{"id":67391,"date":"2021-02-02T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-senate-approves-report-voting-resolution\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:28:49","slug":"state-senate-approves-report-voting-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-senate-approves-report-voting-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"State senate approves remote voting resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ins><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Senate passed a resolution Wednesday intended to allow for remote voting if necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The measure next goes to the House, which hasn&rsquo;t organized a majority. The legislative session began Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Rules Chair Gary Stevens, a Kodiak Republican, said the measure would provide another tool to allow for legislative work to continue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nobody hopes we have to do it. &#8230; But we needed to have something in place just in case that should happen,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Legislative leaders before the start of the new session approved moving forward with plans to set up such a system. The project timeline called for 30 days to develop and up to one week to prepare the system for use.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would allow the Senate president or House speaker to authorize a lawmaker to attend a session by videoconference if the member is in quarantine or has contracted COVID-19 or when necessary to establish a quorum if the Legislature cannot physically meet due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>When attendance by videoconference is authorized, the presiding officer is to be physically present in the Capitol when conducting a session.<\/p>\n<p><ins><strong>Read the full resolution below: <\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\"\n  src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20470245-scr001b\/?embed=1&#038;title=1\"\n  title=\"SCR001B (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\"\n  width=\"700\"\n  height=\"905\"\n  style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa;\"\n  sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\"\n><\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presiding officers could OK attending session via videoconference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":67392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[34,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67391"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}