Legislature(2023 - 2024)
2024-02-21 House Journal
Full Journal pdf2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1575 SB 140 The following was before the House in second reading: CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 140(FIN) "An Act relating to funding for Internet services for school districts; and providing for an effective date." SB 140 The following was before the House in second reading: CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 140(FIN) "An Act relating to funding for Internet services for school districts; and providing for an effective date." Amendment Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 were not offered. Amendment No. 5 was offered by Representative Dibert: Page 1, line 1, following "districts;" (title amendment): Insert "relating to the base student allocation;" Page 1, following line 9: Insert a new bill section to read: "* Sec. 2. AS 14.17.470 is amended to read: Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $6,640 [$5,960]." Renumber the following bill sections accordingly. 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1576 Page 1, line 10: Delete "This" Delete "Section 1 of this" Page 1, following line 10: Insert a new bill section to read: "* Sec. 4. Section 2 of this Act takes effect July 1, 2024." Representative Dibert moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 5 be adopted. Representative Eastman objected. Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 5 was offered by Representative Gray: Page 1, line 7 of the amendment: Delete "$6,640" Insert "$7,850" Representative Gray moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted. There was objection. The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: CSSB 140(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 5 YEAS: 19 NAYS: 21 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Armstrong, Carrick, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, Josephson, McCormick, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Schrage, Story, Stutes Nays: Allard, Baker, Carpenter, Coulombe, Cronk, Eastman, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, McCabe, McKay, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Shaw, Stapp, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 1 to Amendment No. 5 was not adopted. 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1577 Amendment No. 2 to Amendment No. 5 was offered by Representative Ortiz: Page 1, line 7 of the amendment: Delete "$6,640" Insert "$6,840" Representative Ortiz moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 2 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted. Representative Eastman objected. The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 2 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: CSSB 140(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 2 to Amendment No. 5 YEAS: 19 NAYS: 21 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Armstrong, Carrick, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, Josephson, McCormick, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Schrage, Story, Stutes Nays: Allard, Baker, Carpenter, Coulombe, Cronk, Eastman, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, McCabe, McKay, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Shaw, Stapp, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 2 to Amendment No. 5 was not adopted. Amendment No. 3 to Amendment No. 5 was offered by Representative Himschoot: Page 1, line 7 of the amendment: Delete "$6,640" Insert "$7,230" Representative Himschoot moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 3 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted. There was objection. 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1578 The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 3 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: CSSB 140(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 3 to Amendment No. 5 YEAS: 19 NAYS: 21 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Armstrong, Carrick, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, Josephson, McCormick, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Schrage, Story, Stutes Nays: Allard, Baker, Carpenter, Coulombe, Cronk, Eastman, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, McCabe, McKay, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Shaw, Stapp, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 3 to Amendment No. 5 was not adopted. Amendment No. 4 to Amendment No. 5 was offered by Representative Carrick: Page 1, line 7 of the amendment: Delete "$6,640" Insert "$7,373" Representative Carrick moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 4 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted. There was objection. The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 4 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: CSSB 140(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 4 to Amendment No. 5 YEAS: 19 NAYS: 21 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Armstrong, Carrick, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, Josephson, McCormick, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Schrage, Story, Stutes 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1579 Nays: Allard, Baker, Carpenter, Coulombe, Cronk, Eastman, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, McCabe, McKay, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Shaw, Stapp, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 4 to Amendment No. 5 was not adopted. Amendment No. 5 to Amendment No. 5 was offered by Representative Story: Page 1, following line 8 of the amendment: Insert a new bill section to read: "* Sec. 3. AS 13.17.470 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: (b) On July 1, 2025, the department shall increase the base student allocation by a percentage equal to the average percentage of increase over the preceding four calendar years in all items of the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for urban Alaska prepared by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics." Representative Story moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 5 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted. There was objection. The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 5 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: CSSB 140(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 5 to Amendment No. 5 YEAS: 19 NAYS: 21 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Armstrong, Carrick, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, Josephson, McCormick, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Schrage, Story, Stutes Nays: Allard, Baker, Carpenter, Coulombe, Cronk, Eastman, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, McCabe, McKay, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Shaw, Stapp, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 5 to Amendment No. 5 was not adopted. 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1580 Amendment No. 6 to Amendment No. 5 was offered by Representative Story: Page 1, following line 8: Insert "Sec. 3. AS 14.17.470, as amended by sec. 2 of this Act, is amended to read: Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $6,760 [$6,640]. Renumber the following bill section accordingly. Page 1, following line 18: Insert a new bill section to read: "*Sec. 5. Section 3 of this Act takes effect July 1, 2025." Representative Story moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 6 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted. There was objection. The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 6 to Amendment No. 5 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: CSSB 140(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 6 to Amendment No. 5 YEAS: 19 NAYS: 21 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Armstrong, Carrick, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, Josephson, McCormick, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Schrage, Story, Stutes Nays: Allard, Baker, Carpenter, Coulombe, Cronk, Eastman, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, McCabe, McKay, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Shaw, Stapp, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 6 to Amendment No. 5 was not adopted. The question being: "Shall Amendment No. 5 be adopted?" The roll was taken with the following result: 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1581 CSSB 140(FIN) Second Reading Amendment No. 5 YEAS: 19 NAYS: 21 EXCUSED: 0 ABSENT: 0 Yeas: Armstrong, Carrick, Dibert, Edgmon, Fields, Foster, Galvin, Gray, Groh, Hannan, Himschoot, Josephson, McCormick, Mears, Mina, Ortiz, Schrage, Story, Stutes Nays: Allard, Baker, Carpenter, Coulombe, Cronk, Eastman, C.Johnson, D.Johnson, McCabe, McKay, Prax, Rauscher, Ruffridge, Saddler, Shaw, Stapp, Sumner, Tilton, Tomaszewski, Vance, Wright And so, Amendment No. 5 was not adopted. Amendment No. 6 was not offered. Amendment No. 7 was offered by Representative Mears: Page 1, following line 9: Insert: "AS 14.09.010(a) is repealed and reenacted to read: (a) A school district that provides student transportation services for the transportation of students who reside a distance from established schools is eligible to receive funding for operating or subcontracting the operation of the transportation system for students to and from the schools within the student's transportation service area. Subject to appropriation, the amount of funding provided by the state for operating the student transportation system is the amount of a school district's ADM, less the ADM for the district's correspondence programs during the current fiscal year, multiplied by the per student amount for the school district as follows, for the school years beginning July 1, 2023: DISTRICT PER STUDENT AMOUNT Alaska Gateway $2,536 Aleutians East 378 Anchorage 531 Annette Island 222 Bering Strait 60 Bristol Bay 3,257 Chatham 342 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1582 Copper River 1,934 Cordova 409 Craig 515 Delta/Greely 2,019 Denali 2,203 Dillingham 1,484 Fairbanks 995 Galena 310 Haines 763 Hoonah 364 Iditarod 258 Juneau 735 Kake 331 Kashunamiut 6 Kenai Peninsula 1,115 Ketchikan 886 Klawock 712 Kodiak Island 974 Kuspuk 797 Lake and Peninsula 468 Lower Kuskokwim 338 Lower Yukon 1 Matanuska-Susitna 1,109 Nenana 716 Nome 757 North Slope 1,365 Northwest Arctic 30 Pelican 88 Petersburg 457 Saint Mary's 235 Sitka 522 Skagway 44 Southeast Island 1,408 Southwest Region 728 Tanana 581 Unalaska 790 Valdez 897 Wrangell 854 Yakutat 907 Yukon Flats 322 2024-02-21 House Journal Page 1583 Yukon/Koyukuk 365 Yupiit 2. 200(b) is amended to read: (b) Costs that may be claimed by a district for reimbursement under (a) of this section are (1) one round trip on the least expensive means of transportation between the student's community of residence and the school during the school year if the district expends money for the trip; and (2) a per-pupil monthly stipend to cover room and board expenses as determined by the department on a regional basis and not to exceed the following amounts: (A) for the Southeast Region (Region I), $1,845 [$1,230]; (B) for the Southcentral Region (Region II), $1,800 [$1,200]; (C) for the Interior Region (Region III), $2,178 [$1,452]; (D) for the Southwest Region (Region IV), $2,264 [$1,509]; (E) for the Northern Remote Region (Region V), $2,664 [$1,776]". Representative Mears moved and asked unanimous consent that Amendment No. 7 be adopted. There was objection. Representative Mears moved and asked unanimous consent to withdraw Amendment No. 7. There being no objection, it was so ordered. Amendment Nos. 8-16 were not offered. The Speaker stated that, without objection, the House would recess to a call of the Chair; and so, the House recessed at 7:13 p.m.