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01/15/2024 09:00 AM House LEGISLATIVE BUDGET & AUDIT

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09:05:09 AM Start
09:06:06 AM Approval of Minutes
09:06:18 AM Executive Session
10:37:45 AM Final Audit Releases
10:39:12 AM Adjourn
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ I. Approval of Minutes TELECONFERENCED
a. December 13, 2023
II. Executive Session
Final Audit Release
a. Alaska Commission on Aging, Sunset
b. Marijuana Control Broad, Sunset
c. Board of Massage Therapists, Sunset
d. Department of Labor and Workforce Development,
Technical Vocational Education Program
e. Department of Family and Community Services,
Office of Children Services: Compliance with
Foster Care Reform Laws, Part Two
                    ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE                                                                                  
             LEGISLATIVE BUDGET AND AUDIT COMMITTEE                                                                           
                        January 15, 2024                                                                                        
                           9:05 a.m.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS PRESENT                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Representative Ben Carpenter, Chair                                                                                             
Representative DeLena Johnson                                                                                                   
Representative Sarah Vance                                                                                                      
Representative Frank Tomaszewski                                                                                                
Representative Andy Josephson                                                                                                   
Senator Bert Stedman, Vice Chair                                                                                                
Senator Bill Wielechowski                                                                                                       
Senator James Kaufman                                                                                                           
Senator Scott Kawasaki                                                                                                          
Senator Click Bishop (alternate)                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS ABSENT                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Representative Mike Cronk                                                                                                       
Senator Lyman Hoffman                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE CALENDAR                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
APPROVAL OF MINUTES                                                                                                             
EXECUTIVE SESSION                                                                                                               
FINAL AUDIT RELEASES                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
No previous action to record                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
WITNESS REGISTER                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
No witnesses to record                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
ACTION NARRATIVE                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
9:05:09 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  BEN  CARPENTER called  the  Legislative  Budget and  Audit                                                             
Committee  meeting  to  order  at   9:05  a.m.    Representatives                                                               
Tomaszewski,  Vance, Josephson,  D.  Johnson,  and Carpenter  and                                                               
Senators  Bishop, Wielechowski,  Kaufman,  Kawasaki, and  Stedman                                                               
were present at the call to order.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
^APPROVAL OF MINUTES                                                                                                            
                      APPROVAL OF MINUTES                                                                                   
                                                                                                                              
9:06:06 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR CARPENTER  announced the first  order of business  would be                                                               
the approval  of minutes.  He  then explained that since  not all                                                               
members had  viewed the  minutes of  12/13/23, approval  of those                                                               
minutes  would   be  postponed  to   the  next  meeting   of  the                                                               
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
^EXECUTIVE SESSION                                                                                                              
                       EXECUTIVE SESSION                                                                                    
                                                                                                                              
9:06:18 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR CARPETNER announced  that the next order  of business would                                                               
be executive session.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
9:06:28 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  STEDMAN  moved  and asked  unanimous  consent  that  the                                                               
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee  go into executive session                                                               
under Uniform  Rule 22(b)(3) for  the discussion of  matters that                                                               
may, by law,  be required to be confidential.   He asked that the                                                               
following persons remain in the  room or online:  the legislative                                                               
auditor and necessary  staff to the auditor;  any legislators not                                                               
on the  committee; staff for  legislators who are members  of the                                                               
committee;  and   House  Finance   staff  Helen   Phillips,  Reed                                                               
Gardinier,  Bree  Wylie,  and  Leah  Frasier.    There  being  no                                                               
objection, it was so ordered.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
9:08:10 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
The committee  took an at-ease from  9:08 a.m. to 10:36  a.m. for                                                               
the purpose  of executive session.   [The following  members were                                                               
present  going into  the at-ease:   Representatives  Tomaszewski,                                                               
Vance, Josephson, D. Johnson, and  Carpenter and Senators Bishop,                                                               
Wielechowski, Kaufman, Kawasaki, and Stedman.]                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
10:36:29 AM                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  CARPENTER   called  the   Legislative  Budget   and  Audit                                                               
Committee back to  order at 10:36 a.m.  Present  at the call back                                                               
to order  were Representatives Tomaszewski, Vance,  Josephson, D.                                                               
Johnson,  and   Carpenter  and  Senators   Bishop,  Wielechowski,                                                               
Kaufman, Kawasaki, and Stedman.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
^FINAL AUDIT RELEASES                                                                                                           
                      FINAL AUDIT RELEASES                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
10:37:45 AM                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR CARPENTER  announced the final  order of business  would be                                                               
final audit releases.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
10:37:57 AM                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  STEDMAN  moved that  the  Legislative  Budget and  Audit                                                               
Committee  release   the  final   public  audit  reports:     the                                                               
Department  of Health,  Alaska Commission  on Aging,  sunset; the                                                               
Department  of   Commerce,  Community  &   Economic  Development,                                                               
Marijuana  Control Board,  sunset;  the  Department of  Commerce,                                                               
Community &  Economic Development,  Board of  Massage Therapists,                                                               
sunset;  the  Department  of  Labor  and  Workforce  Development,                                                               
Technical  Vocational Education  Program; and  the Department  of                                                               
Family  and Community  Services,  Office  of Childrens'  Services                                                               
Compliance with Foster  Care Reform Laws, part two.   There being                                                               
no objection, it was so ordered.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
10:39:12 AM                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
ADJOURNMENT                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
There  being  no  further  business  before  the  committee,  the                                                               
Legislative Budget  and Audit Committee meeting  was adjourned at                                                               
10:39 a.m.                                                                                                                      

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