2014-04-21                     House Journal                      Page 2754
    requirements; relating to charter schools and student                                                                       
    transportation; establishing a grant program to be administered by                                                          
    the Association of Alaska School Boards for the purchase of                                                                 
    student equipment and technology services; establishing a public                                                            
    school grant program for innovative approaches to learning;                                                                 
    relating to correspondence study programs, funding, and student                                                             
    allotments; relating to residential school applications; increasing                                                         
    the stipend for boarding school students; relating to school                                                                
    construction bond debt reimbursement; relating to the local                                                                 
    contribution to public school funding; relating to funding of and                                                           
    reporting by Alaska technical and vocational education programs;                                                            
    relating to earning high school credit for completion of vocational                                                         
    education courses offered by institutions receiving technical and                                                           
    vocational education program funding; relating to schools                                                                   
    operated by a federal agency; relating to education tax credits;                                                            
    establishing an optional municipal tax exemption for privately                                                              
    owned real property rented or leased for use as a charter school;                                                           
    requiring the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee to provide                                                             
    for studies on the school size factor and the school district cost                                                          
    factor for public education funding and for a study on school staff                                                         
    salary and benefits; requiring the Department of Education and                                                              
    Early Development to report to the legislature on school design                                                             
    and construction; establishing a pilot project for public middle                                                            
    schools; and providing for an effective date."                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
 (SCR 29 - title change resolution)                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
There being no objection, it was so ordered.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Representative Pruitt moved that the House concur in the Senate                                                                 
amendment to CSHB 278(FIN) am, thus adopting SCS CSHB
(FIN) am S, and recommended that the members vote no.                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
The question being:  "Shall the House concur in the Senate                                                                      
amendment to CSHB 278(FIN) am?"  The roll was taken with the                                                                    
following result:                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
SCS CSHB 278(FIN) am S                                                                                                          
Concur                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  0   NAYS:  38   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  2