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08/16/2019 01:00 PM Senate LEGISLATIVE BUDGET & AUDIT

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01:03:05 PM Start
01:03:49 PM Executive Session
01:17:24 PM Adjourn
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Executive Session
Medicaid/CHIP Eligibility Audit -
Contract Amendments
                    ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE                                                                                  
             LEGISLATIVE BUDGET AND AUDIT COMMITTEE                                                                           
                        August 16, 2019                                                                                         
                           12:56 p.m.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS PRESENT                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Representative Chris Tuck, Chair                                                                                                
Senator Click Bishop, Vice Chair                                                                                                
Representative Neal Foster                                                                                                      
Representative Andy Josephson                                                                                                   
Representative Ivy Spohnholz                                                                                                    
Senator Cathy Giessel                                                                                                           
Senator Lyman Hoffman                                                                                                           
Representative Jennifer Johnston (alternate)                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS ABSENT                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Representative Mark Neuman                                                                                                      
Senator Bert Stedman                                                                                                            
Senator Natasha von Imhof                                                                                                       
Senator Peter Micciche (alternate)                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE CALENDAR                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
EXECUTIVE SESSION                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
No previous action to record                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
WITNESS REGISTER                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
No witnesses to record                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
ACTION NARRATIVE                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
1:03:05 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  CHRIS  TUCK  called  the   Legislative  Budget  and  Audit                                                             
Committee  meeting  to  order  at  12:56  p.m.    Representatives                                                               
Foster, Spohnholz,  Johnston (alternate),  and Tuck  and Senators                                                               
Giessel, Hoffman,  and Bishop  (via teleconference)  were present                                                               
at the call to order.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
^Executive Session                                                                                                              
                       Executive Session                                                                                    
                                                                                                                              
1:03:49 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  BISHOP  moved  that the  Legislative  Budget  and  Audit                                                               
Committee go into executive session  under Uniform Rule 22(b)(3),                                                               
discussion  of  matters that  may,  by  law,  be required  to  be                                                               
confidential.  He requested that  the following persons remain in                                                               
the  room  or  on  the  phone line:    Kris  Curtis,  Legislative                                                               
Auditor;  any necessary  staff to  the  legislative auditor;  any                                                               
legislators not  on the committee;  and staff to  any legislators                                                               
on the committee.  There being no objection, it was so ordered.                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
1:04:26 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
The committee  took an at-ease  from 1:04  p.m. to 1:15  p.m. for                                                               
the purpose of the executive session.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
1:15:40 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR  TUCK called  the Legislative  Budget  and Audit  Committee                                                               
back to  order at 1:15  p.m.  Present at  the call back  to order                                                               
were  Representatives  Josephson,   Foster,  Spohnholz,  Johnston                                                               
(alternate), and  Tuck and Senators Giessel,  Hoffman, and Bishop                                                               
(via teleconference).                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
1:15:45 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  BISHOP  moved  and  asked  unanimous  consent  that  the                                                               
Legislative Budget and Audit  Committee authorize the legislative                                                               
auditor to amend, as needed,  the two contracts with Berry, Dunn,                                                               
McNeil,  & Parker,  LLC., related  to the  audit of  Medicaid and                                                               
Children's  Health   Insurance  program  eligibility   that  were                                                               
authorized at the May 10, 2019,  meeting, as long as the contract                                                               
amounts  do not  exceed  the contract  amounts  approved by  this                                                               
committee on May 10, 2019.                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
1:16:28 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
The committee took a brief at-ease at 1:16 p.m.                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
1:17:03 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR TUCK  announced that there  being no objection,  the motion                                                               
was so ordered.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
1:17:24 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
ADJOURNMENT                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
There being no further business before the committee, the                                                                       
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee meeting was adjourned at                                                                 
1:17 p.m.                                                                                                                       

Document Name Date/Time Subjects
LBAC Memo RE Procurement 8-13-19.pdf JBUD 8/16/2019 1:00:00 PM
LB&A