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Prime Sponsor of the following Legislation

SB 84: Passed! Chapter 9 SLA 97 : An Act relating to fiscal management of endowment assets of the University of Alaska; amending the definition of "university receipts" to include distribution from university endowments and the total return from the University of Alaska's endowment trust fund for land obtained under the Act of Congress of January 21, 1929, as amended, and transferring responsibility for management and investment of those assets; and making technical amendments to provisions relating to federal grants and appropriations from federal land grant college fund sources that must be paid to the state.
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SB 164: Passed! Chapter 84 SLA 97 : An Act relating to the authority of an emergency medical technician at the scene of an accident or emergency.
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SB 187: Passed! Chapter 102 SLA 97 : An Act relating to disclosure of public records identifying a participant in the advance college tuition payment program; relating to the composition and assets of the Alaska advance college tuition payment fund; relating to administration of the advance college tuition payment program; relating to advance college tuition payment contracts; and providing for an effective date.
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SB 312 : An Act relating to animals, to food, to pest control, and to the Alaska Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; and providing for an effective date.
SCR 10: Passed! Legis Resolve 35 : Supporting continued use of Alaska's renewable furbearer resources.
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SJR 25: Passed! Legis Resolve 26 : Supporting enhancement of visitor access to Denali National Park and Preserve through development of a northern railroad route corridor access to the vicinity of Wonder Lake.
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Co-Sponsored Legislation

HB 7: Authorizing establishment of community dispute resolution centers to foster the resolution of disputes between juvenile offenders and their victims.
HB 16: Relating to delinquent minors, to the taking of action based on the alleged criminal misconduct of ceratin minors, to the services to be provided to the victims of criminal misconduct of minors, and to agency records involving minors alleged to be delinquent based on their criminal misconduct; and amending Rule 19 and repealing Rules 6, 7, 11(a), 12(a), and 21(f), Alaska Delinquency Rules.
SB 36: An Act relating to transportation of public school students; relating to school construction grants; relating to the public school foundation program and to local aid for education; and providing for an effective date.
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HB 45: Passed! Chapter 8 SLA 97: Relating to runaway and missing minors, and providing for an effective date.
HB 46: Passed! Chapter 56 SLA 97: Relating to mining, and providing for an effective date.
HB 170 : An Act relating to interference with the rights of physically and mentally challenged persons; and relating to service animals during their pre-training and training period.
HB 303: An Act extending the termination date of the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault; and providing for an effective date.
HB 334: An Act relating to wavier of tuition and fees for certain family members of a police officer killed in the line of duty; and providing for an effective date.
HB 347: An Act relating to an exemption from overtime wage requirements for certain motor vehicle mechanics.
HB 349: An Act prohibiting the use of the title 'social worker' without a license; relating to social workers, licensure of social workers, and the Board of Clinical Social Work Examiners; and providing for an effective date.
HB 356: An Act establishing the Joint Committee on Military Bases in Alaska; and providing for an effective date.
HB 387: An Act relating to dentists.
HB 451: An Act relating to assistive technology devices and mobility aids for physically disabled persons.
HCR 1: Passed! Legis Resolve 2 : Relating to a new Alaska Liquefied natural gas project.
HCR 18: Passed! Legis Resolve 32: Declaring 1997 to be observed as the 80th Anniversery of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and recognizing the vital role played by the Univerisity of Alaska Fairbanks.
HJR 16: Passed! Legis Resolve 20: Relating to a federal balanced budget amendment.
HJR 29: Supporting an increase in federal funding for prostate cancer research.
HJR 49: Relating to opposition to a moratorium on the building of roads in the roadless areas of national forests.
HJR 53: Relating to support for federal legislation providing for the continuation of the University of Alaska by the conveyance of federal land to the university.
HJR 56: Relating to yttrium mining and transfer of the linear induction motor research vehicle to Alaska.
SB 36: An Act relating to transportation of public school students; relating to school construction grants; relating to the public school foundation program and to local aid for education; and providing for an effective date.
SB 70: Passed! Chapter 89 SLA 97: An Act defining the offenses of unlawful discharge of a firearm; and relating to the commission of those offenses by minors.
SB 76: An Act relating to long-term plans of certain state agencies and recommendations regarding elimination of duplication in state agency functions.
SB 94: An Act relating to designating flunitrazepam as a schedule IVA controlled substance; and providing for an effective date.
SB 117: An Act relating to an infant care curriculum in the public school system.
SB 161: An Act relating to management of certain municipal assets by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.
SB 159: An Act relating to the new business incentive program.
SB 175: Passed! Chapter 103 SLA 97: An Act relating to revenue bonds issued by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for interties between Healy and Fairbanks and between Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula; and providing for an effective date.
SB 180: An Act relating to state rights-of-way.
SB 216: An Act providing for the civil commitment of sexually violent predators.
SB 219: An Act relating to establishing an office of crime victims' advocacy; and amending Rule 16, Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 9, Alaska Delinquency Rules, and Rule 501, Alaska Rules of Evidence.
SB 250: An Act relating to management of game and to the duties of the commissioner of fish and game.
SB 255: An Act establishing the Joint Committee on Military Bases in Alaska; and providing for an effective date.
SB 260: An Act requiring that the cost of contraceptives and related health care services be included in health insurance coverage.
SB 261: An Act relating to the Special Olympics World Winter Games to be held in Anchorage in the year 2001; establishing a reserve fund for the games; providing certain duties and authority for the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority regarding financing for those games; and providing for an effective date.
SB 265: An Act designating the moose as the state land mammal.
SB 304: An Act relating to regulation of highways and motor vehicles; and providing for an effective date.
SB 321: An Act relating to assisted living homes.
SCR 11: Creating the Long-Term Care Task Force.
SJR 7: Passed! Legis Resolve 7: Supporting continued funding of the Alaska National Guard Youth Corps Challenge Program.
SJR 9: Passed! Legis Resolve 3: Urging the United States Congress to pass legislation to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, to oil and gas exploration, development, and production.
SJR 22: Passed! Legis Resolve 15: Inviting the United States Department of Defense to select Alaska as the site to base and train military troops.
SJR 28: Requesting the federal government to conduct an audit of the Alaska Native regional corporations to determine their compliance with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and to review the accountability of the corporations to their shareholders.

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