SJR 22-OPPOSE WARRANTLESS DATA COLLECTION  1:18:56 PM CHAIR KELLER listed the bills to be discussed at today's hearing, and then he announced that the next order of business would be SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 22 am: Opposing the warrantless collection of telephone call data by the National Security Agency. 1:20:18 PM SENATOR CATHY GIESSEL, Alaska State Legislature, said SJR 22 "calls out the NSA [National Security Agency] and their bulk telephone record program, which has been capturing our telephone records, storing them, viewing them, and this calls out our opposition to this program." She said SJR 22 has bipartisan support in the Alaska Senate and across the country, and it calls out the violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments by this program. "We are simply urging the federal government to truly abandon the program," she summarized. 1:21:22 PM CHAIR KELLER noted that the version before the committee was amended on the Senate floor and is labeled 1391\U.a. JANE CONWAY, Staff to Senator Cathy Giessel, Alaska State Legislature, said the Senate, on the floor, added the governor to the list of recipients and the following language: The Alaska State Legislature urges the governor to prohibit the use of state personnel and resources to assist the NSA in its collection of mass data on Alaskans without specific search warrant. 1:22:29 PM MS. CONWAY said the resolution is a reflection of growing negative public sentiment toward the NSA's aggressive collection of data. She said everyone is aware of "the whistleblower situation and the uprising against the NSA's collections of data." In December, 2013, Judge Leon said, "I cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely such a program infringes on that degree of privacy that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment." 1:23:41 PM MS. CONWAY said the NSA was founded in 1952, and it focused on overseas surveillance but has morphed into something quite different. She said the activities are in violation of the Constitution and strip Alaskans and Americans of their liberty. [SJR 22] urges the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to declassify past opinions and urges future opinions to be released to the public, she stated. The resolution finds NSA's activities to be a troubling example of federal overreach, she added, and there is a packet with various articles. She said she believes that the President made an announcement a few weeks ago that he was going to propose a lot of changes, and those are being deliberated in Congress right now. 1:24:53 PM REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG noted a technical change on line 20, page 4, which should say "and the Constitution of the State of Alaska." Additionally, since these are activities of the NSA, "I believe that is under the jurisdiction of the Senate Intelligence Committee ... and if so, you might want to have copies sent to the chair of that committee and the ranking minority member." He suggested those as conceptual amendments. 1:26:47 PM REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG offered Conceptual Amendment 1, as follows: Page 4, line 20, will read "the Constitution of the State of Alaska. Recipients of the resolution will include the chairs and ranking members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate Intelligence Committees. 1:27:14 PM CHAIR KELLER, hearing no objection, announced the adoption of Conceptual Amendment 1. REPRESENTATIVE LYNN moved to report SJR 22 am, as amended, out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal notes. Hearing no objections, HCS SJR 22(JUD) passed out of the House Judiciary Standing Committee. The committee took an at-ease from 1:28 p.m. to 1:28 p.m. 1:28:41 PM