JUNEAU — The conference committee charged with resolving the difference between Alaska House and Senate budget proposals held its organization meeting Monday.
House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham, and Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, each appointed three members to the committee last week.
Of the six members, four are the finance committee co-chairs in their respective chambers: Reps. Neal Foster, D-Nome, and Paul Seaton, R-Homer, and Sens. Anna MacKinnon, R-Eagle River, and Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel. All of those lawmakers belong to their respective majority caucus, which is largely Democratic in the House and all-Republican in the Senate, with the exception of Hoffman.
The two minority members on the conference committee are Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, and Sen. Donny Olson, D-Golovin.