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Sponsor Statement for SB 279
Sport Fishing Licenses for 9/11 Responders

"An Act authorizing the commissioner of fish and game to issue complimentary sport fishing licenses and tags to September 11 emergency responders and their spouses; and providing for an effective date."

On September 11th, the United States experienced terrorist attacks within its borders. These attacks were not only on the United States, but on the entire civilized world; citizens of more than 80 countries perished.

Senate Bill 279 authorizes the Commissioner of Fish and Game to issue up to 250 complimentary sport fishing licenses and salmon tags, as appropriate, per year to firemen, police, and EMTs who responded to the events on September 11th, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and their spouses. This section would sunset on December 31st, 2003.

This bill would be a small gift that the State of Alaska could make to those brave men and women who served the world so admirably in the shadow of these horrible events.

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