                                                    
made to  the Department of Natural  Resources and Department                                                                    
of Military and Veterans Affairs fiscal notes.                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair Stoltze  MOVED to  REPORT CSHB  326 (FIN)  out of                                                                    
Committee  with  individual  recommendations  and  with  the                                                                    
accompanying  fiscal notes.   There  being NO  OBJECTION, it                                                                    
was so ordered.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
CSHB  326 (FIN)  was reported  out of  Committee with  a "no                                                                    
recommendation  and with  a new zero note  by the Department                                                                    
of Military and Veterans  Affairs, new indeterminate note by                                                                    
the Department of Natural Resources  and zero note #1 by the                                                                    
Department of Administration.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
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