The Alaska Senate is scheduled to begin debate Monday on a take-it-or-leave-it spending plan that represents the state Legislature’s last chance to finish its work by the end of the 121-day regular session. (via AlaskaBeacon)
Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, listens to Senate Rules Chairman Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, and Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, during a floor session on Thursday, May 11, 2023. that represents the state Legislature’s last chance to finish its work by the end of the 121-day regular session.
Voting ‘no’ guarantees a special session called by Gov. Mike Dunleavy or — less likely — a 10-day extension of the regular session. Those changes offered some hope that the session’s outcome would be as different as the people in the building.The estimate was released just before the state House that contains a Permanent Fund dividend of $2,700 per recipient. At a total cost of $1.7 billion, it’s the largest single item in the House proposal.
Senators responded by cutting the House’s proposed dividend in half, an act that balanced the budget bill but drew the ire of the House. In April, the Senate circulated a draft schedule that promised action in early May, but that draft was disregarded within weeks, as was a Senate promise to not roll all of the state’s budget bills into a single document, nicknamed the When asked at the start of this month why the finance committee was holding on to the budget, Stedman replied, “flexibility.”
Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel and the senator in charge of the capital budget, said it hasn’t been transmitted because House lawmakers didn’t provide a list of projects they want included.While it’s traditional for the House and Senate to reserve a dollar figure in the capital budget, it’s not typical for the House to provide an exact list of projects, Tilton said.Rep. DeLena Johnson, R-Palmer and co-chair of the House Finance Committee, said the Senate’s demands created an unequal playing field.
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