00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 19                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to appropriations for operating expenses for primary and secondary                                     
02 public education; and providing for an effective date."                                                                 
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 14.17 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
05            Sec. 14.17.302.  Appropriations for funding public education.  The                                         
06       governor shall, before the fourth legislative day of each regular session, submit to the                          
07       legislature a separate appropriation bill limited to appropriations to carry out                                  
08       AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the succeeding fiscal year.  The legislature shall, by                               
09       April 1 of each year, pass and transmit to the governor a bill making appropriations to                           
10       carry out AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the succeeding fiscal year.                                                
11    * Sec. 2.  AS 37.07.020(a) is amended to read:                                                                     
12            (a)  The governor shall prepare a budget for the succeeding fiscal year that                                 
13       must cover all estimated receipts, including all grants, loans, and money received from                           
14       the federal government and all proposed expenditures of the state government.  The                                

01       budget shall be organized so that the proposed expenditures for each agency are                                   
02       presented separately.  The budget must be accompanied by the information required                                 
03       under AS 37.07.050 and by the following separate bills: (1) an appropriation bill                                 
04       authorizing the operating and capital expenditures of the state's integrated                                      
05       comprehensive mental health program under AS 37.14.003(a) and an appropriation                                
06       bill funding public education under AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490; (2) an appropriation                            
07       bill authorizing state operating expenditures other than those included in the state's                            
08       integrated comprehensive mental health program or in the bill funding public                                  
09       education under AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490; (3) an appropriation bill authorizing                               
10       capital expenditures other than those included in the state's integrated comprehensive                            
11       mental health program; and (4) a bill or bills covering recommendations, if any, in the                           
12       budget for new or additional revenue.  The budget for the succeeding fiscal year and                              
13       each of the bills shall become public information on December 15, at which time the                           
14       governor shall submit copies to the legislature and make copies available to the public.                          
15       The bills, identical in content to the copies released on December 15, shall be                                   
16       delivered to the rules committee of each house before the fourth legislative day of the                           
17       next regular session for introduction.                                                                            
18    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect July 1, 2003.