CSSSHB 20(EDU): "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 CS FOR SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 20(EDU) 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 to carry out AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the 09 succeeding fiscal year. The bill may include other appropriations for operating 10 expenses for primary and secondary education, but not appropriations for other 11 purposes. The legislature shall, by March 5 of each year, pass and transmit to the 12 governor a bill making appropriations to carry out AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the 13 succeeding fiscal year. The bill may include other appropriations for operating 14 expenses for primary and secondary education, but not appropriations for other
01 purposes. 02 * Sec. 2. AS 37.07.020(a) is amended to read: 03 (a) The governor shall prepare a budget for the succeeding fiscal year that 04 must cover all estimated receipts, including all grants, loans, and money received from 05 the federal government and all proposed expenditures of the state government. The 06 budget shall be organized so that the proposed expenditures for each agency are 07 presented separately. The budget must be accompanied by the information required 08 under AS 37.07.050 and by the following separate bills: (1) an appropriation bill 09 authorizing the operating and capital expenditures of the state's integrated 10 comprehensive mental health program under AS 37.14.003(a) and an appropriation 11 bill funding public education under AS 14.17.302; (2) an appropriation bill 12 authorizing state operating expenditures other than those included in the state's 13 integrated comprehensive mental health program or in the bill funding public 14 education under AS 14.17.302; (3) an appropriation bill authorizing capital 15 expenditures other than those included in the state's integrated comprehensive mental 16 health program; and (4) a bill or bills covering recommendations, if any, in the budget 17 for new or additional revenue. The budget for the succeeding fiscal year and each of 18 the bills shall become public information on December 15, at which time the governor 19 shall submit copies to the legislature and make copies available to the public. The 20 bills, identical in content to the copies released on December 15, shall be delivered to 21 the rules committee of each house before the fourth legislative day of the next regular 22 session for introduction. 23 * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect July 1, 2005.