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1995-02-01 Senate Journal
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Full Journal pdf1995-02-01 Senate Journal Page 0128 INTRODUCTION AND REFERENCE OF SENATE BILLS SB 57 SENATE BILL NO. 57 BY THE SENATE RULES COMMITTEE BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR, entitled: "An Act making supplemental appropriations for operating expenses of state government for fiscal year 1995; and providing for an effective date." was read the first time and referred to the Finance Committee. Governor's transmittal letter dated January 30: Dear President Pearce: I am submitting supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1995 to the Legislature in two parts. Appropriations requiring immediate attention are being sent to you and House Speaker Phillips today. The rest will be sent within two weeks. The bill I am sending today addresses five activity areas where expenditure authority is virtually exhausted. The Legislatures immediate attention is necessary if the state is to continue operations within approved appropriation levels. Due to the nature of the requests, I am recommending an immediate effective date for this bill and would appreciate your earliest possible attention to it. The five areas are not unfamiliar to the Legislature. The Department of Corrections is under court order to correct problems in the prisons. The mental health lands settlement which was accepted by Judge Greene in December requires that we establish the Mental Health Trust Authority immediately. Response to last summers Koyukuk River flood requires expenditures in excess of the amounts in the disaster relief fund. There are serious consequences to leaving trooper positions vacant, as necessitated by the funding level approved last spring. Finally, the Legislature expressly funded oil and gas litigation for only one half of the year. Additional information relating to these requests is available to the Legislature from the Office of Management and Budget.