SENATE BILL NO. 194                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act creating the Alaska Tourism Marketing Board                                                                        
     and relating to tourism marketing."                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
9:13:09 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair Fairclough MOVED to  ADOPT the proposed committee                                                                    
substitute  for  SB  194, WORK  DRAFT  28-LS1497\P  (Martin,                                                                    
3/21/14) as  a working  document. There being  NO OBJECTION,                                                                    
it was so ordered.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
9:13:35 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHRISTINE MARASIGAN,  STAFF SENATOR KEVIN MEYER,  changes in                                                                    
the  latest version  had generated  from previous  committee                                                                    
discussion  of the  legislation.  Language in  the bill  had                                                                    
been changed pertaining to  the Statewide Non-Profit Tourism                                                                    
Association, as well  as the issue of  encouraging the board                                                                    
to meet  electronically. Changes  had been  made in  the way                                                                    
the quorum was  defined; regionalism had been  brought up in                                                                    
discussions and so a list of  all regions could not be found                                                                    
on Page  3 of the bill.  The sunset date had  been addressed                                                                    
on Page 4, Line 11; however, a typo had been made.                                                                              
9:14:53 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Meyer  noted that the  typo would be  corrected. He                                                                    
queried whether Ms.  Marasigan had been in  contact with the                                                                    
bill sponsor.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Ms. Marasigan replied in the affirmative.                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
9:15:30 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair   Fairclough   MOVED   to  ADOPT   a   conceptual                                                                    
amendment:                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
     Page 4                                                                                                                     
     Line 11                                                                                                                    
     After "June 30,"                                                                                                           
     Delete "2014"                                                                                                              
     Insert "2018"                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
There  being  NO  OBJECTION, the  conceptual  amendment  was                                                                    
ADOPTED.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
9:16:13 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Meyer inquired  if the fiscal note  attached to the                                                                    
bill was zero.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Ms.  Marasigan replied  in the  affirmative. She  added that                                                                    
the funds  to support  the operation of  the board  would be                                                                    
taken from funds  that had already been  appropriated to the                                                                    
Department of  Commerce, Community and  Economic Development                                                                    
budget.                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
9:17:06 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair  Fairclough  MOVED  to REPORT  CSSB  194(FIN)  as                                                                    
amended  out of  committee  with individual  recommendations                                                                    
and the accompanying fiscal notes.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
9:17:19 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CSSB 194(FIN) was REPORTED out  of committee as amended with                                                                    
a "do pass"  recommendation and with a new  zero fiscal note                                                                    
from  the Senate  Finance Committee  for  the Department  of                                                                    
Commerce, Community and Economic Development.                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
9:17:49 AM                                                                                                                    
AT EASE                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
9:19:46 AM                                                                                                                    
RECONVENED