07/19/2013 01:30 PM Senate FINANCE

                 SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE                                                                                       
         ANCHORAGE LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION OFFICE                                                                               
                       July 19, 2013                                                                                            
                         1:40 p.m.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Note: The following meeting convened in the Anchorage                                                                           
Legislative Information Office and was teleconferenced in                                                                       
Juneau.                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
1:40:15 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CALL TO ORDER                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Meyer called the Senate Finance Committee meeting                                                                      
to order at 1:40 p.m.                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS PRESENT                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Senator Kevin Meyer, Co-Chair                                                                                                   
Senator Click Bishop                                                                                                            
Senator Mike Dunleavy                                                                                                           
Senator Donny Olson                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
PRESENT VIA TELECONFERENCE                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Senator Pete Kelly, Co-Chair                                                                                                    
Senator Anna Fairclough, Vice-Chair                                                                                             
Senator Lyman Hoffman                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
MEMBERS ABSENT                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
None                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
ALSO PRESENT                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Representative Andy Josephson                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SUMMARY                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
^Executive Session: RFP 593 State Managed Health Insurance                                                                      
Program for Alaska Public School Employees                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
1:41:03 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Meyer discussed the agenda.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
Senator Dunleavy MOVED that the  Senate Finance Committee go                                                                    
into   executive  session   under  Uniform   Rule  22(b)(1),                                                                    
discussion  of matters,  the  immediate  knowledge of  which                                                                    
could  adversely affect  the finances  of a  government unit                                                                    
and 22(b)(3)  discussion of  a matter that  may, by  law, be                                                                    
required to be confidential.                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
1:42:14 PM                                                                                                                    
EXECUTIVE SESSION                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
2:55:08 PM                                                                                                                    
RECONVENED                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Meyer relayed  that the  Senate Finance  Committee                                                                    
issued a  Request for  Proposal (RFP) on  June 24,  2013 for                                                                    
the  purpose  of soliciting  proposals  for  the purpose  of                                                                    
conducting  an  actuarial  analysis of  the  current  health                                                                    
benefit  plans  for  each  of the  53  school  districts  in                                                                    
Alaska. He  continued that  the RFP was  for the  purpose of                                                                    
considering consolidating public  school employees in Alaska                                                                    
under  a  state  managed  group health  insurance  plan.  He                                                                    
relayed  that four  responses had  been  received. He  asked                                                                    
Senator Bishop to  make a motion related  to the committee's                                                                    
recommendation.                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Senator  Bishop  MOVED  that the  Senate  Finance  Committee                                                                    
request the Legislative Affairs Agency  to issue a Notice of                                                                    
Intent to  award a contract to  Hay Group in the  amount not                                                                    
to  exceed  $300,027.00 for  the  purpose  of conducting  an                                                                    
actuarial analysis  of the current health  benefit plans for                                                                    
each  of the  53  school  districts in  Alaska  and for  the                                                                    
purpose   of   considering   consolidating   public   school                                                                    
employees  in  Alaska  under a  state-managed  group  health                                                                    
insurance program.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
ADJOURNMENT                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
2:56:59 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
The meeting was adjourned at 2:56 p.m.