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10/05/2021 11:00 AM House LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
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ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OCTOBER 05, 2021
11:00 AM
MEMBERS PRESENT
Representative Sara Hannan, Chair
Senator Lora Reinbold, Vice Chair
Representative Matt Claman
Representative Bryce Edgmon
Representative Neal Foster
Representative Louise Stutes
Representative Cathy Tilton
Representative Chris Tuck
Senator Click Bishop
Senator Peter Micciche
Senator Mike Shower
Senator Bert Stedman
Senator Gary Stevens
MEMBERS ABSENT
Senator Lyman Hoffman
Senator Shelley Hughes (alternate)
OTHER MEMBERS PRESENT
Representative Steve Thompson
AGENDA
CALL TO ORDER
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
RATIFICATION OF CHARITABLE EVENT
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
OTHER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
ADJOURN
SPEAKER REGISTER
Jessica Geary, Executive Director, Legislative Affairs
Agency (LAA)
11:03:48 AM
I. CALL TO ORDER
CHAIR HANNAN called the Legislative Council meeting to
order at 11:03 AM in the House Finance Committee Room.
Present at the call were: Representatives Claman, Edgmon,
Foster, Hannan, Stutes, Tilton; Senators Bishop, Reinbold,
Stedman, Stevens.
Representative Tuck joined at 11:05am; Senate President
Micciche joined at 11:13am; and Senator Shower joined at
11:25am.
Members absent were: Senators Hoffman and Hughes.
Thirteen members present.
II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
11:05:17 AM
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD moved and asked unanimous consent that
the Legislative Council approve the agenda as presented.
CHAIR HANNAN, noting no objection, said the agenda was
approved.
III. RATIFICATION OF CHARITABLE EVENT
11:05:38 AM
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD moved and asked unanimous consent that
the Legislative Council ratify the Chairs sanctioning of
the following charitable event per AS 24.60.080(a)(2)(B):
Junior Achievement of Alaskas Business Hall of Fame Event
Thursday, January 20, 2022, Denaina Center, Anchorage.
CHAIR HANNAN objected for the purposes of discussion and
said she had already sanctioned this event after verifying
that it was a 501(c)(3) organization. She asked if there
were any questions or discussion surrounding that before
ratification. After noting neither of the above, she
removed her objection, and stated that the event was now
ratified.
IV. COMMITTEE BUSINESS
11:06:50 AM
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD moved that Legislative Council adopt
the COVID-19 Mitigation Policy as amended.
CHAIR HANNAN noted that members had copies of the current
policy and that there were a couple options before the
Council. She gave the floor to the Legislative Affairs
Agencys Executive Director, Jessica Geary, to walk members
through proposed changes to COVID-19 policy and respond to
questions.
JESSICA GEARY stated her name and title for the record. She
described the proposed changes to clarify the masking
section of the policy, noting the current policy said N95
masks were not allowable. The intent, she said, was to
disallow masks with exhalation valves, but the new policy
would allow the use of N95 masks. She said the substantive
changes were under Section III, Cycle Testing and
Screening. Ms. Geary said the two options before members
were considered to offer flexibility to members during the
fourth special session and all the unknowns that would come
with it. She explained that she reached out to Beacon, the
Legislature's previous COVID mitigation contractor, and
learned they had a contract with the State of Alaska that
covered all State facilities. We explored this option and
while simple, it offered fewer servicesit would be
essentially staff time and testing (no screening, etc.).
The other option would be to create a separate contract,
hire screeners, and create clearance cards all of which
could use some funds left from Beacons January contract
with the Legislature. She said she was aware this might be
confusing and would be glad to take questions before
continuing.
SENATOR STEVENS thanked Ms. Geary for the options and asked
from a purely fiscal point of view which cost less.
MS. GEARY said the first option would not cost the
Legislature any additional funds.
REPRESENTATIVE TILTON stated that the current policy
focused on personal responsibility which she preferred over
required testing, etc. She said she wanted to bring to
members attention that when the masking policy was created
during the last meeting, there was discussion about
following the lead of the city in which the meeting was
being held (Juneau) in both the Capitol as well as in LIOs
around the state. She thought that other cities' mask
policies should be honored by the Legislative Information
Offices within them. She then asked what, individuals must
test at least every four days meant.
MS. GEARY said that individuals in the policy referred to
those who were required to participate in cycle testing, so
was a continuation of the previous policy.
REPRESENTATIVE TILTON confirmed that individuals then
referred to legislators and legislative staff, and
expressed she was concerned about members of the public
being asked to test, etc.
MS. GEARY said that it would be up to Legislative Council
to draft any policy extending testing to members of the
public, but as this policy was written, it was only
currently required that visitors to the Capitol self-screen
for symptoms and not enter if they had COVID-19 symptoms.
REPRESENTATIVE TILTON said that Option 2 limited Capitol
access to just screening stations and asked if Option 1
would not limit access.
MS. GEARY said that was correct; that Option 1 could be
viewed as more of an honor system policy.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said that first, under Item 4, it said
that legislators and legislative staff must isolate as
directed by health authorities. She wanted to know who the
health authorities were and what was being directed with
the word isolate.
MS. GEARY said that language did not change from previous
policy and said what it meant was if one tested positive
they would be directed to quarantine as directed by public
health.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said she was concerned that, health
authorities was too broad of language.
MS. GEARY said the intent was the health authorities with
the State or Municipality, whoever was conducting contact
tracing for that area. Contact tracing was not part of the
contract being considered today, unlike last session where
contractors were providing contact tracing and quarantine
services.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said so this is basically on the honor
system?
MS. GEARY responded yes, in a sense, but it was her
understanding that if someone tested positive, public
health would contact them and let them know that they are
to be quarantining for whatever that time period is.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD asked if the PCR tests were still under
Emergency Use Authorization or if they had been FDA
approved.
MS. GEARY said she did not have that information.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said that it was her understanding they
were currently still under Emergency Use Authorization and
therefore could not be mandated and said she would vote no
because she believed it to be both illegal and
unconstitutional. She said she was concerned that she could
not know who the provider would be and what would be
required. She said for the record that if there was any
news about a contract with Beacon, she had not yet seen it
and would like to know everything there was to know about
that contract and expressed concerns about legislators
being leaders and representing their constituents but being
forced to do things against their will and against the
constitution. She described this as the most
unconstitutional thing she had ever seen.
CHAIR HANNAN clarified for the record that Representative
Tuck joined the Council at 11:05am and Senator Micciche
joined at 11:13am.
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN asked scheduling questions about
Option 1, and detailed specific travel days to explain.
MS. GEARY said that with travel, this would be a concern
for many legislators. She said the current advice is that
when one traveled, they would test afterward. She continued
that this policy said one PCR test would be available and
following tests would be antigen rapid tests with results
available in thirty minutes.
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN asked if these tests were related to
Capitol access, rather than LIOs and other Legislative
facilities.
MS. GEARY confirmed that was correct; this was specific to
the Capitol Complex.
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN clarified that he would only need to
test upon returning to the Capitol.
MS. GEARY confirmed that was correct.
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN reconfirmed that this policy only
applied to Capitol Complex and not to LIOs around the
state.
MS. GEARY confirmed he was correct and said that there was
not testing resources through the Legislature in those
facilities, but if this Council wanted to make testing
available in those communities, she could check into that.
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN asked where in Juneau the testing
would be held.
MS. GEARY said it would be in the Assembly Building.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK detailed a resolution that had passed
the House and was being considered by the Senate that would
allow committee meetings to be held in the Anchorage LIO
with public participation. He asked if that passed, would
there be any concern about testing in Anchorage, or were
members only worried about COVID-19 spread in Juneau.
MS. GEARY said it was her understanding that there was
COVID-19 concern statewide, but that this policy only
contemplated the Capitol Complex, but if it was the intent
of the Legislature to have meetings in Anchorage, then this
committee could ask her to investigate testing options for
the Anchorage LIO.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK expressed that the Legislature was not
at present taking into consideration any meetings outside
of Juneau.
CHAIR HANNAN said it was at her direction that Ms. Geary
was asked to investigate the possibilities of expanding the
Legislatures mitigation policy in the wake of a fourth
special session in the Capitol Complex. She said she did
not ask her to investigate trying to institute COVID-19
mitigation policies stronger than masking and self-
screening at any other LIOs or locations across the state.
The impetus was a gathering of sixty Legislators coming
together from a variety of points around Alaska
concentrated together, so that is where the two options
originated as to what to do for this complex during this
special session, but it would retain self-screening, face-
covering, and masking in all locations.
CHAIR HANNAN noted Senator Showers arrival to the meeting
at 11:25am.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said she wanted to make sure she
understood clearly that under cycle testing and screening,
both options required test participation of legislators and
staff to access the Capitol, but not of the public. She
asked if that was true.
CHAIR HANNAN confirmed that she was correct.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said that that legislators and staff
would not be allowed to access the Capitol if they did not
take a non-FDA approved test, meaning the policy would
block them from performing their fiduciary responsibility.
She said this policy made CDC guidance mandatory for
isolation and contact tracing even though federal law
stated EUA could not be mandated, state law said EUA was
opt-in, and the constitution required legislators and staff
to be in the Capitol. She stated again that this was the
most unconstitutional thing she had ever seen and that she
would vote an absolute and passionate no.
SENATE PRESIDENT MICCICHE acknowledged his lateness and
confirmed he had the correct paperwork in front of him and
then asked for more information about the types of approved
masks.
MS. GEARY said that updates included adding under approved
face shields with a droplet barrier, and under masking,
approved clear masks, gaiters made of tightly woven
material of multiple layers. She said that scarves were
added to the list of unacceptable face coverings and N95
masks were removed from that list.
SENATE PRESIDENT MICCICHE stated his question was how those
updates interacted with Options 1 and 2, or if that was a
separate document and may not be what was being discussed.
MS. GEARY said that in both Options, the masking policy was
identical. The only substantial changes, she said, were in
Section 3 under Cycle Testing & Screening, as well as a
Risk Level Notification requirement which stated that her
office would notify legislators and staff of whatever
protocols were going on at that particular facility. These,
she said, were the only differences, and then said Option 1
was more of an honor system and Option 2 had some
requirements for verification of negative COVID-19 test.
SENATE PRESIDENT MICCICHE asked if Option 1 included
individuals who had regular business in the Capitol or not.
MS. GEARY confirmed that those individuals were not
included.
SENATE PRESIDENT MICCICHE spoke about the compliance and
scheduling issues when cycle testing was every day and
asked if it was possible to do once-weekly testing like
members and staff had done at one point, citing the ease of
that method.
CHAIR HANNAN said she was not sure she was able to answer
that question and informed him of Representative Clamans
scheduling/travel question from earlier. She said that
Option 1, being an honor system, could allow for such a
scenario as weekly testing, but that she believed there was
a reason within the definition of cycle testing that led to
the policy being written as it was currently. She asked Ms.
Geary if she would confirm.
MS. GEARY said that she was correct, and to have a robust
testing program there had to be repetition of tests, and
the best way to catch positive cases is to test every four
days. That is more feasible if everyone was in Juneau,
which is common during regular session, but less likely for
special session.
SENATE PRESIDENT MICCICHE thanked them both and apologized
for being late and having to be filled in.
CHAIR HANNAN said it was no problem and let him know
members had not yet had a motion on one option over the
other but were currently discussing both options.
SENATOR STEVENS asked if the existing contract between the
State and Beacon would extend into next regular session.
MS. GEARY said that work was being done to extend that
contract, and that the current policy did not have an
expiration so it would be up to this committee to change or
end it.
SENATOR STEVENS asked the Chair if she recommended either
of the two options.
CHAIR HANNAN said that her understanding was the policy
exists until members amend it again, but that members were
not trying to anticipate all the needs that they would have
for regular session come January. She said she was of two
minds and seeking guidance from the committee. Option 1,
she said, served the Legislature in a low-traffic
environment due to its low fiscal cost, but was reliant on
members to follow policy, participating in cycle testing
without verification. She said that if sixty members and
their staff were concentrated for ten days, some from high-
transmission communities, Option 2 would be the most
health-protective, but at substantial cost. The traffic
flow of the building for special session could guide this
decision; she thought it may be low traffic, but other
members have more accurate estimates.
SENATOR STEVENS said he thought it was important to hear
her thoughts as she had spent more time on this issue than
others, and that he believed it made sense to continue with
Option 1 through special session and then reevaluate for
regular session. He thanked the Chair for her thoughts and
said he believed he supported Option 1.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said that she let her leadership know
she could not make this motion and now that Senate
President Micciche was here, she was going to withdraw her
motion of this policy based on the illegality and the
constitution.
SENATOR BISHOP requested that the Vice-Chair repeat
herself.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said that she notified Senate President
Micciche that she could not make this motion. Because he
was not here at the beginning of the meeting, she went
ahead and made the motion, however she was now withdrawing
it due to her belief that it is illegal on a federal and
state level as well as unconstitutional. If the Chair would
like someone else to make this motion, the Vice-Chair asked
that she do so.
11:39:29 AM
SPEAKER STUTES moved that the Legislative Council adopt the
COVID-19 mitigation policy Option 1.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD and REPRESENTATIVE TILTON objected.
REPRESENTATIVE TILTON said she had spoken with Ms. Geary
about the policy and objected for two reasons: she believed
the masking policy within LIOs should follow that
communitys guidance and that she was a firm believer in
personal responsibility already outlined in the present
COVID-19 policy.
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD said she had made it very clear that
she believed this PCR test could not be mandated and
therefore this policy violated federal law. She said Alaska
was an opt-in, not opt-out state and she had her own
providers in Juneau, Anchorage, and Eagle River, and she
wanted to have them taking care of her, not the policy. In
her mind it was not justified to challenge her
constitutional obligation to vote in the Capitol and she
did not want her staff or herself to be barred based on
what she believed was an illegitimate, illegal,
unconstitutional action, so she would be a no vote.
SENATOR SHOWER apologized for being late to the meeting and
said that the day before, he requested the latest COVID-19
data from a health official in Alaska who told him the
Delta variant was beginning to taper off and with much of
the Legislature vaccinated, he believed no policy was
necessary and certainly supported the lowest cost option if
one must be imposed. He said that this official had said
there were only five patients in Juneau's hospital due to
COVID-19 complications, that Anchorage hospitals were
performing elective surgeries, and that he did not believe
the data suggesting the healthcare system was stressed. He
said masking and self-testing were enough for the present
COVID-19 forecast in his view, and that he did not support
taking a step backward. The Senator said he did not think
the policy was necessary but would defer to the council.
CHAIR HANNAN asked the Senator, since he had requested his
comments to be put on the record, to share formally, in
writing, the guidance and numbers data he received as well
as the name of the health official he cited with Ms. Geary
and the Chair.
SENATOR SHOWER said he would.
CHAIR HANNAN said that since Senator Shower mentioned the
community of Juneaus vaccination rates, she wanted to make
it clear that this policy was not for the community, but
only to legislators and staff. It was her viewpoint that
although the community data would be relevant if the
committee was applying it to everyone who entered the
Capitol, that was not the case so the fact that legislators
were coming from sixty different locations, each of those
locations would have to be considered in the data to
estimate the risk factors for individuals entering the
building.
SENATOR SHOWER said he was not necessarily trying to sway
the discussion but was trying to point it out so there was
a broader base of information for members to consider and
would send the data he had received to her and Ms. Geary.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK asked if anyone had been keeping track
of visitor numbers to the Capitol since opening the
building to the public.
MS. GEARY said that we do not track every visitor who
enters the Capitol. There was a tour guide program during
the summer months that tracked visitor numbers on guided
tours, but there are no numbers on how many people visited
on their own.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK asked if there were any testing
requirements for these people to visit the Capitol.
MS. GEARY said there was no requirement aside from
individuals being made to mask and asked to keep six feet
from anyone working in the building.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK said that if members were going to be
testing and limiting public access to those being tested,
he believed reevaluation of masking requirements was due.
He didnt want to close the Capitol to the public, however,
if that must happen and just legislators and staff were
able to access the building, masking policies must be
reevaluated. He said he had both options in writing before
him but was not sure which was which and asked to have the
current option being considered identified for him.
MS. GEARY said that the committee was discussing Option 1,
that there was no prohibition of visitors to the Capitol
because the initial State contract did not extend to all
visitors to the Capitol complex as it only covered
legislators and staff. She said visitors were expected to
self-screen. The reason Option 2 includes individuals
outside of legislators and staff is because this option
contemplates the Legislature having a separate contract
directly with Beacon.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK asked again to have help identifying
which piece of paper was which option, as neither of them
were labeled as such. He read the differences between the
two.
CHAIR HANNAN let him know that the first one he read was
Option 1.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK thanked her and said he thought it was
a bit premature to consider a policy as members did not yet
know how often they would be in the Capitol during special
session.
REPRESENTATIVE TILTON said she believed there was some
misunderstanding about Option 1; the wording made it seem
like members of the public would be asked to test and
recommended rephrasing the paragraph for clarity.
CHAIR HANNAN asked if the Representative would like to make
a motion to amend the phrasing of the policy.
11:52:19 AM
REPRESENTATIVE TILTON proposed that under item three,
Cycle Testing & Screening, that at the end of the first
paragraph, the word Those be inserted before
individuals.
CHAIR HANNAN asked if there were any objections.
SENATE PRESIDENT MICCICHE said he did not understand and
asked if Representative Tilton would repeat herself.
CHAIR HANNAN offered to repeat it and said at the end of
the first sentence under bullet point three, add those
and add the following paragraph to read those individuals
must be tested every four days....
SENATOR SHOWER asked for clarification.
CHAIR HANNAN said she was trying to clarify that the people
who would be testing would be legislators and staff, the
lead noun of the first sentence.
SENATOR SHOWER asked, just to be clear, if that would
affect the status of the Capitol being open to the public.
CHAIR HANNAN said it would not affect the public and that
it was Representative Tiltons intent that this policy of
cycle testing would only apply to legislators and
legislative staff.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK clarified to make sure that the public
would just have to self-screen, not test.
CHAIR HANNAN said he was correct.
11:54:19 AM
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK said he did not understand why they
impose such rules for themselves when they wouldnt hold
people walking in off the street to the same restriction,
and repeated that this policy enactment seemed premature.
He said he would like to make a motion to table this policy
until Friday, October 8, 2021.
CHAIR HANNAN said she currently had a motion to amend and
wanted to resolve that before taking up the motion to
table.
SENATOR STEVENS said that a motion to table took
precedence, has no discussion, and members need to vote on
that motion.
CHAIR HANNAN noted that there is a motion to table the
mitigation policy until Friday, October 8, 2021, and
requested a roll call vote.
11:55:54 AM
A roll call vote was taken.
YEAS: Representatives Tilton, Tuck; Senators Micciche,
Shower, Reinbold.
NAYS: Representatives Claman, Edgmon, Foster, Hannan,
Stutes; Senators Bishop, Stedman, Stevens.
With 5 yeas and 8 nays, the motion failed.
CHAIR HANNAN asked again if there was any objection to
Representative Tilton's earlier motion to amend. Upon
noting no objections, the policy was amended.
She said, that brings us back to the main motion of the
policy of Option 1 before us. As Chair, she appreciated the
fortitude of committee members to go back and forth on
scheduling, and because of that she asserted that this was
not premature and having a policy that could be acted on
and planned around was beneficial to all members staff,
support staff, and legislators themselves. By adopting
Option 1, she said, if the Council chose to, they would be
continuing to use an existing State contract and if on
Friday, policy needed to be amended, members would benefit
from the flexibility with no additional cost. If, she said,
special session ended up lasting 30 days, members could
decide to increase mitigations as necessary. At this point,
she said, Option 1 gave the Council the most options with
the smallest cost and allowed them to proceed with tighter
or looser mitigation efforts as needed. She recommended a
yes vote on the motion to adopt Option 1.
REPRESENTATIVE EDGMON said that Representative Tucks
comments had merit and perhaps he could have supported the
motion to table, but on the other hand (inaudible) he felt
that at this stage, it was better to have more protections
than fewer. With that in mind, he said he would be
supporting Option 1 and would like to keep a close eye
going forward if mitigation efforts could be decreased.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK said he would also vote to support
Option 1, but did not understand, unless it was a cost
issue, why the Legislature would not test the general
public accessing the Capitol if members efforts were
intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19. He said it
seemed irrational to him to not test all sectors of people
entering the Capitol. He said he would almost rather test
the public and have legislators test only upon travel or
initial re-entry to the Capitol. He said it seemed
irrational to him, but as far as a step towards protection,
he supported Option 1.
CHAIR HANNAN said that one of the things contemplated
regarding his concerns was that on-site, rapid testing was
required if the Legislature was going to grant access only
upon proof of a negative test. The contract in Option 1 did
not allow for rapid tests, she said, which would not work
for a casual visitor. She said Option 1 was not the
tightest mitigation plan members could create to prevent
the transmission of the COVID-19 Delta variant, but it was
a step in the right direction and contemplated the movement
of people who were regularly coming in and out of the
building.
REPRESENTATIVE TUCK said he did not like to cut out the
public and that it seemed like the State was paying a high
cost to test legislators and staff to not mitigate very
effectively by not testing the public. He said that was his
point, but that he would still support the proposal.
SENATE PRESIDENT MICCICHE said he would prefer the proposal
be written as advised to rather than must; he said he
could not have supported Option 2 but could support
Option 1 as that largely left choices up to the individual
even though it included the word must. He said the people
who would test, would test, and the people who were not
going to would not, so this eliminated the need to force
compliance on something that people either believe in or
they do not. He said he would support Option 1 and it would
be up to the individual to be in compliance or not. He
appreciated the two options and that other face covering
options had been added to give some flexibility to some who
were uncomfortable with certain kinds of face masks.
SENATOR STEVENS said he thought members needed to recognize
the remarkably good job done over the course of the
pandemic, under Chair Hannans leadership, with Ms. Gearys
support, in protecting legislators and staff. He said he
was glad to hear some folks thought things were getting
better; he hoped they were right but did not know that it
was true. He said six hundred thousand deaths in the United
States were becoming likely to approach a million, and that
Alaskas rates were the worst in the entire nation. He said
that members job here was to take care of their people for
the next three months, and that adjustment of the
mitigation plan was always an option in the future. He
appreciated Representative Tucks comments about the public
coming to the Capitol and said he would be supporting
Option 1.
12:05:16 PM
A roll call vote was taken.
YEAS: Representatives Claman, Edgmon, Foster, Hannan,
Stutes, Tuck; Senators Bishop, Micciche, Stedman, Stevens.
NAYS: Representative Tilton; Senators Shower, Reinbold.
The motion was adopted 10-3.
V. OTHER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
CHAIR HANNAN introduced the last piece of committee
business, a late travel reimbursement request from
Representative DeLena Johnson dated March of 2021.
12:06:43 PM
VICE-CHAIR REINBOLD moved that the Legislative Council
approve Representative Johnsons late travel reimbursement
request for which took place from March 26 to March 28 of
2021.
CHAIR HANNAN objected for the purposes of discussion and
said that Representative Johnson was present if anyone had
questions for her and that Ms. Geary was prepared to answer
questions about the late travel policy if there were any.
SPEAKER STUTES said she was happy to support it, saying
that Representative Johnson had experienced a tough year
with family deaths, and she could see how this could very
easily have slipped by. She said she was in full support of
a late reimbursement to Representative Johnson.
REPRESENTATIVE TILTON said she had had a discussion with
Representative Johnson the day before and would be
supporting this motion. She then detailed the variety of
reasons, none of which at the fault of the Representative,
that this travel reimbursement was submitted late.
CHAIR HANNAN recommended that members vote yes and said
that at sixty-one days Accounting asks that Legislative
Council approve travel. She then removed her objection and
requested a roll call vote.
12:09:49 PM
A roll call vote was taken.
YEAS: Representatives Claman, Edgmon, Foster, Hannan,
Stutes, Tilton, Tuck; Senators Micciche, Reinbold, Shower,
Stedman, Stevens.
NAYS: None.
The motion passed 12-0.
SENATOR STEDMAN commented that the Legislature had been
very timely and there had been very few late travel
reimbursement requests. He said this was the first one the
Council had received in a while, and it was good that
members kept a tight ship; he appreciated it.
VI. ADJOURN
12:11:27 PM
CHAIR HANNAN, seeing nothing further on the agenda and no
further comments, adjourned.
| Document Name | Date/Time | Subjects |
|---|---|---|
| Current 8.16.2021 COVID-19 Mitigation Policy.pdf |
JLEC 10/5/2021 11:00:00 AM |
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| Agenda--October 4th, 2021, Legislative Council Meeting.pdf |
JLEC 10/5/2021 11:00:00 AM |
|
| Junior Achievement of Alaska--Request for a Sanctioned Chariable Event.pdf |
JLEC 10/5/2021 11:00:00 AM |
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| REVISED Proposed Amended COVID-19 Mitigation Policy--4th Special Session 2021 Option 1 State Beacon Contract.pdf |
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| REVISED Proposed Amended COVID-19 Mitigation Policy--4th Special Session Option 2 with Legislative Council Beacon Contract.pdf |
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