Legislature(2013 - 2014)
04/19/2014 10:25 PM Joint HB266
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28TH ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SESSION
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON HB266 and HB267
April 19, 2014
10:25 p.m.
10:25:16 PM
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Kelly called the Conference Committee meeting on
HB266 and HB267 to order at 10:25 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Senate:
Senator Pete Kelly, Chair
Senator Kevin Meyer
Senator Lyman Hoffman
House:
Representative Alan Austerman, Vice-Chair
Representative Bill Stoltze
Representative Les Gara
ALSO PRESENT:
David Teal, Director, Legislative Finance Division; fiscal
analysts with the Office of Management and Budget and
Legislative Finance Division; and aides to committee
members and other members of the Legislature.
SUMMARY
HB 266 APPROP: OPERATING BUDGET/LOANS/FUNDS
CCS HB 266 was REPORTED out of committee with a
"do pass" recommendation.
HB 267 APPROP: MENTAL HEALTH BUDGET
CCS HB 267 was REPORTED out of committee with a
"do pass" recommendation.
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 266(FIN)
"An Act making appropriations for the operating and
loan program expenses of state government and for
certain programs, capitalizing funds, and making
reappropriations; and providing for an effective
date."
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 266(FIN)
"An Act making appropriations for the operating and
loan program expenses of state government and for
certain programs, capitalizing funds, and making
reappropriations; and providing for an effective
date."
and
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 267(FIN)
"An Act making appropriations for the operating and
capital expenses of the state's integrated
comprehensive mental health program; and providing for
an effective date."
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 267(FIN)
"An Act making appropriations for the operating and
capital expenses of the state's integrated
comprehensive mental health program; and providing for
an effective date."
DEPARTMENTS
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
BRAND-WIDE UNALLOCATED REDUCTIONS
ALASKA LEGISLATURE
FUND CAPITALIZATION
LANGAUGE
Chair Kelly communicated that the committee would take up
all remaining open items in HB 266 and HB 267, based on the
motion sheets distributed to members earlier in the day
(copy on file), dated 04/19/14, for the following
departments:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10:26:50 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Commerce, Community and Economic Development's budget:
Item 2: Senate
Item 4: House
10:27:08 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the
Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT
10:27:18 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Education and Early Development's budget:
Item 2: House minus $25 million
Item 3: House
Item 5: Senate
Item 7: House
Item 8: Senate minus $250,000
Item 9: Senate
Item 11: Senate
10:28:10 PM
AT EASE
10:29:16 PM
RECONVENED
10:29:22 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the
Department of Education and Early Development.
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
10:29:31 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Environmental Conservation's budget:
Item 6: House
10:29:45 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the
Department of Environmental Conservation.
10:30:01 PM
AT EASE
10:30:33 PM
RECONVENED
DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME
10:30:38 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Fish and Game's budget:
Item 1: House
Item 7: House
Item 9: Senate
10:30:57 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the
Department of Fish and Game.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
10:31:13 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Health and Social Services' budget:
Item 1: House
Item 2: House
Item 3: House plus $521,500 GF/MH (1037) and plus
$521,500 in Fed Rcpts (1002)
Item 4: House plus $720,000 GF/MH (1037) and plus
$280,000 Fed Rcpts (1002)
Item 5: House
Item 6: House
Item 7: Senate
Item 8: Senate
Item 9: Senate
Item 10: House
Item 11: Senate minus $500,000
Item 12: House plus $1 million UGF (1004) and $1
million Fed Rcpts (1002)
Item 13: Senate
Item 14: Senate
Item 15: Senate
Item 16: Senate but change UGF (1004) to Fed Rcpts
(1002)
Item 17: House
Item 18: Senate minus $400,000
Item 19: House
Item 20: House
Item 21: Senate
Item 22: House
Item 23: House
Item 24: House plus $500,000 UGF (1004) and $500,000
Fed Rcpts
Item 25: Senate
Item 26: House
Item 27: Senate
Item 28: House
Item 29: House
10:34:53 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the
Department of Health and Social Services.
10:35:12 PM
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Labor and Workforce Development's budget:
Item 4: Senate- Change from a transfer to a decrement
Item 6: Senate- Change from a transfer to a decrement
one time item (OTI).
10:35:43 PM
AT EASE
10:36:08 PM
RECONVENED
10:36:14 PM
Co-Chair Austerman MOVED to RECIND the committee's action
on Item 2 in the Department of Labor and Workforce
Development's budget. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so
ordered.
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Labor and Workforce Development's budget:
Item 2: Senate numbers of $1.4 million.
Senator Meyer inquired which item was being adopted. Chair
Kelly and Vice-Chair Austerman replied that it was Item 2
under the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
10:37:05 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, the Senate number of $1.4 million
was ADOPTED for Item 2. The action closed all conferencable
items in the budget for the Department of Labor and
Workforce Development.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES
10:37:15 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Department of
Transportation and Public Facilities' budget:
Item 1: Senate plus $160,900
Item 2: House
Item 3: House
Item 4: House
Item 5: Senate but delete bolded/bracketed sentence:
"[in order to offset the one-time $2 million from the
Capitalization Subaccount within the Alaska Marine
Highway System Fund, beginning in FY 2016]."
Item 6: Senate
Item 7: Senate
10:38:25 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the
Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
10:38:35 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the University of
Alaska's budget:
Item 8: Senate change to an OTI
Item 9: Senate
10:38:58 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the
University of Alaska.
BRAND-WIDE UNALLOCATED REDUCTIONS
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Branch-Wide
Unallocated Reductions' budget:
Item 1: Senate
10:39:27 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for Branch-
Wide Unallocated Reductions.
ALASKA LEGISLATURE
10:39:35 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items for the Alaska
Legislature's budget.
Item 1: Senate
Item 2: Senate
Item 3: House
Item 4: Senate plus $220,000
Item 5: Senate minus $220,000
10:40:13 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for the Alaska
Legislature.
FUND CAPITALIZATION
10:40:22 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items within the Fund
Capitalization budget:
Item 1: Senate minus $500,000
Item 2: Senate minus $1 million
10:40:42 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all conferencable items in the budget for Fund
Capitalization.
LANGAUGE
10:40:57 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the Chair's
recommendation on the following items within the Language
section portion of the budget:
Item 1: House
Item 2: House
Item 6: Senate
Item 9: Senate with amended language to (e)(2)
"to the university of Alaska, 15 percent of the
total plus or minus [five] three percent;"
No action is required on Items 3,5,7,8,10,11,12, and
13.
10:42:07 PM
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. The action
closed all of the open items in the Language section of the
budget.
10:42:11 PM
AT EASE
10:47:00 PM
RECONVENED
10:47:15 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADOPT the document with the
footer "FY15 Fiscal Note Section to HB 266, Section 2" as
Section 2 of HB 266 (copy on file).
Chair Kelly OBJECTED for the purpose discussion.
Vice-Chair Austerman explained that Section 2 made
appropriations associated with the bills listed. If a
listed bill either failed to pass, its substance failed to
be incorporated in some other measure, or is vetoed by the
governor, the appropriations associated with that bill are
reduced. The attached report prepared by the Legislative
Finance Division list the fund sources and agencies
associated with the bill.
10:48:32 PM
Chair Kelly WITHDREW his OBJECTION.
There being NO further OBJECTION, the document with the
footer "FY15 Fiscal Note Section to HB 266, Section 2" was
ADOPTED as Section 2 of HB 266.
Representative Stoltze noted for those listening that there
was no guarantee that the bills would pass.
10:48:46 PM
Chair Kelly stated that fiscal notes associated with HB 278
would be attached to SB 119.
10:48:55 PM
AT EASE
10:49:12 PM
RECONVENED
10:49:22 PM
Chair Kelly requested that Mr. Teal explain which other
bills might be attached to SB 119. Mr. Teal replied that
the committee had adopted all of the fiscal notes that were
the same in the House and the Senate. He pointed out that
some of the notes could not be included in Section 2 of HB
266 because of different circumstances. He explained that
in the case of HB 278, there was no agreement between the
House and the Senate and that what those fiscal notes would
look like was unknown currently; there was also money for
HB 278 outside of the fiscal note that would be potentially
incorporated in SB 119. He reported that HB 316 contained a
supplemental appropriation for workmen's compensation to
the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. He
stated that HB 385 was in the capital budget because it
also required language for the super majority vote due to
the use of the Constitutional Budget Reserve. He added that
HB 138 contained 3 different supplemental appropriations
and that SB 195 had a capital appropriation to post-
secondary education for $460,000.
10:51:17 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED that the authorization be given
to the Legislative Finance Division and Legislative Legal
Services to make any necessary technical and/or conforming
changes to CCS HB 266 and CCS HB 267.
10:51:30 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to REPORT CCS HB 266 out of
committee with individual recommendations. There being NO
OBJECTION, it was so ordered.
CCS HB 266 was REPORTED out of committee with a "do pass"
recommendation.
10:51:42 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to REPORT CCS HB 267 out of
committee with individual recommendations. There being NO
OBJECTION, it was so ordered.
CCS HB 267 was REPORTED out of committee with a "do pass"
recommendation.
10:51:59 PM
Chair Kelly thanked members, staff, the Legislative Finance
Division, Legislative Legal Services, and the Office of
Management and Budget for their work on the budget.
10:52:40 PM
Vice-Chair Austerman MOVED to ADJOURN the committee.
Representative Gara thanked the Co-Chairs for keeping their
doors open and listening to his perspective. He appreciated
the open dialogue.
Co-Chair Kelly noted that it was good working with
Representative Gara.
Senator Hoffman thanked the committee and in particular the
chairman for his leadership in getting the operating budget
done smoothly.
Co-Chair Kelly responded that the comments were high praise
coming from Senator Hoffman.
Senator Meyer stated that it had been a pleasure working
with Chair Kelly and Vice-Chair Austerman. He observed that
he and Representative Stoltze had been focused on their
respective capital budgets, but thought that Chair Kelly
and Vice-Chair Austerman had done an excellent job on the
operating budget and keeping expenditures down.
ADJOURNMENT
10:54:23 PM
The meeting was adjourned at 10:54 p.m.
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