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06/10/2015 06:30 PM House CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON HB2001
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29TH ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE (YEAR ONE)
SECOND SPECIAL SESSION
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON HB 2001
June 10, 2015
6:52 p.m.
[Note: Meeting was held in Anchorage, Alaska at the
Anchorage Legislative Office.]
6:52:25 PM
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Neuman called the Conference Committee meeting on HB
2001 to order at 6:52 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT:
House:
Representative Mark Neuman, Chair
Representative Steve Thompson
Representative Les Gara
Senate:
Senator Pete Kelly, Vice-Chair
Senator Anna MacKinnon
Senator Donny Olson
MEMBERS ABSENT
None
ALSO PRESENT:
Aides to committee members and other members of the
Legislature.
SUMMARY
HB 2001 APPROP: OPERATING BUDGET/LOANS/FUNDS
CCSHB 2001 was REPORTED out of committee with a
"do pass" recommendation.
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2001(FIN) am
"An Act making appropriations for the operating and
loan program expenses of state government and for
certain programs; making appropriations for the
operating expenses of the state's integrated
comprehensive mental health program; capitalizing
funds and repealing appropriations; making
appropriations under art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution
of the State of Alaska, from the constitutional budget
reserve fund; and providing for an effective date."
and
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2001(FIN)
"An Act making appropriations for the operating and
loan program expenses of state government and for
certain programs and capitalizing funds; repealing
appropriations; making appropriations under art. IX,
sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska, from
the constitutional budget reserve fund; and providing
for an effective date."
Chair Neuman relayed that the conference committee would
address the remaining open items based on motion sheets
dated June 10, 2015 (copy on file). He highlighted that the
June 3, 2015 conference committee meeting had recessed with
a motion on the table. He had objected to the motion. He
detailed that the conference committee had taken action on
Item 1 of the motion at the previous meeting. The remainder
of the motion to adopt the House version of Items 6, 7, 8.
9, 10, 11, 12, and 15 was currently before the committee.
Chair Neuman WITHDREW his OBJECTION.
6:53:20 PM
Vice-Chair Kelly OBJECTED for the purpose of an amendment.
He MOVED to AMEND the motion for Items 6 through 12 to
change the fund source from the Constitutional Budget
Reserve Fund (CBR)(fund code 1001) to Unrestricted General
Funds (fund code 1004); and to move all of the items to
Section 1 of the bill. The fund source for Item 15 would
remain federal receipts (fund code 1002), which was
currently in Section 1.
Representative Gara OBJECTED for discussion. He asked for
verification that fund code 1001 was Unrestricted General
Fund as opposed to one-time only funds. Chair Neuman
replied in the affirmative.
Representative Gara WITHDREW his OBJECTION. There being NO
further OBJECTION, the motion was AMENDED.
There being NO OBJECTION, the motion to approve the House
version of Items 6, 7, 8. 9, 10, 11, 12, and 15 was ADOPTED
as amended.
6:54:39 PM
Vice-Chair Kelly MOVED to ADOPT the following items:
Item 2 House: denies education funding outside the
formula
Item 3 House: adds the salary increases as a one-
time item and also adds intent language per
Amendment 29-LS0960\I.A.12 Mischel/Wallace
6/10/15
Item 4 Senate: adds the unlimited FY15 CBR draw
Item 5 Senate: adds the unlimited FY16 CBR draw
Item 13 Senate: deletes contingency language
Item 14 House: adds retroactive effective dates w
here necessary
Item 16 House: adds the unallocated reduction of
$29.8 million and also adds intent language
per Amendment 29-LS0960\I.A.11 Wallace
6/10/15
Representative Gara OBJECTED for discussion.
6:55:05 PM
Chair Neuman asked Vice-Chair Kelly to read the legislative
intent language for Item 16.
Vice-Chair Kelly read the legislative intent language for
Item 16:
It is the intent of the legislature that the
unallocated reduction be implemented in a manner that
results in a minimum number of state employee layoffs
and that is geared toward finding internal agency and
department efficiencies. It is the intent of the
legislature that no supplemental funding be requested
during the next regular session to fill the
unallocated reduction.
Representative Gara OBJECTED to Item 5.
6:55:56 PM
AT EASE
6:56:25 PM
RECONVENED
Chair Neuman asked Vice-Chair Kelly to restate the motion
related to Item 3.
Vice-Chair Kelly restated that the motion would adopt the
House numbers for Item 3, which added the salary increases
as a one-time item and also added intent language per
Amendment 29-LS0960\I.A.12 (Mischel/Wallace 6/10/15).
Representative Gara reiterated his OBJECTION on Item 5. He
understood that Item 5 used the Senate's CBR language. He
believed that a subsequent motion would replace the current
language; based on that understanding he WITHDREW his
OBJECTION. There being NO further OBJECTION, it was so
ordered.
6:57:38 PM
Vice-Chair Kelly MOVED that the conference committee ADOPT
new Item 17 in Amendment 29-LS0960\S.3 Wallace 6/5/15 (copy
on file), which would make passage of the bill contingent
on an affirmative three-quarter CBR vote for FY 16 in each
house of the 29th Legislature, Second Special Session.
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.
6:58:09 PM
Vice-Chair Kelly MOVED that the conference committee ADOPT
new Item 18 in Amendment 29-LS0960\I.A.13 Martin/Wallace
6/10/15 (copy on file). The amendment would limit the FY 16
CBR draw to the amounts necessary to fund the operating,
mental health, and capital budgets, and this Act, plus the
amount necessary, not to exceed $500 million for future FY
16 appropriations.
Representative Gara OBJECTED for discussion. He clarified
that the motion would replace the former CBR language on
Item 5 of the conference committee motion sheet. Chair
Neuman replied in the affirmative.
Representative Gara WITHDREW his OBJECTION. There being NO
further OBJECTION, it was so ordered.
Chair Neuman relayed that the action closed all of the
items subject to conference committee.
6:59:31 PM
Vice-Chair Kelly MOVED that the conference committee give
Legislative Finance and Legislative Legal the ability to
make technical and conforming adjustments to the Conference
Committee Substitute for House Bill 2001. There being NO
OBJECTION, it was so ordered.
Vice-Chair Kelly MOVED to report CCSHB 2001 from committee.
There being NO OBJECTION, CCSHB 2001 was REPORTED out of
committee with a "do pass" recommendation.
Chair Neuman thanked members, staff, the Legislative
Finance Division, Legislative Legal Services, and the
Office of Management and Budget for their work on the
budget.
ADJOURNMENT
7:00:59 PM
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