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Program Receipts Set-offs Make Budget Process More Flexible
| For Immediate Release: April 11, 2000 | |
| Contact: | Representative Norman Rokeberg at (907) 465-4968. |
Juneau -- The Alaska House of Representatives Tuesday passed House Bill 418, sponsored by the House Labor and Commerce Committee.
HB 418 places program receipts received by Occupational Licensing, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, the administrative charges the State receives for its role in the federal Community Development Quota program, and dive fishery management assessment receipts in separate accounts. These set-offs will enable agencies to perform activities for which funds are available but which are currently restricted by the budgetary process.
"HB 418 will help these State agencies meet their customer service goals," said Representative Norman Rokeberg (R-Anchorage), Chairman of the House Labor and Commerce Committee. "It will also help them live up to the expectations of the customers who pay the fees to run programs.
"For example, the State Board of Nursing wishes to continue an outreach program formerly funded by the federal government," Rokeberg said. "The nurses are willing to raise their licensing fees, but are prohibited from doing so because it would increase the 'budget gap.' HB 418 corrects that inequity."
HB 418 passed the House 34-3. A notice of reconsideration was filed.
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