Alaska Legislature: House Floor Session, 3/27/26, 10:30am

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Please come to order.

Will members please indicate their presence by voting.

Will the clerk please tally the board.

Thirty nine members present with 39.

With 39, will the clerk please. The clerk has tallied the board with 39 members present. We have a quorum present to conduct business. Mr.

Majority Leader.

Mr. Speaker, may the journal please reflect that Representative Jimmy has previously been excused from a call of the House today.

Leading the invocation this morning is Nathaniel Haberger,

Associate Pastor of the Juneau Christian Center.

Will members please rise?

With deepest respect for the religious beliefs of each person here,

I invite you to join me as we open in prayer.

Dear God,

I believe that you are the one above it all and over it all.

You are omniscient,

omnipotent, and omnipresent,

which is to say that there is nothing you cannot do and there is nothing you are not aware of.

Yet, even if with the celestial knowledge and might, Scripture reveals a God who delights in being with his creation.

I humbly ask that you be with us today.

Specifically, for each of these representatives today,

be with them. Give them grace,

wisdom,

and discernment today.

Give them supernatural productivity in all that they put their efforts to.

God, I pray for loose ends and unfinished business to come into alignment,

for stress to be managed,

and for each representative to operate from a place of rest,

not anxiety or restlessness.

I ask that you give them your peace today,

independent of current circumstances or situations.

Give them peace today.

And as a pastor,

as a follower of Christ,

I bless each of these representatives here today.

In Jesus'

name I pray.

Amen.

Representative Deibert, will you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

and to the republic for which it stands,

one nation,

under God,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Representative Story,

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker.

I move and ask unanimous consent that the prayer be spread across the journal.

seeing no objection,

No objection. The prayer will be spread across the journal.

Will the clerk please certify the journal for the previous legislative days?

I certify as to the correctness of the journal for the 65th and 66th legislative days.

Mr.

Majority Leader?

Mr. Speaker,

I move and ask unanimous consent that the journal of the previous days be approved as certified by the chief clerk.

Hearing no objection,

the journal stands approved.

Are there guests for introduction this morning?

Representative St. Clair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I request permission to briefly look at my notes.

Please.

Or not so much.

Mr.

Speaker, today I have the great honor to introduce a guest today whom I'm poaching from District 9. Sorry.

If Mr.

Joe Kim would stand up.

Would stand up Joe?

Joe lives in Anchorage. He's the president of the Faylix Academy since 2016,

where he provides essential de-escalation, firearm security,

and consultation training and services to responsible and armed citizens,

numerous law enforcement agencies,

and security teams, including those entrusted here with the Capitol. He's down here this weekend.

There's some of us that are doing some training,

some tactical shooting training.

I've known Joe for a couple of years now.

I've done training with him. I've done close quarters battle for those that know what it is and stack training.

I want to thank him and his team for all they've done for the community.

And if you would please stand and join me in welcoming Joe to the House Chamber.

Representative Galvin.

Thank you. Mr.

Speaker,

I'm pleased to introduce my staff.

His name is David Chang,

and David returns to my office this year for the second year,

the second session as legislative staff.

And in his role, he assists me with two different subcommittees and has organized all of the work within the...

finance as well.

He loves the opportunity to dig deep into this fiscal policy and support efforts that move the state of Alaska forward.

And outside of the Capitol,

David loves a lot of different things, including cooking and music, and he also is getting out on the pickleball court,

and he's learning something new this year, which is scuba diving in the cold waters.

So I really am excited to have him join our community.

and I'd like us to please welcome him again thank you

Representative Elam.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker. I may use my notes. And so I'd like to direct the attention to a friend of mine in the in the Paratovich

Paratovich gallery.

Eric Downs is a friend of mine from home, and he's also a lifelong Alaskan here based on the Kenai Peninsula. His background is construction,

which led him to start downstream construction or consulting,

where he works to develop or with developers and private clients to bring projects to life.

Having lived in the Kenai his whole life, Eric's heard,

like many of us, about the AK LNG project for years and he's glad to see the recent progress and appreciates the conversations he's had while he's been here.

He's also excited about what the project can mean to the Kenai Peninsula and also to Alaska.

Eric is also a filmmaker focused on telling stories that inspire people and capture the rich history of Alaska.

If you would, please help me in welcoming Eric.

Mr. Majority Leader.

Mr.

Good morning, Mr.

Speaker.

In deference to the generous and honorable representative from District 7,

he's allowing me to introduce a family member and her students behind me.

Mr. Speaker,

behind me in the Pratchett-Rich Gallery,

I'm very proud to introduce my niece,

Donika Nash,

who is a teacher at River City Academy in Soldotna. She is accompanied by six of her students and her husband,

Shay Nash,

who is a principal at the school.

Couples can work together.

Isn't this great, Mr. Speaker?

Mm-hmm.

Donika received a grant to bring some of her high school history and government students to visit Juneau to celebrate America's 250th celebration and witness democracy in action.

Unfortunately,

Mr. Speaker, just before coming down here, they received the difficult news that their school is on the borough school closure list.

So this trip now doubles as a unique opportunity to see how democracy works and also time to make connections with each other before their future pathways diverge. In attendance today is Shay Nash next to Donica,

and if you would all rise behind me,

Shay and Donica,

English history teacher Donica Nash and their students Carmen Olson,

Willow High Desert Wolf,

Marley O'Regan,

Aaron Smithwick,

Anson Clark and Michael Mina.

I ask the members to join me in giving them a warm welcome to Juneau.

Representative Colomb.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker.

So...

I have some special guests in the Taylor Gallery and poaching from District twenty six. This is my um my son, my oldest son's family is here to visit in Juneau. So if they could please stand.

Carl is a lifelong Alaskan resident.

He's a 16-year Air Force vet,

currently serving in the Air National Guard.

He's a graduate of UAA's aviation maintenance program.

He is a full-time A&P mechanic for FedEx at Ted Stevens.

Just started there first month. He got employee of the month.

Sorry,

I had to say that.

It wasn't in the script.

In his free time he enjoys coaching his son's wrestling and baseball teams and teaching his kids to hunt and fish.

Laura, my amazing daughter-in-law, is also a lifelong Alaskan who grew up in Willow. She's a graduate of the UAA nursing program. She currently works as an RN in the Providence NICU.

She's a homeschool teacher,

a sports chauffeur, and in her free time she enjoys fishing and starting projects,

then going fishing to avoid finishing the projects.

So we have a lot of UAA grads in our family. I'm a UAA graduate.

a grad as well.

Elora's going to be here advocating for the Nurse Compact, which is getting a hearing in Senate Labor and Commerce.

And then my grandchildren.

Evelyn is 11 years old. She loves gymnastics,

playing piano,

reading Lord of the Rings and participating in the choir at church.

And Ian is eight years old and loves wrestling,

reptiles, playing guitar,

reading Wings of Fire,

and he also aspires to be an astronaut when he grows up.

So it's so awesome to have my family. It's the first time I've had family members actually here on floor session day.

And they're very important to me.

Carl and Laura are amazing parents and just I would love for you guys to give them a warm welcome to Juno.

Representative Nelson.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Continuing on the topic of poaching other individuals,

I'm poaching one from the representative from District 6 today,

but behind me in the Taylor Gallery is Brian Covey, if he would stand up.

There we go.

Brian is a lifelong resident,

was born and raised on a homestead in Anilchik, and he currently works for Hill Corp as a natural gas compressor mechanic in Anilchik gas field keeping gas flowing to South Central Alaska homes.

And he is married to Catherine who works in my office and he's down here to celebrate her birthday.

So it's great to have them both here and I ask you to help me welcome them to the house.

Representative Schragi.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker. I'm honoured to have a constituent with us here in Juneau today in the Peratrovich Gallery.

If Lisa Oleksyk could please stand up, wonderful. Alisa's a very active member of our community,

a mom of two young adults,

a psychiatric physician assistant and former community health practitioner in rural Alaska who's provided health care in various southwest villages. And I'd note that she's here really because there's going to be an important hearing tomorrow on daylight savings time. And she's here to

to advocate for HB 229 to end daylight savings times without a time zone change. So if you have any questions,

please feel free to stop her in the hallway and ask. She's a wealth of information on this topic,

and I'm just honored to have her here in Juneau to watch us all do some work here today.

If you could please help me welcome her.

Representative Ruffridge.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker.

Well, I have the honour of introducing our guest page today who had a brief introduction with the member from District 10. She is here with the River City Academy. If Willow, high desert wolf,

could please come to the centre.

Willow lives in Soldotna and is a sophomore at River City Academy. She is very excited to be viewing our session today because she is deeply invested in political and societal issues.

and may choose to go down a career path in government someday.

Willow also participates in and volunteers in SILC or SOAP programs for the statewide independent living council and she is here to advocate for that and meet most of you.

We had a great session this morning talking about what government is like.

They have great questions and happy to report that they voluntarily started a student government inside River City Academy.

me. So guaranteed they are all better students than probably most of us were in high school. And the the future is bright Mr Speaker. Please help us welcome Lord.

Not seeing any additional mics raised. Sometimes it's hard to

Take out all the microphones.

Madam Clerk are there any messages from the Governor?

I have no messages from the governor this morning, Mr.

Speaker.

Are there any messages from the other body?

Messages dated March 25 stating the Senate concurred in the House Amendments to Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 64,

Finance Amended,

thus adopting House Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No.

64,

Finance Amended, House Elections, and the Senate adopted the report of the Conference Committee with limited powers of free conference considering Senate Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 289, Finance Amended.

amended Senate, and committee substitute for House Bill number 289, finance,

budget reserve, supermajority failed,

appropriations supplemental,

thus adopting conference committee substitute for House Bill number 289. I have no further messages from the other body.

Are there any communications?

Department of Health,

Division of Public Health,

Alaska Education and Prevention Program,

FY 2025 Annual Report,

Alaska Energy Authority 2025 Annual Report, and Power Cost Equalization Program Statistical Report FY 2025.

I have no further communications.

Are there any reports of standing committees?

The House Education Committee held a hearing on the following appointee to the Professional Teaching Practice Commission: Michael Robbins. Signing the report,

Representatives Eishide, Underwood, Elam,

Schwanke,

Deivert, and co-chairs Himshoot and Story.

The Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the following appointee to the state commission for human rights,

Mary Grace Salazar. Signing the report, representatives Underwood, Vance, Costello,

Mina,

Copp, and Chair Grey.

The Education Committee considered House Joint Resolution number forty five, supports special education funding, attached one new zero fiscal note. Signing the report do pass, representatives Schwanke, Deibert, Elam, Underwood, Eishide, and co-chairs Hemscheid and Story. The resolution has no further referral.

The Finance Committee considered House Bill 21,

voter preregistration for minors, recommends it be replaced with committee substitute for House Bill 21,

state affairs with the same title.

Attached one, excuse me, two new fiscal notes.

Signing the report, do pass,

Representatives Jimmy,

Galvin, and co-chairs Josephson, Foster,

and Schrage.

Do not pass, Allard. No recommendation,

Bynum, Moore.

staff Hannon and Tomaszewski.

The bill has no further referral.

The Judiciary Committee considered House Bill 136, Railroad Utility Corridors, recommends it be replaced with committee substitute for House Bill 136, transportation with the same title,

attached one new zero fiscal note. Signing the report, do pass, representatives Vance, Costello, Copp.

No recommendation. I. Scheid, Mina, and Chair Gray. The bill has no further referral.

The Finance Committee considered House Bill 280,

Apportioned Taxable Income Digital Business.

Recommends it be replaced with Committee Substitute for House Bill 280,

Finance,

with the new title,

attached one new fiscal note. Signing the report,

do pass.

Representatives Jimmy,

Galvin, Hannan, and co-chairs Foster and Schragi do not pass Allard. No recommendation. Bynum,

Tomaszewski, Amend,

The bill has no further referral.

The Judiciary Committee considered House Bill 324,

Virtual Currency Kiosks, recommends it be replaced with committee substitute for House Bill 324 Judiciary with the same title,

attached one new zero fiscal note. Signing the report,

due pass,

Representatives Underwood, Aishide, Mina,

Kopp.

Amend Vance, Costello and Chair Gray. The bill has a further referral to the Labor and Commerce Committee, and I have no further reports of standing committees.

Madam Clerk, are there any reports of special committees?

There are no reports of special committees this morning.

Any citations or resolutions for introduction?

Honoring Alaska Council of School Administrators by Representatives Hannan, Story and Senator Keel.

Honoring Denali Montessori School's 75th anniversary by Representatives Galvin,

Fields,

Senator Gray Jackson.

In memoriam, Gordon E.

Evans by Representatives Hannan, Story,

Senator Keel.

Honoring Jesse Holmes by Representative Moore.

Honoring Colony Middle School Wrestling Team by Senator Yunt and Representative Moore.

Honoring the 2026 Iditarod top ten finishers by Senator Hoffman and Representative Jimmy.

I have no further citations or resolutions for introduction.

Mr. Majority Leader.

Mr.

Speaker,

I move and ask unanimous consent that notice and publication requirements be waived and the citations honoring Denali Montessori School's 75th anniversary honoring the Alaska Council of School Administrators and In Memoriam Gordon E.

Evans be made a special order of business.

Without objection,

Mr. Majority Leader?

Mr. Speaker, I move and ask unanimous consent that the House approve the citations.

Hearing no objection, the citations are approved.

Madam Clerk, are there any bills for introduction today?

I have no bills for introduction this morning.

This brings us to consideration of the daily calendar.

Madam Clerk, please read the first item on the calendar.

House bill number 243 by Representative Carrick by request,

entitled an act relating to the powers and duties of the board of barbers and hairdressers and the Department of Commerce,

Community and Economic Development,

and providing for an effective date. The Labor and Commerce Committee considered the bill,

attached one new zero fiscal note,

signing the report do pass Representatives Carrick,

Cologne,

Freyer,

Sadler, D.

Nelson and co-chairs Fields and Hall.

I have no committee substitutes.

Madam Clerk,

are there any amendments?

I have no amendments,

Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Majority Leader?

Mr. Speaker,

I move and ask unanimous consent that House Bill 243 be considered engrossed, advanced to third reading and placed on final passage.

Hearing no objection.

Madam Clerk,

please read the title for the third and final time.

House Bill No. 243 by Representative Carrick by request,

entitled An Act Relating to the Powers and Duties of the Board of Barbers and Hairdressers and the Department of Commerce,

Community and Economic Development and providing for an effective date.

Representative Carrick.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and good afternoon everyone. Uh permission to refer to my notes, Mr. Speaker.

Permission granted and I think it's still morning too.

Uh well, good morning, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Good morning.

We won't speed the day along any faster, but uh Mr. Speaker, I'm very happy to bring forward House Bill 243. F members will first of all notice that it's by request and it comes at request of the Board of Barbers and Hairdressers chair, Kevin McKinley, who lives in my district.

and who has been chair of this board for some time.

As many members already know,

the Board of Barbers and Hairdressers is responsible for all the aesthetics professions in Alaska.

This includes not only barbering and hairdressering but also hair braiding, manicuring,

body piercing,

tattooing, and other professions.

And Mr.

Speaker,

members will also notice that this bill has no fiscal impact and that is because we're simply codifying the...

the current standard practice where the board delegates its licensing responsibilities to the division.

In the House Labor and Commerce Committee,

the division testified in support of this legislation as again it codifies the current practice and it brings the barbers and hairdressers board in line with seven other boards that already delegate tasks to the division and that have the authority to do that. It says may not shall so the board could at any time

choose to utilize their power to do this themselves but currently they delegate because it is a very large number of professions regulated by the board and an all-volunteer board that does occasionally struggle to find members to serve and so this helps to streamline the licensing process for these professions in Alaska it is a measure of government efficiency to put this in statute and just ensure that these professionals can continue to get to work as

quickly and easily as possible while maintaining the board's authority to issue regulations and manage the profession.

And so I just ask for member support and happy to take any questions.

Is there discussion or debate?

Seeing none,

Seeing none.

I'm going to, any wrap-up comments,

Representative Kerrick?

Are you ready for the question? The question being, shall House Bill 243 pass the body?

Members may proceed to vote.

Will the clerk please lock the roll?

Does any member wish to change his or her vote?

Will the clerk please announce the vote?

Thirty-nine yeas, zero nays.

With a vote of 39 yeas to zero nays, House Bill 243 has passed the House.

Mr.

Majority Leader.

Mr.

Speaker,

I move and ask unanimous consent that the roll call vote on the passage of the bill be considered the roll call vote on the effective date clause.

Hearing no objection,

the effective date clause has been adopted.

Madam Clerk, will you please read the next item on today's calendar?

House Joint Resolution number 38 by Representatives Hall and Eishide urging the United States Congress to recognize public safety telecommunicators as first responders and urging the United States Congress to pass the Enhancing First Response Act.

The Labor and Commerce Committee considered the resolution,

attached one new zero fiscal note,

signing the report do pass.

As Representatives Frere-Cologne, Karick, D. Nelson, and Co-Chairs Fields and Hall,

I have no committee substitute.

Mr. Majority Leader, uh uh I think I'm getting ahead of myself, Madame Clerk. I'm supposed to ask you if there's any amendments.

I have no amendments, Mr.

Speaker.

Mr.

Majority Leader.

Mr. Speaker,

I move and ask unanimous consent that House Joint Resolution 38 be considered engrossed, advanced to third reading and placed on final passage.

There is an objection.

This resolution will be held to the next day's calendar.

Madam Clerk,

please read the next item on today's calendar.

There are citations on today's calendar.

Mr. Majority Leader.

Mr.

Majority Leader.

Mr. Speaker, I move and ask unanimous consent that the House approve the citations on today's calendar.

Hear no objection,

the citations are approved.

This brings us to unfinished business.

Mr. Majority Leader.

Mr. Speaker, I move and ask unanimous consent that the following members be excused from a call of the House on the following dates and times: Representative Jimmy from Sunday,

March 29,

at 9 p.m. to Monday,

March 30,

at 9 p.m.; Representative David Nelson from Monday,

March 30,

at 7 a.m. to Thursday,

April 2,

at 9 a.m.; Representative Stutes from Thursday,

April 2,

at 7.30 a.m. to Monday,

April 6,

at 12.50 p.m.

Hearing no objection,

the members are excused on the dates and times indicated by the majority leader.

Are there any committee announcements?

Are there any other announcements?

This brings us all the way down to special orders.

Representative Gray.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker.

On the topic of facts matter,

Representative Gray.

Mr.

Speaker,

I care a lot about health care in Alaska,

and I worry about the cost of health care in Alaska.

I have concerns about possibly overinflated administrator salaries.

I have concerns about specialty medical groups creating de facto monopolies in our state. I have concerns about...

Different clinics and providers making the best business choice rather than the best health choice, opting for more expensive treatments and procedures when cheaper treatments and procedures may work better.

Those are concerns that I have.

But I also,

as a health care provider,

know that the vast majority of folks working in health care in Alaska do it not because they want to make more money,

but because they care about people,

they care about saving lives.

And there are no people in our state who exemplify these values more than people who work in the neonatal intensive care unit.

In my district.

We have the state's only children's hospital,

the state's only level three neonatal intensive care unit,

and our state's largest maternity center.

The most vulnerable and medically fragile babies in the state are cared for there in my district,

and their annual infant mortality rate remains consistently low with fewer deaths than other U.S. hospital. In fact, Alaska's largest maternity center was recently recognized.

nationally as high performing in maternity care for its labor and delivery service to achieve that national designation it had to demonstrate very low rates of serious complications in newborns

The data shows that NICU deaths are primarily due to severe prematurity or serious congenital or genetic conditions with poor prognosis.

This means that there are babies that are born that their health condition is so severe that there's really nothing that can be done. Sometimes,

despite heroic efforts,

some babies do not make it.

Around the country,

10 to 20 percent of higher risk NICU populations die.

For extremely premature infants,

that rate is much higher.

For babies born at fetal age less than 28 weeks,

less than 100 years ago,

the rate of survival was zero percent.

Today, it's between 70 and 90 percent depending on how premature they are. I want to talk about Anchorage's NICU specifically. And Anchorage's NICU, there is no data indicating a decline in patient outcomes related to staffing or care environment or nurse staffing levels.

Their staffing levels are consistent with nationwide standards.

Permission to look at my notes.

Represent Gray.

Last year in 2025,

577 infants were admitted to our state's level three NICU.

These babies are from all over our state.

Every death of a newborn is a tragic loss for those families.

But last year, that was 19 out of 577 admissions.

That's 3%.

To put it another way, less than 100 years ago,

577 babies would have died.

But thanks to advances in technology,

advances in medical knowledge,

and the most skilled and caring medical teams in the country,

what our grandparents would have viewed as a miracle.

Five hundred and fifty eight babies survived.

We should acknowledge that,

respect that,

be grateful for that, and not spread false propaganda to demonize bills or policies that we don't like. Facts matter,

Mr.

Speaker.

Representative Schragi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

On our birthday.

On the topic of birthday.

Wonderful. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I just wanted to wish my daughter Eleanor Schragi a very happy third birthday.

I can't believe it's been three years and she truly changed my life forever.

For forever.

She brings so much joy, more meaning to my life, also constantly working to make me more patient and kind,

which I'm working on.

And she's been an example of that. I've shared with a few of you.

All week she's been looking at this present up on the shelf saying, is it my birthday yet?

Can I open the present?

And every morning we bring it down and she gets to look at it and touch it and play with the ribbon.

We say, no, you can't open it quite yet.

She goes, OK.

And we put it back up on the shelf.

And today she finally got to open it up.

She was so patient and kind and humble about the whole process.

And today she got to open it up and it was just a lot of joy and excitement.

So anyways, we're going to be having a great weekend celebrating her birthday. So sorry if I'm slow to respond to texts, but she's also helped me focus on what's most important. And I've been working on that this year.

So thank you to Eleanor for everything she does to improve my life and happy birthday to her.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Happy birthday,

Eleanor. Time goes by so quickly.

It really does.

Representative Prox.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Permission to speak on facts matter?

Representative Prox.

Yes.

I share the representative from UMED Anchorage District about his concern about using the legislature to protect your profession.

Instead of recognize the purpose of licensing,

which is to let the public know that somebody has achieved a certain degree of training and professionalism in whatever they're doing.

And this applies to all professions.

But I've kind of accumulated a little library. We have quite a few licensure bills.

medical professional licensure bills and in researching into this I accumulated a bit of a library that illustrates the, I would say it's almost rising to a level of danger to our society where people are more interested in protecting their profession than simply announcing.

Their profession, the purpose of licensing.

So I hope that we keep that in mind when considering all of these professional licensure bills,

but we have several of them that specifically deal with medical licensure, health care.

And the

And

state of Alaska has received a...

really quite a grant for transforming our health care system and again we should be thinking about what really is transforming the system and not just protecting something that

in place.

So if you're interested in those,

just stop by my office and we can talk about that a little bit more.

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Representative Claw?

Thank you, Mr.

thank you, Mr. Speaker.

On the topic of. Whoops, I forgot.

Representative Colon.

So I did forget. We have some special family members that are watching on camera and I wanted to acknowledge Laura's mom, Vicki, is watching who's raised an amazing woman.

My husband,

Mark, is watching who raised an amazing son.

And also the great grandmother of my children,

my mom.

My mom and Bailey is watching,

so I just wanted to make sure I said hi.

Representative Allard.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker.

Babies.

Representative Allard.

So I just wanted to do a factual reminder that 1,126,000 babies were killed by abortion in 2025.

Thank you Mr.

Speaker.

Representative Underwood.

Thank you Mr.

Speaker. On the topic of tiny babies.

Representative UNDERWOOD

Thank you Mr. Speaker. Just on the fly I was reminded that my beautiful niece and nephew were some of the youngest premature twins that were ever born to the Providence NICU.

I can't remember if it was exactly 21,

22-ish weeks that they were born,

and they are now turning,

I believe, 13 this year.

So I just wanted to give a shout-out to the amazing nurses at the Providence NICU, as the member from UMeds said 100 and some years ago they would not be alive.

So I'm just thankful for those workers that we have.

Representative Costello?

No?

Well, Mr.

Majority Leader?

Mr. Speaker,

I move and ask unanimous consent that the House stand at adjournment until Monday,

March 30,

at 10.30 a.m.

There being no objection,

the House will stand adjournment until Monday, March 30 at 10.30 a.m.