CHAIRMAN BILL WILLIAMS announced that the committee had                      
  heard HB 213 at its previous meeting, on Monday, March 22.                   
  He said that the requested amendments on that bill were                      
  still pending and the bill would not be heard again at this                  
  meeting.  On the agenda for the meeting, he said, were HB                    
  232 and HB 238.  He noted that the meeting was being held by                 
  teleconference, with sites in Anchorage, Fairbanks,                          
  Glennallen, Haines, Kodiak, Seward, Ketchikan, Sitka,                        
  Valdez, Cordova, Whittier, Seldovia, and Kenai/Soldotna.  He                 
  opened the meeting to testimony on HB 232.                                   
                                                                               
  ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                
                                                                               
  CHAIRMAN WILLIAMS announced that legal opinions had been                     
  requested on HB 201, the Mental Health Lands Trust                           
  Settlement amendment bill, from the Attorney General (AG) as                 
  well as from the attorneys for the settling plaintiffs.  The                 
  letter from the AG, he said, would be distributed to                         
  committee members for their review.  He announced the                        
  Resources Committee would next meet at 8:00 a.m. on Friday,                  
  March 26, to hear a briefing by the Water Resources Advisory                 
  Board and to consider HB 140 and HCR 9.  If amendments were                  
  ready, he told committee members that they might also take                   
  up HB 213, previously heard on March 22nd.                                   
                                                                               
  ADJOURNMENT                                                                  
                                                                               
  There being no further business to come before the House                     
  Resources Committee, Chairman Williams adjourned the meeting                 
  at 9:55 a.m.