SENATE COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE May 10, 1999 2:03 p.m. MEMBERS PRESENT Senator Tim Kelly, Chair Senator Randy Phillips Senator Lyman Hoffman MEMBERS ABSENT Senator Jerry Mackie, Vice Chair Senator Jerry Ward COMMITTEE CALENDAR HOUSE BILL NO. 155 "An Act relating to municipal assembly forms of representation and apportionment." -MOVED HB 155 OUT OF COMMITTEE PREVIOUS SENATE COMMITTEE ACTION HB 155 - No previous Senate action. WITNESS REGISTER Representative Hal Smalley Alaska State Capitol Juneau, AK 99801-1182 POSITION STATEMENT: Sponsor of HB 155 ACTION NARRATIVE TAPE 99-9, SIDE A Number 001 CHAIRMAN TIM KELLY called the Senate Community & Regional Affairs Committee meeting to order at 2:03 p.m. Present were Senator Phillips, Hoffman, and Kelly, Chair. HB 155 was before the committee. HB 155-MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY APPORTIONMENT REPRESENTATIVE HAL SMALLEY, sponsor of HB 155, gave the following explanation of the measure. Last February the Kenai Peninsula Borough clerk asked him to sponsor legislation which would change the date that a municipal assembly is required to present its reapportionment plan to the voters. Currently, AS 29.20.080 requires an assembly to determine whether its existing apportionment meets the state's standards not later than two months after the official report of the federal decennial census. If it is determined that the existing apportionment fails to meet that standard as set forth in statute, the assembly must then adopt an ordinance providing for reapportionment, and present the reapportionment plan to the voters within six months of its determination. SENATOR PHILLIPS moved HB 155 to its next committee of referral, the Senate State Affairs Committee. There being no objection, the motion carried. There being no further business to come before the committee, CHAIRMAN KELLY adjourned the meeting at 2:07 p.m.