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GOP House and Demo Senate Went
Along With Egan’s Wish List for 1963
By Virginia Sims
Associated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU W — A Republican
House and Democratic Senate went
I along pretty well with Gov. Wm.
I Egan’s wish list of 1963.
I Right behind the budget in ma
jor problems facing the first ses
sion of the third legislature, was
the organizations of boroughs.
Egan asked for what would have
amounted to an extension of the
powers of the present school and
public utility districts beyond the
July 1 cutoff date now in the law,
and powers for the Board of Edu
cation to incorporate those districts
which could qualify as second class
boroughs.
The legislature went him one
better, and passed a bill which
j provides for the mandatory incor
! poration of eight major popula
, tion districts in the state by next
! Jan. 1. It also sweetened the pot
by adding transitional grants of;
state lands and cash for all bor- j
oughs.
one issue which was expected
to develop—that of pre-registra
tion of voters — got as far as the
Senate, but no further.
Egan sent down a bill which
would have required pre-registra
tion of voters only in incorporated
cities or boroughs where 3,000
votes or more were cast in the
preceding general election.
The House approved a redraft
ed bill requiring statewide pre
registration, only to have the Sen
ate wrap up all election code
changes in a single measure, from
which pre-registration was point
edly omitted.
However, another controversial
! issue, the regulation of all public
! utilities by the Public Service
Commission, except for those whicli
are owned by municipalities, clear
ed the legislature in its dying hours
For the third year in a row
j Egan was denied a three-bill em
ployment security compensatio
bundle which has been high on h;
list of wants. The bills would hav
extended ESC coverage to stat
employes, extended the benefi
period from 26 to 28 weeks, anc
upped the basic benefit amourn
from $45 to $50 a week.
The latter bill passed the House,
but was killed in the Senate. After
that, the other two stayed put in
the House Finance Committee.
Two other measures requested
by Egan also remained in the
Finance Committee. They would
have provided a $238,000 state pro
gram of major medical insurance
for state employes.
Lawmakers, however, went along
with Egan’s requests in the field
of education.
They passed a bill implementing
the Public School Foundation Act
of 1962 by setting the local tax
effort required of school districts
at an amount equal to a 3.5 mill
levy on the full value of taxable
real and personal property.
They also granted teachers a
pay raise which will cost the
state about $1.3 million in fiscal
1964, close to what the governor
asked; provided for advisory
boards for state-operated schools,
and made requested adjustments
in the teachers’ retirement system.
Along the health and welfare
line, the legislature approved ex
panded aid to the blind, set up a
program of aid to the permanently
and totally disabled, and revised
the aid to dependent children laws,
all of which puts the state in a
better position to receive federal
aid.
However, Egan’s request for a
senatorial committee to study all
aspects of problems in connection
with the location of the principal
offices of state government — a
nice way of describing the capital
relocation issue — hit the skids
in the House.
After the lower chamber amend
ed the bill so that the committee
would be made up of both House
and Senate lawmakers, it packed
it off to the Judiciary Committee
where it remained fixed through
adjournment.
Lawmakers gave the nod to
Alaska participation in the 1964
65 New York World’s Fair and
appropriated $350,000 for the con
struction of an exhibit and opera
tion through the first year of the
fair.
They also approved creation of
an Alaska Centennial Commission,
plus a $50,000 appropriation; and
a Human Rights Commission, with
a $25,000 price tag.
And they authorized the issuance
of $2,200,000 in revenue bonds for
the University of Alaska for the
construction of a student dormitory
and dining complex, and set up
the mechanics for the sale of $2.2
million in general obligation
bonds approved by the voters last
i year, for the construction of a vo
| cational school in the Kodiak
i Aleutians Senate District.
1 They also provided for the opera
' i tion between Cordova and Valdez
’ I of the state ferry Chilkat, replaced
’ I on its old southeast Alaska run by
s the new Marine Highway system.
e I In his budget, Egan told the leg
3 / islature that the leasing of new
11 court facilities in Anchorage and
I I Fairbanks was, in his view, “an
: I unnecessary cost of government.”
With that it mind, the Senate
gave its approval to companion
bills which would have paved the
I way for state acquisition of the
buildings, as well as other struc
tures used by the state.
When the measure hit the
House, however, what had been
described as a “friendly condem
1 nation suit” to acquire the build
ings drew screams of protest from
the firm which constructed the
buildings for lease to the state.
Neither of the bills re-appeared
from the House Local Government
Committee.
In his “state of the state” mes
sage, Egan asked for the passage
of an insurance code, a marriage
code, anti-trust legislation and a
modified water use bill.
Only the marriage code was ap
proved by both chambers, while
the other measures were held oyer
for study until the second meeting
of this legislature, next year.
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