Alaska House passes budget, leaving dividends at $525 for now

A program that provides financial assistance for  electricity in high-cost areas won’t be funded. Neither will state-sponsored university scholarships. 

Those programs and most of the dividend funding depended on three-quarters of the House members agreeing to draw money from the Constitutional Budget Reserve. That failed by six votes.

Originally reported by Andrew Kitchenman of KTOO and Alaska Public Media and published June 16, 2021.