HOUSE HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL                                                                                     
            SERVICES STANDING COMMITTEE                                                                                         
                   March 23, 1999                                                                                               
                     3:00 p.m.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE CALENDAR                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
BRIDGES CAMPAIGN PRESENTATION                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
TAPE                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
99-22, SIDE A & B                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
CALL TO ORDER                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIRMAN COGHILL called the House Health, Education and Social                                                               
Services Standing Committee meeting to order at 3:00 p.m.                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
PRESENT                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Committee members present were Representatives Dyson, Coghill,                                                                  
Whitaker, Green, Morgan, Brice and Kemplen.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
The following people testified on behalf of the Bridges Campaign                                                                
and urged the committee to support comprehensive dental care and                                                                
community mental health programs for "mental health consumers":                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
JERI LANIER of Fairbanks.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
CHRISTINE DELGADO of Anchorage.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
DICK MARK of Dillingham.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
MARILYN REEVES of Homer.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
SEAN STIMPFLE of Juneau.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
BETH LaCROSSE of Ketchikan.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
TERRY SHOCKEY of Soldotna.                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
BEV FONOTI of Fairbanks.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
JUSTIN MACK of Anchorage.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
JAN McGILLIVARY of Anchorage.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SANDRA HATTEN of Kenai.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE ACTION                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
The committee took no action                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIRMAN COGHILL called for an at-ease at 3:59 p.m. in order to                                                              
hear HB 17 and HJR 6. [The minutes for those bills are found in the                                                             
4:04 p.m. minutes for the same date.]                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
NOTE:  The meeting was recorded and handwritten log notes were                                                                  
taken.  A copy of the tape and log notes may be obtained by                                                                     
contacting the House Records Office at 130 Seward Street, Suite                                                                 
211, Juneau, Alaska  99801-1182, (907) 465-2214, and after                                                                      
adjournment of the second session of the Twenty-first Alaska State                                                              
Legislature, in the Legislative Reference Library.