HB  34-NAMING VIETNAM HELI. PILOTS' MEM. BRIDGE                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
1:38:01 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR TUCK  announced that the  final order of business  would be                                                               
HOUSE BILL NO. 34, "An  Act naming the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots'                                                               
Memorial Bridge."                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
1:38:18 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR TUCK opened public testimony  on HB 34.  After ascertaining                                                               
that there  was no one  who wished  to testify, he  closed public                                                               
testimony.                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
1:38:49 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN noted that when  he first came to Alaska in                                                               
1980, he met a helicopter  pilot named Gordon McDonald, who owned                                                               
a  business in  Circle called  Sunshine  Copters; he  had been  a                                                               
pilot in  Vietnam and, after all  the missions he flew  safely in                                                               
Vietnam,   he  was   ultimately  killed   by  a   caved-in  roof.                                                               
Representative  Claman  expressed  that  Gordon  McDonald  was  a                                                               
wonderful person, and any time  Vietnam-era helicopter pilots are                                                               
mentioned he thinks of him.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
1:39:51 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE TARR moved  to report HB 34 out  of committee with                                                               
individual  recommendations  and  the  accompanying  zero  fiscal                                                               
note.   There being no objection,  HB 34 was reported  out of the                                                               
House Special Committee on Military and Veterans' Affairs.