HOUSE COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS                                                                              
                       STANDING COMMITTEE                                                                                       
                        February 24, 2000                                                                                       
                            9:25 a.m.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS PRESENT                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Representative John Harris, Co-Chairman                                                                                         
Representative Carl Morgan, Co-Chairman                                                                                         
Representative Andrew Halcro                                                                                                    
Representative Lisa Murkowski                                                                                                   
Representative Fred Dyson                                                                                                       
Representative Reggie Joule                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS ABSENT                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Representative Albert Kookesh                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE CALENDAR                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
HOUSE BILL NO. 255                                                                                                              
"An Act relating to villages; and providing for an effective                                                                    
date."                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
     - ANNOUNCED THERE IS NOW A POSITIVE FISCAL NOTE                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
PREVIOUS ACTION                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
BILL: HB 255                                                                                                                  
SHORT TITLE: HOME RULE VILLAGES                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Jrn-Date    Jrn-Page           Action                                                                                           
 1/10/00      1886     (H)  PREFILE RELEASED 12/30/99                                                                           
 1/10/00      1886     (H)  READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS                                                                     
 1/10/00      1886     (H)  CRA, FIN                                                                                            
 2/17/00               (H)  CRA AT  8:00 AM CAPITOL 124                                                                         
 2/17/00               (H)  Heard & Held                                                                                        
 2/17/00              (H)  MINUTE(CRA)                                                                                          
 2/18/00      2239     (H)  COSPONSOR(S): HARRIS                                                                                
 2/21/00               (H)  CRA AT 10:30 AM CAPITOL 106                                                                         
 2/21/00               (H)  <Subcommittee meeting>                                                                              
 2/22/00               (H)  CRA AT  8:00 AM CAPITOL 124                                                                         
 2/22/00               (H)  Moved CSHB 255(CRA) Out of Committee                                                                
 2/22/00               (H)  MINUTE(CRA)                                                                                         
 2/23/00      2288     (H)  COSPONSOR(S): KOOKESH, MURKOWSKI,                                                                   
 2/24/00      2288     (H)  MORGAN                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
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CO-CHAIRMAN  HARRIS  called  the   House  Community  and  Regional                                                              
Affairs    Standing  Committee  meeting  to  order  at  9:25  a.m.                                                              
Members present at the call to order  were Representatives Harris,                                                              
Morgan,  Halcro,  Murkowski,  Dyson  and  Joule.    Representative                                                              
Kookesh was not in attendance.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
HB 255-HOME RULE VILLAGES                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Number 0054                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIRMAN HARRIS  made an announcement regarding  HOUSE BILL NO.                                                              
255, "An Act relating to villages;  and providing for an effective                                                              
date."  On  February 22, 2000,  CSHB 255(CRA) had been  moved from                                                              
the House  Community and  Regional Affairs  Committee with  a zero                                                              
fiscal note.  Now,  however, the bill has picked  up a fiscal note                                                              
of  $2,800.   Although the  committee  could bring  the bill  back                                                              
before them  and take  action, he  felt that  with the new  fiscal                                                              
note,  the  bill  would  now receive  a  House  Finance  Committee                                                              
referral.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
[There  were  no  further  comments, and  the  committee  took  no                                                              
action.]                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIRMAN HARRIS announced that  HB 342 would not be heard today                                                              
since it is a work in progress.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
ADJOURNMENT                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
There being  no further business  before the committee,  the House                                                              
Community  and Regional  Affairs  Standing  Committee meeting  was                                                              
adjourned at 9:26 a.m.