04/30/2002 01:36 PM Senate TRA

                                                                                                                                
         HB 374-NAMING DOUTHIT VETERANS' MEMORIAL BRIDGE                                                                    
                                                                                                                              
CHAIRMAN JOHN  COWDERY called the Senate Transportation  Committee                                                            
meeting to  order at 1:36 p.m. and  announced HB 374 to  be up for                                                              
consideration.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  KEN  LANCASTER,   sponsor  of  HB  374,  said  the                                                              
designated  bridge spans  the Kenai  River  at Soldotna.  Sergeant                                                              
David Douthit  is the  only Alaskan  to give  his life during  the                                                              
1991 Gulf  War. He died  on February 27,  1991 and is  survived by                                                              
his widow,  Jesse, their  daughter, Rebecca,  and his parents  who                                                              
continue to live in Soldotna.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SENTOR WARD moved to pass HB 374  out of committee with individual                                                              
recommendations. There were no objections and it was so ordered.