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For Immediate Release: January 19, 2000
Contact: Representative Andrew Halcro, at (907) 465-4939.
Amend Uniform Rule 20 - Standing Committees
Last session legislation passed that combined the Department of Community and Regional Affairs and the Department of Commerce and Economic Development into the Department of Community and Economic Development. Because of this change and changes to the titles of other state departments, Uniform Rule 20, which addresses House and Senate Committee jurisdictions does not conform to actual department titles.
HCR 16 will alter the Uniform Rules by changing the name of the Department of Education to the Department of Education and Early Development, changing the name of the Department of Labor to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
Additionally, it provides the Committee on Community and Regional Affairs will have jurisdiction over the programs and activities of the Department of Community and Economic Development that primarily relate to local government and government services or functions in the unorganized borough and other matters relating to political subdivisions.
These technical corrections to the Uniform Rules are necessary to make them parallel the names of the reorganized state departments.