Alaska 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Alaska House Bill HCR5 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/28/2025

                     
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 HOUSE CONCURRENT R ESOLUTION NO. 5 
 
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA 
 
THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION 
 
BY REPRESENTATIVE MEARS 
 
Introduced:  3/28/25 
Referred:   State Affairs 
 
 
A RESOLUTION 
 
Proposing an amendment to the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature relating 1 
to committee records; and providing for an effective date for the amendment. 2 
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 3 
   * Section 1. Rule 23(f), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, is amended to read: 4 
(f)  Each standing, special, and joint committee shall  5 
(1)  record its meetings electronically and prepare a log of the recording 6 
adequate to locate specific testimony; 7 
(2)  prepare minutes of each meeting of the committee on a standard 8 
form prescribed jointly by the Rules Committees of the house and the senate; the 9 
minutes shall include 10 
(A) a list of the names of each member present during the 11 
meeting; 12 
(B)  a list of the name and affiliation of each witness testifying 13 
before the committee; 14 
(C)  a brief statement of the position of the witness on the 15 
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(D) each amendment formally considered by the committee, 1 
the name of the member moving adoption of the amendment, the action taken 2 
on the amendment, and the yeas and nays if a committee member has 3 
requested a roll call vote on adoption of an amendment; 4 
(3)  maintain a chronological file of minutes, copies of which shall be 5 
made available upon request; 6 
(4) make available to the Legislative Affairs Agency a copy of all 7 
minutes of committee meetings during the session for entry of the minutes as a data 8 
base on the legislative computer system; 9 
(5)  at the end of the second session of each legislature, deliver to the 10 
legislative reference library  11 
(A)  an electronic record [A BINDER] that contains an index 12 
and copies of all minutes filed by date; 13 
(B) tapes of committee meetings and logs for those tapes 14 
prepared under (1) of this subsection; and 15 
(C)  an electronic record [A FILE] for each bill or subject 16 
considered by the committee that includes written testimony submitted to the 17 
committee, state agency position papers and memoranda, bill drafts considered 18 
by the committee, letters of intent adopted by the committee, and other 19 
materials of research value. 20 
   * Sec. 2. The amendment proposed by this resolution takes effect January 20, 2026. 21