Alaska governor vetoes amount of this year s oil check
July 1, 2021
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed the amount of this year’s oil wealth fund check paid to nearly every single Alaskan, which his office called a paltry amount.
The Legislature had proposed a Permanent Fund Dividend of about $1,100 in the budget but tied part of the funding to the constitutional budget reserve and another reserve that was subject to a three-quarter approval vote. However, that vote failed, leaving the dividend at $525, the lowest amount in years.
Dunleavy in a statement ahead of a Thursday news conference called it an “arbitrary PFD amount that doesn’t come close to assisting Alaskans who are still recovering from the pandemic.”
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The Alaska House of Representatives is expected to take a procedural vote Monday to pass a complete budget and avoid a government shutdown this week.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has refused to sign the state budget, labelling it âdefectiveâ after the House did not have the votes to adopt the July 1 start date for the fiscal 2022 state spending plan, known as the effective date clause.
House Speaker Louise Stutes, a Kodiak Republican, maintained that the governor has the authority to sign the budget bill without the effective date clause.
âThis is not a drama vote,â Republican Rep. Bart LeBon said Sunday. âIt is a procedural routine vote. I think that come tomorrow (Monday), we will pass an effective date vote.â
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