SB 122-VICTIM DEFINITION                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
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CHAIR CLAMAN announced  that the only order of  business would be                                                               
SENATE  BILL NO.  122,  "An  Act relating  to  the definition  of                                                               
'victim.'"                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
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}SENATOR  LORA   REINBOLD*  Alaska  State   Legislature*  Juneau,                                                               
Alaska* As  prime sponsor, presented  SB 122.{ as  prime sponsor,                                                               
presented SB 122.  She explained  that her office had reached out                                                               
to the Office  of Victims' Rights and had learned  that a defense                                                               
attorney [successfully]  argued in court that  two teenagers were                                                               
not  victims of  the crime  during  which their  mother had  been                                                               
slain  by her  husband  and  that the  children  had been  denied                                                               
[court] proceedings.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
2:56:18 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR CLAMAN opened public testimony on SB122 and after                                                                         
ascertaining that no one wished to testify, he closed public                                                                    
testimony.                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE KREISS-TOMKINS stated his support for SB 122.                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR CLAMAN announced that SB 122 was held over.