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Rep. Jeremy Bynum outlines education fights, PFD trade-offs and local priorities at Ketchikan town hall
Summary
At a Ketchikan town hall, Rep. Jeremy Bynum described recently passed bills (including HB 75), the Legislature's struggle over education funding and the fiscal limits that complicate the Permanent Fund Dividend, and answered questions on tribal school compacts, charter fishing and infrastructure.
Representative Jeremy Bynum, who represents House District 1, told a packed Ketchikan forum that his first legislative term included wins on targeted bills and difficult budget fights and that he will continue pressing for local priorities in Juneau.
Bynum said two pieces of legislation his office pushed reached final stages this year: a House resolution urging restoration of Secure Rural Schools funding and HB 75, which he described as fixing long-standing PFD-exemption language that had left Merchant Marine Academy students ineligible for an exemption. "We worked really hard through the House and the Senate to get that bill passed," Bynum…
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