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examination and related 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" was read the third time.                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Senator Coghill moved that the bill be returned to second reading for                                                           
all amendments offered today. Without objection, the bill was returned                                                          
to second reading.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Senator Meyer offered Amendment No. 1 :                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
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Senator Meyer moved for the adoption of Amendment No. 1. Without                                                                
objection, Amendment No. 1 was adopted.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 278(FIN) am S was                                                                           
automatically in third reading.