Dunleavy says a PFD special session is still coming but that it’s complicated by vacancy fight
Despite pushing a cuts-heavy budget, Dunleavy says there’s “plenty of money” for supplemental PFD.
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Facing pressure over federal highway funds, Dunleavy calls legislators back to Juneau
The state has two weeks to put up the matching money for $1 billion or lose out on it entirely.
Legislative leadership bucks Wasilla special session, pushes to meet in Juneau and Anchorage
The move adds the capital budget to the agenda, too.
The special session is over, but legislators will be back in July to resolve PFD and capital budget funding
They’ll be due back in Wasilla on July 8.
Dunleavy’s state-funded ads targeting legislators may violate state ethics act: Reports
There’s a difference between legal and ethical.
A new House bill would cobble the money together for one last full dividend
The legislation would require the Legislature rethink and lower future dividends.
House Finance turns attention from prison sentences to drug treatment in continued effort to tackle crime
Legislators in the House would rather act sooner rather than later to get serious about treating addiction.
AKLEG Recap, Week 13: Legislature nearing deal on bill to restructure the Alaska Permanent Fund
The conference committee on the bill met after nearly a year of deadlock on the measure and requested powers that would let it rewrite key parts of the bill.
House plans to stick around after Senate adjournment
The move is in protest of the Senate’s abrupt adjournment on Friday, where it passed Senate Bill 54 with a glaring constitutional problem and adjourned.
Legislators can’t honestly say SB 91 is to blame for the rise in crime, but it hasn’t stopped them
Monday kicked off the fourth special session and legislators are already waist-deep into the criminal justice portion of Gov. Bill Walker’s agenda. The House Majority…