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Prime Sponsor of the following Legislation

HB 56: An Act relating to commercial fisheries limited entry buy-back program.
HB 88: An Act relating to ferries and ferry terminals, establishing the Alaska Marine Highway Authority, and relating to maintenance of state marine vessels; and providing for an effective data.
HB 121: An Act relating to A.W. Brindle memorial scholarship loans; and providing for an effective date.
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HB 182: An Act relating to the qualifications of the state forester.
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HB 198: An Act relating to regional dive fishery development associations and to dive fishery management assessments; and providing for an effective date.
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HB 263: An Act repealing the exemption from the motor fuel tax for fuel that is at least 10 percent alcohol by volume, and establishing a motor fuel tax exemption for motor fuel that is produced from the processing of lignocellulose, that is at least 10 percent alcohol by volume, and that is produced during the first five years of a facility's processing of lignocellulose from wood; and providing for an effective date.
HB 299: An Act reducing excise tax rates for pipe tobacco and certain cigars, cheroots, and stogies.
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HB 394: An Act relating to seafood processing permits for direct-market fishing operations and to the release of certain information collected by the Department of Fish and Game to the Department of Environmental Conservation.
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HJR 24: Relating to challenging the environmental and economic integrity of Alaska timber as Christmas decor for the United States Capitol.
HJR 49: Relating to opposition to a moratorium on the building of roads in the roadless areas of national forests.
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Co-Sponsored Legislation

HB 2: Allowing, for the purposes of permanent fund divident eligibility, an individual to accompany, as the spouse or minor or disabled dependent, another eligible resident who is absent for any of the following reasons: vocational, professional, or other specific education for which a comparable program is not reasonably available in the state; secondary or postsecondary education; military service; medical treatment; service in the Congress or in the peace corps; to care for the individual's terminally ill parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; for up to 220 days to settle the estate of the individuals's deceased parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; to care for a parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild with a critical life-threatening illness whose treatment plan, as recommended by the attending physician, requires travel outside of the state for treatment at a medical speciality complex; or other reasons that the commissioner of revenue may establish by regulation; requiring for the purposes of permanent fund dividend eligibility, a state resident to have the intent to remain indefinitely; relating to the eligibility for 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 permanent fund dividends of certain spouses and dependents of eligible applicants.
HB 51: An Act relating to the Department of Environmental Conservation.
HB 206: An Act relating to credit under the Public Employees' Retirement System for service as a village public safety officer.
HB 373: An Act relating to forests and forestry practices.
HCR 1: Relating to a new Alaska liquefied natural gas project.
HJR 51: Relating to support for H.R. 2924, which allows certain Alaska Native Vietnam veterans and the Elim Native Corporation to select land under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
HJR 52: Relating to opposition to the designation of any rivers in Alaska as American Heritage Rivers under the American Heritage Rivers initiative.
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 54: Relating to establishing maritime boundaries with Canada.
HJR 56: Relating to yttrium mining and transfer of the linear induction motor research vehicle to Alaska.
SB 192: An Act relating to maintenance of state marine vessels; and providing for an effective date.
SB 211: An Act renaming the Gravina Veterans' Memorial Bridge as the Ralph M. Bartholomew Veterans' Memorial Bridge.
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.
SJR 40: Relating to the fisheries management fee proposed by President Clinton.

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