The Alaska House advanced a targeted spending bill Wednesday, intended to address the state’s unprecedented food stamps backlog and a shortage of public defenders.
the state’s 40-year-old definition of sexual assault so that it would be a crime to have sex with someone after they withheld or withdrew consent. Previously, force or the threat of force was needed in addition to saying “no” for a sexual assault charge to be filed.passed on the final day of the last legislative session without any funding attached.
Josephson said his prosecutor proposal was connected to the provisions already in the bills like “shoelaces are to your shoe.” In a committee hearing, Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome, said that he supported additional funding for prosecutors related to sexual assault, but that there was a lot of “skittishness” about adding any more spending to the bill.
To spend from the Constitutional Budget Reserve requires support from three-quarters of lawmakers — a high hurdle that has not been overcome for the budget since 2020, with consistent opposition from members of the former Republican House minority.
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