00                            SENATE BILL NO. 13                                                                          
01 "An Act requiring a separate appropriation bill for funding public education; providing                                 
02 for an increase in the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of                                 
03 public education; establishing a date by which the bill funding public education must be                                
04 transmitted to the governor; and providing for an effective date."                                                      
05 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
06    * Section 1.  AS 14.17 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
07            Sec. 14.17.302.  Appropriations for funding public education.  The                                         
08       governor shall, before the fourth legislative day of each regular session, submit to the                          
09       legislature a separate appropriation bill limited to appropriations to carry out                                  
10       AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the succeeding fiscal year.  The legislature shall, by                               
11       April 1 of each year, pass and transmit to the governor a bill making appropriations to                           
12       carry out AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490 for the succeeding fiscal year.                                                
13    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.17.470 is amended to read:                                                                        
14            Sec. 14.17.470.  Base student allocation.  The base student allocation is                                  

01       $4,869 [$4,576].                                                                                              
02    * Sec. 3.  AS 37.07.020(a) is amended to read:                                                                     
03            (a)  The governor shall prepare a budget for the succeeding fiscal year that                                 
04       must cover all estimated receipts, including all grants, loans, and money received from                           
05       the federal government and all proposed expenditures of the state government.  The                                
06       budget shall be organized so that the proposed expenditures for each agency are                                   
07       presented separately.  The budget must be accompanied by the information required                                 
08       under AS 37.07.050 and by the following separate bills: (1) an appropriation bill                                 
09       authorizing the operating and capital expenditures of the state's integrated                                      
10       comprehensive mental health program under AS 37.14.003(a); (2) an appropriation                                   
11       bill authorizing state operating expenditures other than those included in the state's                            
12       integrated comprehensive mental health program or in the bill funding public                                  
13       education under AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490; (3) an appropriation bill authorizing                               
14       capital expenditures other than those included in the state's integrated comprehensive                            
15       mental health program; (4) an appropriation bill funding public education under                               
16       AS 14.17.400 - 14.17.490; and (5) [(4)] a bill or bills covering recommendations, if                      
17       any, in the budget for new or additional revenue.  The budget for the succeeding fiscal                           
18       year and each of the bills shall become public information on December 15, at which                           
19       time the governor shall submit copies to the legislature and make copies available to                             
20       the public.  The bills, identical in content to the copies released on December 15, shall                         
21       be delivered to the rules committee of each house before the fourth legislative day of                            
22       the next regular session for introduction.                                                                        
23    * Sec. 4.  This Act takes effect July 1, 2005.