SENATE BILL NO. 22 "An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state government and for certain programs; capitalizing funds; amending appropriations; repealing appropriations; making supplemental appropriations and reappropriations, and 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." 9:05:09 AM Co-Chair Hoffman informed that the committee would take up a committee substitute (CS) for SB 22, which would have some technical changes. Co-Chair MacKinnon MOVED to ADOPT proposed committee substitute for SB 22, Work Draft 30-GS1855\D (Wallace, 3/2/17). Co-Chair Hoffman OBJECTED for discussion. Co-Chair Hoffman asked staff to explain the technical changes in the bill. He remarked that the committee was trying to get the operating budget completed as effectively and efficiently as possible so as to devote more time to the piece of legislation associated with restructuring the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program. 9:06:33 AM JAMES ARMSTRONG, STAFF, SENATOR LYMAN HOFFMAN, explained that the committee had not received the budget bill from the other body, but would be working with the Legislative Finance Division (LFD) and Legal Services to clean up the bill. He stated that the committee would be using SB 22 and SB 24 as the vehicles to develop the budget; and when the bills from the other body came to the committee, it would make the corresponding changes. He recalled that the committee had done the same thing the previous session. He asserted that the LFD Director and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) could speak to the technical conforming changes that had been made and were explicated in the document "Summary of Changes between Governor's Operating Bill and CSSB22 (FIN)" (copy on file). DAVID TEAL, DIRECTOR, LEGISLATIVE FINANCE DIVISION, explained that the CS before the committee was for all practical purposes the governor's bill, redrafted in Legal Services Division language rather than language from the Department of Law. He specified that the bill appropriated the same amount of money for the same purposes, and from the same fund sources. He thought it was easily discernable that the changes to the bill were confined to date changes, rearrangements, and small technical changes. He thought that the changes would make the process easier for LFD and Legal Services, as well as for the committee. When the committee developed the next CS, it would be much easier to discern any substantive changes from the rearrangements and other technical adjustments. 9:08:58 AM PAT PITNEY, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, stated that the administration concurred with the changes. She stated that the CS before the committee did exactly what had been proposed in the governor's budget. Co-Chair Hoffman WITHDREW his objection. A roll call vote was taken on the motion. IN FAVOR: Bishop, Dunleavy, Micciche, von Imhof, Hoffman, MacKinnon OPPOSED: Senator Olson was absent from the vote. The MOTION PASSED (6/0). There being NO further OBJECTION, Work Draft 30-GS1855\D was ADOPTED. SB 22 was HEARD and HELD in committee for further consideration. 9:10:12 AM AT EASE 9:11:16 AM RECONVENED Co-Chair Hoffman stated that there was a CS to consider for SB 24.