SJR 18-EXXON VALDEZ DAMAGE CLAIMS                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Number 0110                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CHAIRMAN WHITAKER  announced the first  item of business  would be                                                              
CS  FOR SENATE  JOINT  RESOLUTION  NO. 18(RLS),  requesting  Exxon                                                              
Corporation to  pay claimants for court-ordered  damages resulting                                                              
from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
[The  resolution had  been  amended in  the  present committee  on                                                              
February 24, 2000,  followed by a 3-2 vote in favor  of moving the                                                              
amended  resolution from  committee.  However,  because there  are                                                              
nine committee  members, that  vote was  insufficient to  move the                                                              
resolution from committee.]                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE KEMPLEN  moved to rescind the  committee's previous                                                              
action  on  failing to  move  HCS  CSSJR 18(O&G)  from  committee.                                                              
There being no objection, it was so ordered.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Number 0195                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CHAIRMAN  WHITAKER declared  that the  main motion  to report  HCS                                                              
CSSJR 18(O&G)  out of  committee was  again before the  committee.                                                              
He asked if there were any objections.                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE PORTER objected.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Upon a roll call vote, Representatives  Phillips, Harris, Kemplen,                                                              
Smalley and Whitaker  voted in favor of moving  the resolution out                                                              
of   committee;   Representative    Porter   voted   against   it.                                                              
(Representative  Dyson abstained.)   Therefore, HCS  CSSJR 18(O&G)                                                              
was moved  from the House  Special Committee on  Oil and Gas  by a                                                              
vote of 5-1.