HA57 would amend HB69, Alaska’s budget bill for fiscal year 2021-22, by directing state agencies to identify additional means of cutting spending so that per capita state spending is reduced to not more than twice the national average by the end of FY 2023.
The House failed to pass HA57 on May 10, 2021, by a vote of 12 to 27. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because Alaska routinely has the nation’s highest annual per capita state spending, far above the national average. Much of this spending involves the use of federal taxpayer money for purposes not authorized under Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution.