SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
     Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the                                                                          
     State of Alaska relating to contracting state debt for                                                                     
     postsecondary student loans.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
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KRISTEN  PRATT,  STAFF,  SENATOR  ANNA  MACKINNON,  explained                                                                   
that she  was available to go  over the resolution  or answer                                                                   
any questions from the committee.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
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Senator  Dunleavy discussed  the  fiscal  note. He  explained                                                                   
that the  bill would  put a constitutional  amendment  on the                                                                   
ballot, and the  fiscal note was estimated at  $1500 to print                                                                   
ballots. He thought  that the two page fiscal  note indicated                                                                   
the cost  could go  up to  $22 thousand  [he later  corrected                                                                   
himself].                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
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Senator Dunleavy  corrected himself and explained  that there                                                                   
was a zero fiscal note.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair MacKinnon  confirmed that the fiscal note  was zero.                                                                   
She remarked that  passage of the resolution  would require a                                                                   
constitutional  amendment  to  appear  on  the  2016  general                                                                   
election ballot.                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Senator  Dunleavy MOVED  to  REPORT SJR  2  out of  committee                                                                   
with individual  recommendations and the  accompanying fiscal                                                                   
note. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
SJR  2  was  REPORTED  out of  committee  with  a  "do  pass"                                                                   
recommendation  and   with  one  previously   published  zero                                                                   
fiscal note: FN1 (GOV).                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
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