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Post by Logan on Apr 4, 2017 2:46:58 GMT -6
Alaska lawmakers are inching toward overtime again. Is the 90-day limit defunct?JUNEAU — Amid widely diverging opinions in the Capitol about the proper length of the legislative session, most lawmakers seem to agree that the state's budget crisis has stretched the 90-day limit to its breaking point. "The 90-day session is the law of the land," House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, said in an interview Monday. "But this session, we have extraordinary challenges in front of us that I think the public deserves the Legislature to take a very deliberative approach to." In other words: "It seems more likely than not that we would go past the 90-day session at this point." Three weeks before their deadline, lawmakers are beginning to acknowledge the obvious — they're unlikely to leave April 16, the 90th day. It's a concession that comes after two straight years in which the Legislature took months of extra time to finish its work. Read more: www.adn.com/politics/alaska-legislature/2017/03/28/alaska-lawmakers-are-inching-toward-overtime-again-so-is-their-90-day-limit-defunct/
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