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...however, have been trying to temper expectations about its size.The operating budget is likely to end up in a conference committee. The version of the operating budget that passed the House included about $41 million less in unrestricted general...
...it passes the House, the Senate will either have to agree to changes made on that side or the bill will go to a conference committee, where House and Senate negotiators will try to iron out their differences.EDUCATION: Legislative leaders last...
...the oil tax bill, SB21, the House recedes from its changes or an agreement on the bill is reached by then in a conference committee. House Speaker Mike Chenault suggested it wasn't out of the realm of possibility that the Senate might simply...
...panel was "about as good a bill as we can afford."Once the bill passes the Senate, it is expected to go to conference committee, with House and Senate negotiators hammering out differences in their respective versions of the bill.Legislative...
...legislative session has been swift: Watch out, because the proceedings are set to pick up even more speed.Once a conference committee is named on the state operating budget - and that could happen as early as this week - the Legislature will fall...
...Stedman, R-Sitka, said.The Senate had the option of agreeing to changes made in the House or taking the bill to conference committee for additional work. The House passed its version of the bill about 13 hours earlier, just after 2 a.m. Sunday...
...budget, moving it to the Senate on Thursday. Now, we'll see what changes the Senate makes and then name a conference committee to work out the differences.Session has so far been focused primarily on moving bills through the system and getting...
...expressed misgivings, despite their votes, and the measure was reworked in the Senate. The House later rejected a conference committee compromise, and further efforts to save the program failed. Coastal communities sought a greater say in development...
...acknowledge if and when an oil tax measure makes it to a conference committee, it may not look at all like the original -- but the point of a conference committee is to resolve those differences. And we hope the...
...declining. Other outstanding bills, with just over a week left, include the state operating and capital budgets. A conference committee on the operating budget has been announced. The Senate Finance Committee is crafting a capital budget. Additional...