SENATE BILL NO. 198                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act relating to a study of the effectiveness and                                                                       
     cost of providing long-acting reversible contraception                                                                     
     to women with substance abuse disorders."                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
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HEATHER CARPENTER,  STAFF, SENATOR KELLY, stated  the intent                                                                    
of the  bill. She shared  that the bill was  specifically an                                                                    
outcome  of the  bill sponsor's  efforts to  eradicate fetal                                                                    
alcohol  spectrum disorder  (FASD), and  would also  address                                                                    
the  population that  was  affected  by neonatal  abstinence                                                                    
syndrome (NAS).  She stated  that it  would be  a three-year                                                                    
study conduced by the University  of Alaska Anchorage Center                                                                    
for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair Bishop addressed the fiscal note.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair MacKinnon  announced that the fiscal  note would be                                                                    
forthcoming.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
MOVED  to  REPORT  SB 198  from  committee  with  individual                                                                    
recommendation  and attached  fiscal  note.  There being  NO                                                                    
OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SB  198 was  REPORTED  out  of committee  with  a "do  pass"                                                                    
recommendation and with one new  fiscal impact note from the                                                                    
University of Alaska.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
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AT EASE                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
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RECONVENED