HB 20: "An Act relating to a separate appropriation bill for operating expenses for primary and secondary public education and establishing a date by which the bill must be transmitted to the governor each year; and providing for an effective date."
00 HOUSE BILL NO. 20 01 "An Act relating to a separate appropriation bill for operating expenses for primary 02 and secondary public education and establishing a date by which the bill must be 03 transmitted to the governor each year; and providing for an effective date." 04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05 * Section 1. AS 14.17 is amended by adding a new section to read: 06 Sec. 14.17.302. Appropriations for funding public education. The 07 governor shall, before the fourth legislative day of each regular session, submit to the 08 legislature a separate appropriation bill limited to appropriations to carry out 09 AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the succeeding fiscal year. The legislature shall, by 10 April 1 of each year, pass and transmit to the governor a bill making appropriations to 11 carry out AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the succeeding fiscal year. 12 * Sec. 2. AS 37.07.020(a) is amended to read: 13 (a) The governor shall prepare a budget for the succeeding fiscal year that 14 must cover all estimated receipts, including all grants, loans, and money received from
01 the federal government and all proposed expenditures of the state government. The 02 budget shall be organized so that the proposed expenditures for each agency are 03 presented separately. The budget must be accompanied by the information required 04 under AS 37.07.050 and by the following separate bills: (1) an appropriation bill 05 authorizing the operating and capital expenditures of the state's integrated 06 comprehensive mental health program under AS 37.14.003(a) and an appropriation 07 bill funding public education under AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490; (2) an appropriation 08 bill authorizing state operating expenditures other than those included in the state's 09 integrated comprehensive mental health program or in the bill funding public 10 education under AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490; (3) an appropriation bill authorizing 11 capital expenditures other than those included in the state's integrated comprehensive 12 mental health program; and (4) a bill or bills covering recommendations, if any, in the 13 budget for new or additional revenue. The budget for the succeeding fiscal year and 14 each of the bills shall become public information on December 15, at which time the 15 governor shall submit copies to the legislature and make copies available to the public. 16 The bills, identical in content to the copies released on December 15, shall be 17 delivered to the rules committee of each house before the fourth legislative day of the 18 next regular session for introduction. 19 * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect July 1, 2005.