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HB 339                                                                                                                        
The following was read the second time:                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
    HOUSE BILL NO. 339                                                                                                          
    "An Act relating to the base student allocation; and providing for                                                          
    an effective date."                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
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Amendment No. 1 was offered  by Representative Parish:                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Page 1, following line 5:                                                                                                       
    Insert a new bill section to read:                                                                                          
"* Sec. 2. AS 14.17.470 is amended by adding a new subsection to                                                              
read:                                                                                                                           
         (b)  The department shall annually adjust the base student                                                             
    allocation to reflect the change in the Consumer Price Index for all                                                        
    urban consumers for the Anchorage metropolitan area compiled                                                                
    by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of                                                              
     Labor. The index for January 2018 is the reference base index."                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Renumber the following bill section accordingly.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Representative Parish moved and asked unanimous consent that                                                                    
Amendment No. 1 be adopted.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
There was objection.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
Representative Parish moved and asked unanimous consent to                                                                      
withdraw Amendment No. 1.  There being no objection, it was so                                                                  
ordered.                                                                                                                        
HB 339                                                                                                                        
HB 339 was before the House in second reading.                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Amendment No. 2 was offered  by Representative Wilson:                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Page 1, line 1 (title amendment):                                                                                               
    Delete "the base student allocation"                                                                                      
    Insert "public school funding"                                                                                            

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Page 1, lines 3 - 5:                                                                                                            
    Delete all material and insert:                                                                                             
"* Section 1. AS 14.17 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                            
         Sec. 14.17.475. Public school funding supplement. In                                                                 
    addition to other school funding available under this chapter, the                                                          
    department shall annually distribute to each school district an                                                             
    amount equal to $100 for each student counted under                                                                         
    AS 14.17.500 in the district for the previous fiscal year."                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Representative Wilson moved and asked unanimous consent that                                                                    
Amendment No. 2 be adopted.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Representative Gara objected.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
The question being:  "Shall Amendment No. 2 be adopted?"  The roll                                                              
was taken with the following result:                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
HB 339                                                                                                                          
Second Reading                                                                                                                  
Amendment No. 2                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
YEAS:  10   NAYS:  30   EXCUSED:  0   ABSENT:  0                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Yeas:  Birch, Johnson, Johnston, Kopp, Millett, Pruitt, Saddler,                                                                
Talerico, Thompson, Wilson                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
Nays:  Chenault, Claman, Drummond, Eastman, Edgmon, Foster,                                                                     
Gara, Grenn, Guttenberg, Josephson, Kawasaki, Kito, Knopp,                                                                      
Kreiss-Tomkins, LeDoux, Lincoln, Neuman, Ortiz, Parish, Rauscher,                                                               
Reinbold, Seaton, Spohnholz, Stutes, Sullivan-Leonard, Tarr, Tilton,                                                            
Tuck, Wool, Zulkosky                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
And so, Amendment No. 2 was not adopted.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Representative Tuck moved and asked unanimous consent that                                                                      
HB 339 be considered engrossed, advanced to third reading, and                                                                  
placed on final passage.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
There was objection.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
HB 339 will advance to third reading on tomorrow's calendar.