SJR 3 - REPEAL OF REGULATIONS BY LEGISLATURE CHAIRMAN KOTT announced the next item of business is SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the repeal of regulations by the legislature. Number 0359 JOHN KIMMEL, Legislative Administrative Assistant to Senator Robin Taylor, Alaska State Legislature, noted that SJR 3 proposes to repeal regulations that are contrary to their enabling statutes. This language is very focused and is not as broad as previous legislation. Number 0456 SENATOR ROBIN TAYLOR, Alaska State Legislature, came before the committee noting it is difficult to repeal a regulation that has been passed by an agency. The issue that was previously presented to the public was that any regulation could be repealed by resolution and it did not have any qualifying language. This language, SJR 3, actually qualifies it and says you can only repeal a regulation that fails to meet the intent of the legislation upon which the regulation is based. He said, "It actually is quite a bit narrower, we did that on purpose because we were hoping to focus the real issue to the public better. And I think in the past, one of the reasons the public has rejected it is that it looked like just a power grab by the legislature and one without a basis and I think this language actually speaks to the reason why the legislature might find it necessary to repeal a regulation and that's why the language is a little different." CHAIRMAN KOTT requested the years that the previous ballot propositions were put before the voters. KIMMEL replied 1980, 1984 and 1986. CHAIRMAN KOTT asked whether these propositions were put forward based on a democratic majority. SENATOR TAYLOR replied yes. CHAIRMAN KOTT stated that he wants the public to know that this is a bipartisan issue. Number 0704 REPRESENTATIVE JAMES moved to report SJR 3 out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal note. There being no objection, it was so moved from the House Judiciary Standing Committee. CHAIRMAN KOTT called for a brief at-ease at 5:40 p.m. and called the committee back to order at 5:41 p.m.