SJR  4-AK LEGALLY ACQUIRED IVORY USE EXEMPTION                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
3:56:34 PM                                                                                                                    
CHAIR BISHOP  announced consideration  of SJR  4. He  said public                                                               
testimony was closed in the last hearing.                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
3:56:40 PM                                                                                                                    
At ease                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
3:57:21 PM                                                                                                                    
SENATOR DONNY  OLSON, Alaska  State Legislature,  Juneau, Alaska,                                                               
sponsor of SJR  4, thanked the chair for  hearing the resolution.                                                               
It supports local  artists who use the  byproducts of subsistence                                                               
hunting to  create and  sell handicrafts,  and urges  the federal                                                               
delegation to introduce legislation  for the exemption of legally                                                               
acquired walrus, mammoth, narwhal, and mastodon ivory.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  MACKINNON said  for  the people  who  missed the  public                                                               
hearing last  week that  the committee does  take email  or other                                                               
comments on legislative issues.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  MACKINNON moved  to report  SJR 4,  version 30-LS0109\D,                                                               
from  committee  with  individual  recommendations  and  attached                                                               
fiscal note(s).                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR BISHOP announced  that without objection, SJR  4 moved from                                                               
the Senate Community and Regional Affairs Standing Committee.