04/09/1999 03:10 PM Senate RES

                                                                                                                                
             SB 91-ENFORCEMENT OF SUBSISTENCE LAWS                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
CHAIRMAN HALFORD called the Senate Resources Committee meeting to                                                               
order at 3:10 p.m. and announced SB 91 to be up for consideration.                                                              
                                                                                                                                
MR. BRETT HUBER, Senate Resource Committee Aide, explained that the                                                             
proposed CS to SB 91, version I, has language added that was                                                                    
suggested by the Department of Public Safety and is the same                                                                    
language that was added to SB 68.  This language appears on page 1,                                                             
line 14 and in subsection (c).  It offers the Department of Public                                                              
Safety the opportunity to respond, "in unforeseen absence of                                                                    
assistance from available federal source to avert a present and                                                                 
substantial risk of physical harm to a person."  It also exempts                                                                
the provisions of this bill from some of the current federal/state                                                              
relationships found in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Pacific                                                               
Halibut Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Endangered                                                                   
Species Act, the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Act, and the Pacific                                                                  
Salmon Treaty.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
LT. HOWARD STARBARD, Department of Public Safety, said the                                                                      
committee substitute addresses their enforcement concerns and they                                                              
no longer oppose the bill.                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR TAYLOR moved to adopt the CS to SB 91.  There were no                                                                   
objections and it was adopted.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR MACKIE moved to pass CSSB 91(RES) from committee with                                                                   
individual recommendations.  There were no objections and it was so                                                             
ordered.