00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 60                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to budget planning and a fiscal plan for the State of Alaska."                                         
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 37.07.070 is amended to read:                                                                      
04            Sec. 37.07.070. Legislative review. The legislature shall consider the                                     
05       governor's proposed comprehensive operating and capital improvements programs,                                    
06       and fiscal plan if it is required under AS 37.07.020(b), evaluate alternatives to the                             
07       plans, make program selections among the various alternatives, and determine, subject                             
08       to available revenues, the level of funding required to support authorized state                                  
09       services. The presiding officer of each house shall [MAY] refer the fiscal plan to one                        
10       or more committees. If the fiscal plan is referred, the first committee of referral shall                         
11       hold at least one hearing on it. The operating and capital budgets of each agency shall                           
12       be separately reviewed. During each regular session of the legislature, legislative                               
13       review of the governor's supplemental appropriation bills and the governor's budget                               
14       amendments are governed by the following time limits:                                                             
15                 (1)  requests by the governor for supplemental appropriations for state                                 

01       agency operating and capital budgets for the current fiscal year may be introduced by                             
02       the rules committee only through the 15th legislative day;                                                        
03                 (2)  requests by the governor for budget amendments to state agency                                     
04       budgets for the budget fiscal year may be received and reviewed by the finance                                    
05       committees only through the 30th legislative day.