A bill sponsored by Fairbanks Rep. David Guttenberg honoring champion dog musher Susan Butcher is moving again.
Guttenberg, a Democrat, filed the bill before the start of last year’s legislative session. It moved quickly through the House and passed without opposition, but was held up in the Senate Resources Committee.
On Wednesday, the chair of the Senate Resources Committee asked that the referral to his committee be waived. The referral was waived, and the bill was sent to the State Affairs Committee instead.
Guttenberg said he thought the new committee referral gave the bill a better chance of making it through the Senate.
The bill, HB 37, would establish the first Saturday in March each year — the traditional start date of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race — as Susan Butcher Day.
Butcher died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 51. She won the Iditarod four times.
Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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