Just days after signing a bill that the courts said would provide certainty for the state’s scholarship program, the Dunleavy administration is asking the fund be left in limbo.
“It’s all just discretionary. It’s all just words. The Legislature can honor it or not honor if it wants. It’s not like signing a contract with a contractor,” argued the state’s attorney. “It’s not the same thing at all.”
On a vote of 31-7.
The vaccination money can be tapped to respond to disease outbreaks. The state announced a measles case just days earlier.