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Digest No. 39/19 - July 12, 2019 There seems to be no haste in the special session. The Senate has adjourned until Friday, the House until Wednesday (today). SB-19, the capital bill is under hearing in the House House and Senate adjourn until Wednesday Finance Committee through May 26, Sunday. The Senate has SB 1001 under hearing in Senate Finance. This is the bill that repeals last year’s the 2018 future funding for K-12 schools and After technical sessions today the House and Senate have adjourned until Wednesday, reenacts it as current years funding. Previously, the governor has said he would not exercises presumably to provide time for talks with the governor and with dissident legislators, his power of line-item veto is lawmakers pulled future funding back to the current budget. meaning those in Wasilla. As of yet we see no trial balloons. What legislators want to see is Interestingly, the Legislature may bring suit against the governor, but the governor may an expanded call, namely a capital appropriations bill not bring suit against the Legislature. dealing with the unfunded portion of SB 19. Next week: Will school funds flow to the districts? The sweep creates more unknowns - This is another complication thrown on the table by Dunleavy and his OMB Director Donna Arduin. The sweep pulls funding balances of various accounts back into the State General Fund. This is a reinterpretation of past practices. We suspect this was something Dunleavy/Arduin found easy to generalize, but the devils are in the details. We understand There are issues of monumental importance revolving around this special session, but the that OMB is having problems with the details of the sweep and are also trying to do a little overriding issue is that of assault on the Legislature. By use of his budget veto the governor cherry picking. is legislating, destrouying institutions buikt by The coming special session of the Legislature is really Who did it: Voting “No on he CBR law over manyb dedades. about abuse of power by our governor. The governor is • Unbelievably, so far Arduin has refused invitation by Sen. Finance using his line-item veto to destroy institutions, he Rep. , R-Anchorage. Cochair Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, to explain the sweep of funds. University being the nprine example. Rep. , R- Anchorage - Continued on next page • The response attributed to Dunleavy and Arduin is: “We will get back Rep. , R-Anchorage He is legislating by destroying. to you later. Rep. , R-Anchorage Rep. , R-Anchorage This goes well beyond Republicans and Democrats, minorities and Spotlight on any future veto override attempts: Given that there may be more vetoes Rep. Josh Revak, R-Anchorage majorities, the size of the dividend, or a host of other issues. \ to overcome, the pressure will be on Eagle River area lawmakers siding with Dunleavy on

Rep. , R-Homer his budget vetoes. These are: Sen. Lora Reinbold, Sharon Jackson, and Kelly Merrick. Also There’s an overriding issue here. It’s about whether the Legislature Other no votes: All six representatives will stand up for itself as an institution, as the peoples in the spotlight will be Anchorage Reps. Laddie Shaw, Josh Revak, and Sara Rasmussen. from the Mat-Su. representatives. - More in reports next week!

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