A bill strengthening the ability of the state’s legislative auditors to obtain information “in the form or format requested” will become law after the Alaska Legislature on Saturday voted to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of the measure on a vote of 43-16. Lawmakers have said the somewhat obscure policy is significant in the face of missing oil tax information.

Senate Bill 183 cleared the Legislature in May on a 49-10 vote. In an op-ed jointly authored on July 28 by Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, and Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, they characterize it as a necessary move to “address a serious and ongoing problem.” They said Dunleavy’s administration has since 2020 “withheld essential audit information from the Legislature, obscuring the accuracy of potentia

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