Alaska Legislative Council Ex Rel. Alaska State Legislature v. Knowles

OPINION

CARPENETI, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The Alaska Legislative Council appeals the superior court’s denial of its challenge to former Governor Tony Knowles’s veto of, and refusal to implement, Senate Bill 7, which transfers land and the income derived from that land to the University of Alaska. The legislative council argues that the superior court erred in holding that S.B. 7 constitutes an appropriation subject to the governor’s enhanced veto power requiring a three-fourths vote by the legislature in order to override the veto under article II, section 16 of the Alaska Constitution.…