April

• Leman Says Court Decision Validates Parental Consent Bill, 04-01-97
  ^{= Loren Leman}
• Senate Passes Privatization Bill, SB 68 Creates Options for the Future; 04-02-97
  ^{= Jerry Ward}
• Senate Votes To Keep Alaska’s EMT and Fire Fighter Volunteers, Clarify Alaska Wage & Hour Act; 04-02-97
  ^{= Loren Leman}
• Legislature Seeks To Guarantee Access To Alaska Lands, 04-02-97
• Measure To Strengthen Family Trusts Becomes Law, Promotes Development of Financial Service Industry in Alaska, 04-02-97
  ^{= Al Vezey}
• Possession of Date Rape Drug Becomes Felony, 04-02-97
  ^{= Al Vezey}
• House Priorities Protected From Spending Reductions, 04-02-97
  ^{= Mark Hanley}
• Exemption From Federal Aviation Rule Sought For Rural Air Carriers, 04-03-97
  ^{= Ivan Ivan in english = Ivan Ivan in yupik}
• Senate Urges Completion of Tongass Land Management Plan, Alaskans Need Assurance to Ensure Southeast Jobs, 04-03-97
  ^{= Jerry Mackie}
• Senate Supports Anchorage Bid to Host the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games, 04-03-97
  ^{= Robin Taylor}
• Legislative Leaders Strongly Oppose Goshawk and Wolf Listing to Endangered Species List, 04-03-97
• Spending Priorities Intact Under Budget Passed By House, 04-04-97
  ^{= Mark Hanley = Gene Therriault}
• M eeting Notice: House Oil and Gas Committee To Evaluate DEC Enforcement Standards, 04-04-97
• Senate Votes To Expand Shuyak Island State Park, 04-04-97
  ^{= Jerry Mackie}
• Senate Votes To Preserve Alaska’s Family Farms, 04-04-97
  ^{= Lyda Green = Lyda Green}
• Senate Passes Supplemental Budget, 04-05-97
  ^{= Drue Pearce}
• Bill To Protect Domestic Violence Victims From Insurance Discrimination Passes Legislature, 04-07-97
  ^{= Dave Donley = Norman Rokeberg}
• Proposed Senate Operating Reductions Protect Education, Public Safety, Roads and Airports, 04-07-97
  ^{= Drue Pearce, part 1 = Drue Pearce, part 2}
• Friends of the Permanent Fund Endorse SJR 18, Let the People Protect the Permanent Fund; 04-08-97
  ^{= Lyda Green}
• Measure Seeks to Protect Alaska Fishermen from I.R.S. Permit Seizures, 04-08-97
  ^{= Ivan Ivan in english = Ivan Ivan in yupik}
• Measure to Stop Partial-Birth Abortions Set to Clear Senate, 04-09-97
  ^{= Pete Kott}
• The Alaska Regulation Reform Act Enhances Alaska’s Business Environment to Create Jobs for Alaskans, 04-09-97
  ^{= Dave Donley}
• Senate Asks Administration to Play by the Rules, Asks Governor to Submit a Complete Budget on December 15, 04-09-97
  ^{= Drue Pearce, part 1 = Drue Pearce, part 2}
• Senate Passes Bill to Make Education Assistance More Flexible for National Guard Members, 04-09-97
• House Announces New Special Committee on Telecommunications, 04-10-97
  ^{= Pete Kott}
• Halford Files Resolution Calling for Regional Corporation Audits, 04-10-97
  ^{= Rick Halford}
• Senate Passes Tobacco Tax Bill, Establishes Aggressive Anti-Tobacco Campaign, 04-10-97
• Senate Corrections Plan Addresses Alaska’s Prison Overcrowding, 04-10-97
  ^{= Jerry Ward, 164K = Jerry Ward, 172K = Drue Pearce, 216K = Eldon Mulder, 174K}
• Senate Adopts the Federal Standard to Limit Prisoner’s Rights in Alaska, 04-11-97
  ^{= Dave Donley}
• New Law Gives University Control of its Natural Resource Endowment Fund, 04-11-97
  ^{= Gary Wilken}
• Arizona Attorney General to Address Joint HESS Meeting, Helped Win Settlement with Liggett Group Tobacco Firm; 04-11-97
  ^{= Gary Wilken}
• Senate Agrees to Treat Minors Who Commit Multiple Violent Crimes with Deadly Weapons as Adults, 04-14-97
  ^{= Dave Donley}
• Senate Cracks Down On Reckless Firearm Behavior, 04-14-97
  ^{= Dave Donley, part 1 = Dave Donley, part 2}
• House Resolution Opposes Creation of New Subsistence Fishery for Halibut, Speaker To Testify Wednesday in Anchorage; 04-15-97
  ^{= Alan Austerman}
• Alaska Delegation Visits Sakhalin Russia To Promote Trade, 04-16-97
  ^{= Gail Phillips}
• Speaker Phillips Testifies Before Federal Fisheries Council, 04-16-97
  ^{= Gail Phillips}
• Measure Seeks to Curb Smoking Among Teens, Raises Legal Age to Possess Tobacco to 21, 04-17-97
• Part-Time Students to be Allowed in All Alaska Schools, 04-18-97
• Measure to Make Possession of Date Rape Drug a Felony Sent to Governor, 04-18-97
• Measure to Stop Partial-Birth Abortions Goes to Governor, 04-18-97
  ^{= Pete Kott}
• Juvenile Offenders Brought Before Public Eye, 04-18-97
  ^{= Pete Kelly}
• Senate Passes State Operating Budget To Reduce Spending, Senate Minority Proposed 36 Amendments to Fuel State Bureaucracy; 04-18-97
  ^{= Drue Pearce, part 1 = Drue Pearce, part 2}
• Legislature Votes to Require Parental Consent for Youth Abortions, Bill Moves to Governor; 04-18-97
  ^{= Loren Leman}
• House Passes Five Senate Reform Measures, 04-18-97
  ^{= Loren Leman}
• Tort Reform Passes!, 04-18-97
  ^{= Brian Porter = Gail Phillips}
• Legislation to Amend and Clarify Ethics Code Passes Senate, Raises Executive Standards to the Same Level as Legislature; 04-21-97
• Senate Votes to Safeguard Employee Rights by Modernizing Public Employment Relations Act, 04-21-97
• Legislative Leaders Name Senate and House Joint Conference Committee Members to Review the State Budget, 04-21-97
• Roadside Directional Signs on Private Property? The Governor's Double-Standard, 04-21-97
• Legislature Overrides Sign Bill Veto, Knowles Put Politics Over Good Public Policy, 04-21-97
• Legislature Transmits Reform Measures to Governor, Six Legislation Initiatives Promote Economic Development, 04-22-97
• House Seeks to Split Ninth Circuit Court, 04-22-97
• Measure Makes it Easier to Form a Political Party, 04-22-97
• Measure to Make it Easier to Form a Political Party Transmitted to Governor, 04-23-97
• Legislature Votes to Clarify Alaska Wage & Hour Act, Helps Maintain Alaska’s Volunteer EMTs and Fire Fighters, 04-23-97
• Legislature Asks Congress to Amend the Federal Clean Water Act, 04-24-97
• Legislature Calls for Completion of Tongass Land Management Plan, 04-24-97
• Alaska May Be Vulnerable to Future Ballistic Missile Attack, 04-24-97
• Abortion Legislation Withstands Legal Scrutiny, Bill Sponsors Criticize Department of Law Analysis, 04-24-97
• House Passes Measure to Ensure Part-Time Students Are Allowed in Alaska Schools, 04-25-97
• Hudson Seeks to Protect Alaska's Fishermen from IRS Permit Seizures, 04-28-97
  = Bill Hudson
• House Passes Measure Calling for Student Testing, 04-30-97
• Legislature Votes to Strengthen Victim’s Rights by Passing Halford’s "Truth in Sentencing" Act, 04-30-97
  = Rick Halford
• Legislators Criticize Veto of Parental Consent Bill, 04-30-97
  = Loren Leman
• Lawmakers Require More Information Regarding Misuse of State’s Confidential Computer System, Answers to be Presented to Joint Judiciary Hearing, 04-30-97
  = Mike Miller & Gail Phillips = Mike Miller
• Abortion Legislation Withstands Legal Scrutiny, Bill Sponsors Criticize Department of Law Analysis; 04-30-97
  = Pete Kott
• Legislature Seeks to Split Ninth Circuit Court, 04-30-97