KEVIN F. McCOY MARY C. GEDDES 1113 N Street Anchorage, Alaska 99501 l<[email protected](907) 360-2832 COPY <Original Received JUL 1 8 2019 Clerk of the Trial Courts IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE KEVIN F. McCOY and MARY C. GEDDES, Plaintiffs, vs. MICHAEL J. DUNLEAVY, Governor of the State of Alaska, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 3AN-19-08301 Cl ) ) ) ) REPLY TO DEFENDANT'S OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION In this pleading, Plaintiffs jointly respond to the Defendant's opposition to their Motion for Expedited Consideration. This matter should proceed on an expedited basis because: • Contrary to Defendant Dunleavy's claim, Plaintiffs· as citizen-taxpayers - and their fellow citizens of Alaska- have suffered irreparable harm stemming from the Legislature's lost opportunity to timely reconsider, as a single body, the Defendant's 182 line-item vetoes at a lawfully convened Special Session. (Appendix D, the record of the Alaska Legislature, 31st Legislature (2019-2020) Bill History/Action for Legislature for CCS CCHB 39 titled "Approp.: Operating Budget/Loans/Funds," showing "VETO Reply to Defendant's Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Expedited Consideration Kevin F. McCoy & Mary C. Geddes v. Michael J. Dunleavy, Governor NO. 3AN-19-08301 Cl Page 1 of 4
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KEVIN F. McCOY MARY C. GEDDES 1113 N Street Anchorage, Alaska 99501 l<[email protected] (907) 360-2832
COPY <Original Received
JUL 1 8 2019
Clerk of the Trial Courts
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE
KEVIN F. McCOY and MARY C. GEDDES,
Plaintiffs, vs.
MICHAEL J. DUNLEAVY, Governor of the State of Alaska,
Defendant.
) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 3AN-19-08301 Cl ) ) ) )
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REPLY TO DEFENDANT'S OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION
In this pleading, Plaintiffs jointly respond to the Defendant's opposition to
their Motion for Expedited Consideration. This matter should proceed on an
expedited basis because:
• Contrary to Defendant Dunleavy's claim, Plaintiffs· as citizen-taxpayers -
and their fellow citizens of Alaska- have suffered irreparable harm
stemming from the Legislature's lost opportunity to timely reconsider, as a
single body, the Defendant's 182 line-item vetoes at a lawfully convened
Special Session. (Appendix D, the record of the Alaska Legislature, 31st
Legislature (2019-2020) Bill History/Action for Legislature for CCS CCHB
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SUSTAINED," page 1, and entry for "7/10/2019 at 2019 "GOVERNOR
LINE ITEM VETOES SUSTAINED Y37 N1 E4 A18"). The Governor's
unlawful Executive Proclamation caused at least 18 members of the
Legislature to go MIA and deprived the Plaintiffs and the citizens of Alaska
of their attendance, any engagement in the collective deliberative
legislative process, and ultimately their vote of record on re~onsideration.
• There is nothing in the Governor's Supplemental Executive Proclamation
of July 17, 2019, (Appendix E) that redresses the Legislature's lost
opportunity to consider the vetoes to the operating budget as a body, in
accordance with Article II, section 16, of the Alaska Constitution.
• The issues presented in the lawsuit are noncomplex because they involve
only a single state constitutional question, i.e. whether the Governor's
Executive Proclamation calling the Legislature to a Second Special
Session in Wasilla violate the separation of powers doctrine
notwithstanding the language in AS 24.05.1 OO(b) allowing the Governor to
"designate" the location of a special session. If the Proclamation is
unconstitutional, the court would necessarily find that the Second Special
Session was unlawfully convened. This ruling would invalidate the
Governor's 182 line-items vetoes inasmuch as the constitutionally-
required period allowed for the Legislature's consideration under Article II,
sec. 16, of the vetoes is limited to the first five days within the next
lawfully-convened regular of special session of the Legislature;
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• The constitutional question has extraordinary public importance because
they concern the Governor's 182 budget line-item vetoe3 amounting to
cuts on the order of $444 million and affecting a broad spectrum of state
seNices and contracts for services;
• The parties have already explored a pretrial resolution and have
determined that no agreement is forthcoming;
• The Defendant's lawyers in the Department of Law should be ready to
fully litigate this question on an expedited basis because:
o The legality of AS 24.05.100(b), amended in 1982 by CS HB 184,
was first reviewed by the Department of Law 27 years ago during
the Twelfth Legislative Session (see Appendix A, noting the
attendance of Assistant Attorney General Peter Froehlich at a 1982
House Judiciary Committee hearing chaired by Rep. Barnes and
his representation that the Department of Law takes no position on
HB 184)
o Following the Governor's Executive Proclamation on June 13, the
Attorney General Kevin Clarkson, the Governor's lawyer, defended
the legality of the Wasilla venue (Appendix B (Associated Press,
June 26, 2019, "Dueling legal analyses raise questions about
special session"; KTUU June 26, 2019, "Alaska AG: Governor can
sue legislators who don't appear at Wasilla special session";
Anchorage Daily News, June 26 and 27, 2019 "Dispute over special
session location escalates")) indicating that the Governor's lawyers
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had fully researched the issue by the time of Clarkson's statements,
if not before;
o The Defendant through his attorneys has sufficient resources to
expeditiously litigate this issue.
• Plaintiffs ask the court pursuant to Alaska Evidence Rule 201 to take
judicial notice of the continuing barrage of media reports as to the
immediate and imminent impacts of the Governor's line-item vetoes. See
e.g. Anchorage Daily News, July 18, 2019 (Elizabeth Earl, Alaska Journal
of Commerce, "Providers await impacts of Medicaid cuts; dental services
axed") (Appendix C)
For all these reasons, Plaintiffs propose the following expedited schedule: the
Defendant to file any Opposition to the Motion for Preliminary Injunction by the
close of business, Friday, July 19, 2019; any Reply by the Plaintiffs would be due
by noon, Monday, July 22, 2019; and, that the Matter be calendared for oral
argument on Tuesday, July 23, 2019.
Dated at Anchorage, Alaska this 181h day of July, 2019.
~ ~Ul~ KEiN( McCOY / Pro Se Plaintiff (Alaska Bar# 7705042 Retired)
-~ c_JhL ~.G6!'JDES Pro Se Plaintiff (Alaska Bar# 8511157 Inactive)
Reply to Defendant's Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Expedited Consideration Kevin F. McCoy & Mary C. Geddes v. Michael J. Dunleavy, Governor NO. 3AN-19-08301CI
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~HB~ »184~ Relating to an advisory note on convening special sessions anywhere in Alaska.
Position Statement: He stated that the Department didn't really have How a position on WfB44&1itl84114.
»HB~ »184~ Previously brought up in committee.
CSHB 52 Previously heard in committee.
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' Number 0617 The meeting of the House Judiciary Committee was called to order by Chairman Barnes at I: 15 p.m. Bill Cook recommended that ~HB,~0~184~ was a statute, not an advisory vote -- so it had been drafted by Legal Services. Adds a subsection (b) that says a special session can be held anywhere. If it is called by the Governor, he designates the place. If the Legislature calls the special session, they designate the place. Rep. Phillips made a motion to pass CSHB 184 out of committee. No Objection. So ordered.
Number 0751 Rep. Meekins arrived 1:50. Rep. Phillips moved the 4 conceptual motions on HB 438 made the previous day by Rep. Meekins. Cook went over 4 motions. Rep. Meekins made a motion to
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Alaska AG: Governor can sue legislators who don't ?...-.....ar at Wasilla special session
Alaska AG: Governor can sue legislators who don't appear at Wasilla special session
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaking in front of Wasilla Middle School on Friday.
By Sean Maguire I Posted: Wed 5:37 PM, Jun 26, 2019 I Updated: Fri 5:28 PM, Jun 28, 2019
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Gov. Mike Dunleavy can sue individual legislators who don't come to Wasilla for the second special
session starting on July B, according to Kevin Clarkson, the Alaska Attorney General.
Clarkson said the governor could also get a court order to deploy Alaska State Troopers to "round up" lawmakers who fail to
appear in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
The legal debate stems from a decision by legislative leaders to shift the location of the second special session from Wasilla to
Anchorage and Juneau.
A session in Juneau or Anchorage that goes against the governor's wishes may be "invalid;' said Clarkson, meaning any
decisions lawmakers make may not have the force of law.
The Alaska Attorney General told reporters Wednesday that the governor is legally entitled to call a special session in any
location that he chooses. However, that analysis clashes with legal advice prepared by the Legislature's attorneys.
The Legislature's attorneys wrote Tuesday that the governor may be overstepping his constitutional role by deciding the location of a special session away from the capital.
"If the doctrine of separation of powers generally prevents the courts from interfering in matters of legislative procedure, then it
should certainly prevent the governor from interfering in matters of legislative procedure;· reads the legal advice.
The clash of legal opinions may be settled in a courtroom. Clarkson explained the governor is unable to sue the Legislature but
he could sue individual lawmakers that don't come to Wasilla.
Under the Legislature's uniform rules, the Senate President and House Speaker can call on the Department of Public Safety to
help bring any missing legislator back to a session.
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ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS Alaska Legislature
Dispute over special session location escalates , .. Author: James Brooks 0 Updated: June 27 ti Published June 26
111is June 14, 2019, photo shows a Wasilla sign on the outskirts of Wasilla, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
JUNEAU - A dispute over the location of the Alaska Legislature's second special session of 2019 continued to escalate Wednesday with dueling legal opinions, the threat of court action, and pledges by some lawmakers to meet in Wasilla despite plans by Legislative leaders.
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Dispute over special session location escalates - An.~age Daily News
While Gov. Mike Dunleavy has issued a proclamation saying that lawmakers shall meet July 8 in Wasilla to discuss this year's Permanent Fund dividend, the leaders of the Alaska Legislature said earlier this week that they will instead meet in Juneau and Anchorage, defying a state lavv that allows the governor to select the location of a special session.
If lawmakers cannot s~ttle their disagreement over the special session, they will be unable to finish work on the state's capital budget, endangering hundreds of millions of dollars for road construction projects statewide. In addition, the amount of this year's dividend is unresolved and still awaits legislative approval. The. capital budget must be finished by the ·end of July to avoid consequences, and the dividend amount must be set by mid-August to avoid delays in this year's payment.
Laying out the legal arguments
In a message Monday, Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, and Senate President Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage, said they would convene the Legislature's special session in Juneau, with financial meetings in Anchorage, because of cost and access concerns. State law allows the governor to specify a location for any special session he calls, but Edgmon and Giessel said that law is unconstitutional.
In a memo dated June 25, Legislative Legal Services director Megan Wallace outlined the Legislature's legal arguments. There are three reasons the Legislature, not the governor, can determine the location of a special session, Wallace wrote:
-- The Constitution does not grant the governor the power to select a location;
-- The Constitution states that Juneau is the capital, and therefore the Legislature should meet there unless lawma~<:ers decide otherwise;
-- The separation of powers doctrine, plus previous rulings by the Alaska Supreme Court, means the Legislature does not have to comply with laws that affect the rule-making power of the Legislature.
Dispute over special session location escalates - An~ge Daily News
"I think there's an argument that that law goes beyond the scope of what's allowed in the constitutional description," Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage, said Tuesday.
Josephson is an attorney and, after reading the memo, said of the location law, ''you could have a heck of an oral argument in a court deciding the legality of it."
In 1982, lawmakers approved legislation that says in part, "The governor shall designate the location (of the special session) in the proclamation."
In his June 13 proclamation, Dunleavy chose Wasilla.
But Wallace contends that the 1982 law never waived the Legislature's authority to pick its own location.
"It seems evident to me ... the Legislature did not contemplate a scenario, like here, where the governor would designate a location in a special session proclamation absent an agreement with the Legislature," she wrote.
Attorney general disagrees
In an interview with reporters Wednesday afternoon, Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson said, "the law in Alaska is clear, as far as I'm concerned."
He has advised the governor that "he can designate where that special session can be held."
The session could be held in Tok or alongside the highway, Clarkson said.
The state constitution prohibits the governor from filing suit against the Legislature, and with that in mind, Clarkson said he has advised the governor that there are three options if lawmakers continue to reject the governor's proclamation:
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-- The governor could allow them to meet in Juneau and Anchorage;
-- He could wait to see if a private citizen files suit against the Legislature;
-- or the governor could file a suit against individual lawmakers under Article III, Section 16 of the state constitution.
That section says the governor may "enforce compliance with any constitutional or legislative mandate." While that section specifically prohibits "any action or proceeding against the Legislature," Clarkson
said he believes it does not prohibit lawsuits against individual lawmakers.
Under that scenario, the governor could seek a court order requiring lawmakers to attend a Wasilla special session. If lawmakers still decline, he could then order state troopers to detain missing lawmakers and force them to attend.
Clarkson said the final decision will be up to the governor, who was meeting with President Donald Trump during the interview.
Dunleavy press secretary Matt Shuckerow said the governor will make a statement "in the near future."
Some in Wasilla, some in Juneau
Though the dispute remains unresolved, some lawmakers have already pledged to avoid Juneau in favor of Wasilla when the special session begins July 8.
"I'd be very surprised if anyone from the Mat-Su delegation wasn't there," said Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla, about meeting in Wasilla.
{Why not Wasilla for a second special session? Legislators cite cost, accessibility]
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Dispute over special session location escalates - Anchorage Daily News ~
The 15-member Republican House minority has consistently supported Dunleavy's position on this year's Permanent Fund dividend - the sole item on the special session agenda - but House Minority Leader Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, said Wednesday that his group doesn't yet have a unified position on missing Juneau in favor of Wasilla.
"I'm inclined at this point to more likely be out in Wasilla," he said.
"The only thing that would prevent me from not being up there personally is to whether or not I need to make sure they don't pull some kind of crazy stunt down in Juneau," he said. "I don't know what that stunt could be."
Some members of the Alaska Senate are also expected to be in Wasilla on the 8th. Sen. Shelley Hughes, R-Palmer and co-chairwoman of the Legislature's nine-member Mat-Su delegation, said she will be. Senate Minority Leader Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, has sided with the governor on the dividend issue but said she's still "thinking it over" when asked where she will be. Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, also supports the governor's position on the dividend but said he likely will be in Juneau even though he prefers Wasilla.
The majority of lawmakers will be in Juneau on the 8th, barring a change in opinion by the House and Senate leadership, and those in attendance at Wasilla will not have a quorum - the minimum number of members needed to call a session into order.
Regardless of the outcome, some lawmakers believe the issue is a distraction from the issues the session is intended to address.
Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, said in a Tuesday interview that he previously supported moving the special session to Anchorage or Juneau.
He believes the Legislature would win any legal challenge regarding the location law, but he also said it's an argument better served for another time. He believes the Legislature should be focusing on the Permanent Fund dividend and the unfinished capital budget.
"I just want to get our work done. I think the public's getting really
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Providers await impacts of Medicaid cuts; dental services axed ' Author: Elizabeth Earl, Alaska Journal of Commerce 0 Updated: 1 hour ago ti! Published 4 hours ago
Gov. Mike Dunleavy talks and answers questions about his recent budget vetoes at the start of a meeting with members of his cabinet in Anchorage on July 15, 2019. (Marc Lester I ADN)
Alaska Gov. Mike. Dunleavy's cuts to the state Medicaid budget have providers holding their breath as they wait to see the impacts.
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Dunleavy vetoed about $58 million of general fund support for Medicaid :programs from the Legislature's enacted budget on June 28. The
Legislature, divided between special sessions in Wasilla and Juneau, failed to override the vetoes, and so the cut stands for now.
Because Medicaid is a federally matched program, the dollars the state cuts lead to forfeited federal dollars as well. The $58 million general fund cut is compounded by those federal dollars, meaning at least $77 million less in total.
Though there's no immediate impact for hospitals, one of their concerns is for the end of the next fiscal year, when money starts running out to reimburse providers. The state suspended payments for about two weeks in June due to a Medicaid funding shortfall, forcing hospitals to wait until the turnover of the fiscal year to be paid.
While hospitals are again being paid, there's the possibility that if funding is cut, the suspension could go on for longer next year, said Jeannie Monk, senior vice president of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association.
"Right now, in terms of hospitals and Medicaid, everybody's OK," she said.
One Medicaid service would be eliminated entirely if the vetoes stand: adult preventive dental medical coverage. Up until this year, Medicaid recipients were able to access preventive dental services such as cleanings and X-rays. Dunleavy vetoed $27 million supporting the program, which would stop the preventive program, though emergency situations would still be covered, according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
Providers say it's more than a luxury. During the regular session, legislators and providers argued for the retention of the program, saying it was an essential part of preventive health and provided opportunities for people to encounter the medical system who might not have otherwise gone in for a doctor's appointment.
Without the benefit, there's a concern that those patients will just wind
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up in the emergency rooms with abscesses and acute dental conditions, Monk said. The same is true of the homeless population, with the vetoes applying to social services that help run homeless shelters.
{Dunleavy budget veto cuts services to the homeless statewide, hitting Anchorage hardest]
For patients at federally qualified health centers, that means paying a sliding scale fee. Though that fee reduces the patient's cost, it's still about 25% of the total charge, said Jon Zasada, the policy integration director for the Alaska Primary Care Association.
"I think a lot of folks know that once you start doing the cleaning, fillings, and other procedures, it becomes a lot more expensive," he said. "Let's say a cleaning or a tooth pulling ... a patient could easily have a bill that at full cost is multiple thousands of dollars, and then they would be responsible for $1,000, which they generally are not able to pay."
Other states who have cut their preventive dental services for Medicaid have studied and tracked increases in emergency room visits for dental reasons, Zasada said. Though that isn't something Alaska has done in the past, it's something the APCA will be looking into, in part because of the inefficiency of treating those problems in an expensive place like an emergency room, he said.
"Certainly an abscess or an infection, when treated in an emergency room, is far more expensive than when it might be under control because someone has access to preventative care," he said.
At hospitals, those patients would be eligible for financial assistance or charity care. Hospitals generally have to eat that cost later. That's not the case for federally qualified health centers; they often have grants to help cover that shortfall from the sliding scale fee. But with more patients not able to pay for services, they may have to rely more on those backup funding sources.
For the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, that means probably looking for more grants to support their services and relying on patients
who come with private insurance, said Tammy Green, the CEO of
"We have figured out that we have a fair amount of our dental patients that are on Medicaid with our dental benefit," she said. "We're going to have to figure out where else to shoulder that in our business."
The Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center has integrated medical, dental and behavioral care, and patients who come in for dental services are frequently referred for medical services and vice versa.
Without the dental benefit, patients may not be as likely to receive care in the first place, which may lead to more serious conditions down the road and may hamper their ability to get jobs. Green said a number of the patients who have had dental services have written to the clinics and said oral care played a role in their ability to be employable by correcting their speech or smiles.
The other problem is that the caseload may go up as other providers in the area stop taking Medicaid patients, she said.
"I think the other piece about these cuts is that in our community, the dentists will no longer be able to see the Medicaid patients and we are going to be deluged, but more import~n.tly, I think the hospital emergency rooms are going to end up (seeing these patients)," she said.
The House Finance Committee, meeting in Anchorage July 15, introduced House Bill 2001 to reinstate many of the cuts from the lineitem vetoes, including Medicaid, and using remaining state funds to pay the Permanent Fund dividend. Zasada said the APCA hadn't formally endorsed the bill, but "anything that would reinstate funding for broad health care services amongst all of the other things, we are supportive of."
During a press conference Monday, Dunleavy said his administration hadn't had time to review the House's new bill yet but planned to continue discussions with legislators later in the day.
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BILL HISTORY/ ACTION FOR LEGISLATURE
BILL HB 39 CCS SSHB 39
CURRENT STATUS VETO SUSTAINED
BILL
VERSION
STATUS DATE 07 /1 2/2019 SHORT TITLE AP PROP: OPERATING
BUDGET/LOANS/FUNDS
SPONSOR(S)
TITLE
HOUSE RULES BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR
"An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses
of state government and for certain programs; capitalizing funds; amending
appropriations; making supplemental appropriations and reappropriations;
7/11/2019 1238 (H) MOTION TO RESCIND ACTION TO SUSTAIN WITHDRAWN UC
Similar Subject Match or Exact Subject Match AIRPORTS APPROPRIATIONS
BONDS & BONDING BUDGET BUDGET RESERVE FUND COURTS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ENERGY EXECUTIVE BRANCH
FEDERAL AID FIRE PROTECTION FUNDS HOUSING LEGISLATURE
LOANS MILITARY PERMANENT FUND PUBLIC CORPORATIONS
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC OFFICERS RETIREMENT
REVENUE SALARIES & ALLOWANCES SCHOOLS STATE AID TAXATION
TRANSPORTATION UNIVERSITIES WORKERS COMPENSATION
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<£\f cutive Procfamation 6y
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FIRST SUPPLEMENT AL PROCLAMATION SECOND SPECIAL SESSION
Under the authority of Article II, Section 9, and Article ID, Section 17, Constitution of the State of Alaska and in the public interest, I am amending my June 13, 2019 proclamation calling the Thirty-First Legislature of the State of Alaska into its second special session at I :00 p.m., on July 8, 2019 as follows:
The Legislature shall continue the second special session that began on July 8, 2019, at 1 :00 p.m., under my June 13, 2019 proclamation. From July 17, 2019 forward through the remainder of the constitutional period, the second special session shall continue in the Legislative Chambers in Juneau, Alaska.
The Legislature shall consider, in addition to the subject identified in my June 13, 2019 proclamation, an act authorizing capital appropriations, operating appropriations for certain state programs, repealing appropriations, and making appropriations to capitalize funds.
Dated this lt~ay of July, 2019.
Time: J ~: OCJ., amiJ8
~~ who has also authorized the seal of the State of Alask,?- to be affixed to this proclamation.