Justin Ruffridge
43:55 - 45:03
"In effect, by taking out Section 3, you are saying that the Senate version did not allow AVT to be required to apply to required local contribution, and the House version did not require AVT to apply to local contribution, but now you're saying by the removal of Section 3 that AVT can apply to require local contribution, thereby making a substantive change in this conference committee to the effect of the bill on required local contribution."
“In effect, by taking out Section 3, you are saying that the Senate version did not allow AVT to be required to apply to required local contribution, and the House version did not require AVT to apply to local contribution, but now you're saying by the removal of Section 3 that AVT can apply to require local contribution, thereby making a substantive change in this conference committee to the effect of the bill on required local contribution.”
- Speaker
- Justin Ruffridge
- Timestamp
- 43:55 – 45:03
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- July 2, 2026
From the transcript
Chair. Follow-up, Representative Ruffridge. Thank you. So in effect, what you're saying is that even though the— even though— so Section 3 was not present in the House version, and that is because required local contribution and AVT were not linked in the House version at all, then the Senate version passed as an amendment on the Senate floor Section 3 to essentially do the exact same thing as the House, which was to have AVT not apply to required local contribution. So what— in effect, by taking out Section 3, you are saying that the Senate version did not allow AVT to be required to apply to required local contribution, and the House version did not require AVT to apply to local contribution, but now you're saying by the removal of Section 3 that AVT can apply to require local contribution, thereby making a substantive change in this conference committee to the effect of the bill on required local contribution.
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