{"id":15740,"date":"2016-12-22T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/panel-oks-moving-policy-changes-ahead-of-legislative-session\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:00:40","slug":"panel-oks-moving-policy-changes-ahead-of-legislative-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/panel-oks-moving-policy-changes-ahead-of-legislative-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel OKs moving policy changes ahead of legislative session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> The state will only pay for lawmakers to bring one vehicle with them for the coming legislative session under a policy change approved by a legislative committee.<\/p>\n<p>The policy previously allowed transportation costs to be covered for up to two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Legislative Affairs Agency finance manager Jessica Geary told the Legislative Council, which weighed in on the issue Tuesday, that during recent sessions, only a few legislators brought more than one vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers can still bring more than one vehicle at their own expense.<\/p>\n<p>Another change would require legislators not connected to the road or ferry systems who may want to ship a vehicle by air freight or barge from their home to the nearest highway or ferry terminal to show that\u2019s cheaper than getting a rental car in Juneau.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how much money the changes approved Tuesday might save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 The state will only pay for lawmakers to bring one vehicle with them for the coming legislative session under a policy change approved by a legislative committee. The policy previously allowed transportation costs to be covered for up to two vehicles. Legislative Affairs Agency finance manager Jessica Geary told the Legislative Council, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15740"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}