Alaska Legislature: Senate Judiciary FSC, 4/15/26, 5:15pm

Okay, I'd like to call the Senate Judiciary— Senate Finance Subcommittee on the Judiciary to order. The time now is 5:45 PM on April 15th, 2026. I'm joined today by the Chair, Senator Olson, Senator Myers, and Senator Clayman will be on his way soon. Myself, Chair Kawasaki, we do have a quorum to conduct business. I'd like to thank Chloe Miller, the moderator today.

We just have one item on today's agenda. I'm sorry, a couple of items on today's agenda. Budget closeout, legislative finance is available for any questions. Kelly Good, staff to Chair Olson, will go over the changes in the budget outlined. Thank you, Senator Kawasaki.

For the record, my name is Kelly Good, staff to Senator Olson. In front of you is the narrative closeout report. The Senate Finance Budget Subcommittee for the Judiciary submits the following. For funds, the unrestricted general funds are $159,228,000. Designated general funds, zero.

Other funds, $2,812,000. Federal funds, $1,805,000. For a total of $163,845,000.

The positions, uh, full-time are 755, 38 part-time, and 6 temporary. So a total of 799. The Senate Finance Subcommittee for the Judiciary reviewed the budget request, and the following are their actions. They approved the judiciary's original budget request and included 3 additional requests that the judiciary made that were not included in the original budget. That's $600 million for increase of leases, $115 million for salary and benefits increases for the therapeutic court paralegals, and $6,000 for travel.

The Senate Finance Subcommittee did not accept the House increment of $600— $363,000 for the visitor case log. There are no organizational structure change and there is no wordage for this. And I think that it was $600,000— Yes. $600,300,000, $115,500, And $6,000. Yeah, that's better.

Decibel points. The courts are happy. All right. We thank you very much. Are there any questions for Kelly?

Okay. Seeing none, I will go ahead and make the motion. I move the FY27 operating budget for the judiciary from subcommittee with the attached legislative finance budget action sheet dated 4/15/26. I move that To give the Legislative Finance Division the ability to make any technical or conforming changes. Are there any objections?

Hearing and seeing none, the motion carries. That concludes today's meeting of the Finance Subcommittee on the Judiciary, and we are adjourned at 5:48.