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SB 65                                                                                             
The Finance Committee considered SENATE BILL NO. 65 "An Act                                         
authorizing the Department of Corrections to enter into agreements                                  
with municipalities for new or expanded public correctional facilities                              
in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough,                                 
Bethel, and the Municipality of Anchorage" and recommended it be                                    
replaced with                                                                                       
                                                                                                    
       CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 65(FIN) "An Act relating to                                           
       correctional officers, parole officers, and probation officers;                              
       authorizing the Department of Corrections to enter into                                      
       agreements with municipalities for new or expanded public                                    
       correctional facilities in the Fairbanks North Star Borough,                                 
       the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Bethel, the Municipality                                      
       of Anchorage, and the City of Seward; relating to the                                        
       development and financing of privately operated                                              
       correctional facility space and services; authorizing the                                    
       Department of Corrections to enter into an agreement with                                    
       the City of Whittier for the confinement and care of                                         
       prisoners in privately operated correctional facility space if                               
       the state cannot provide those services for the same or less                                 
       cost; giving notice of and approving, and authorizing the                                    
       entry into and issuance of certificates of participation for,                                
       the upgrade, expansion, and replacement of certain jails in                                  
       Dillingham and Kodiak; and providing for an effective                                        
       date."                                                                                       
                                                                                                    
Signing do pass: Senators Green, Wilken, Cochairs; Senators                                         
Hoffman, Ben Stevens, Dyson. Signing no recommendation: Senator                                     
Olson.                                                                                              

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The following fiscal information was published today:                                               
 Fiscal Note No. 2, Department of Corrections                                                       
                                                                                                    
The bill is on today's calendar.