05/13/2003 04:41 PM Senate FIN

                                                                                                                                
     SENATE BILL NO. 100                                                                                                        
     "An  Act making capital  appropriations  and reappropriations;                                                             
     capitalizing a fund;  making appropriations under art. IX, sec.                                                            
     17(c),   Constitution  of  the   State  of  Alaska,   from  the                                                            
     constitutional   budget reserve  fund;  and  providing  for  an                                                            
     effective date."                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
This  was the  fifthteenth  hearing  for  this  bill in  the  Senate                                                            
Finance Committee.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Amendment #17: This amendment  adds a new "Ketchikan Gateway Borough                                                            
-  Ketchikan  Shipyard  (ED  1)"  component  and  $1,500,000  Alaska                                                            
Industrial  Development  and  Export  Authority   (AIDEA)  Corporate                                                            
Receipts  appropriation   to  the   Grants  to  Municipalities   (AS                                                            
37.05.315)  Budget Request  Unit (BRU) on page  3, lines 21  and 22.                                                            
Accompanying explanatory language reads as follows.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
     This funding  will match an additional  $7.5 million  currently                                                            
     available  ($5.0 million of federal  receipts, $2.5  million in                                                            
     local  Borough  funding,  and  $1.0 million  in  general  funds                                                            
     previously appropriated.)                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Senator Taylor  moved to withdraw  Amendment #17 from consideration                                                             
as he explained  that a  funding source has  not been identified  to                                                            
support the amendment.                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
There  being  no  objection,   Amendment  #17  was  WITHDRAWN   from                                                            
consideration.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Senator Taylor moved to  report the bill, as amended, from Committee                                                            
with attached fiscal notes and individual recommendations.                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Wilken  objected to request  that his staff in conjunction                                                             
with  the Division  of  Legislative  Finance and  Legislative  Legal                                                            
Services be authorized  "to make appropriate technical changes while                                                            
drafting the committee  substitute in order to conform to amendments                                                            
that have been adopted."                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Senator  Taylor  offered  a  friendly amendment   to his  motion  to                                                            
authorize Co-Chair Wilken's staff to make technical changes.                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
There being  no objection, CS SB 100,  23-GS1003\Q, as amended,  was                                                            
REPORTED from Committee.