ALASKA'S NEWSPAPER

| Updated: 7:49 PM

House passes $8.1 billion state operating budget

JUNEAU -- The Alaska House has passed an $8.1 billion state operating budget.

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The measure, which contains funding conditions for state natural gas pipeline work, now goes to the Senate.

Democrats opposed as shortsighted a provision that offers upfront 30 percent of the money Gov. Sean Parnell wanted for legal, analytical and other work to help the state advance a proposed gas pipeline.

But Republican Mike Hawker calls it fiscally prudent. He says it's not obstructionist and that the rest would come with a "successful" open season.

Some lawmakers previously had chided Parnell's administration for not making clear its need for the millions it wanted for pipeline-related work.

The proposal includes $4.3 billion in state agency general fund spending.

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