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 JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska Legislature has passed the state's biggest oil and gas tax law rewrite in decades as a way to spur development of Alaska's natural gas reserves.
The bill passed in the waning hours of a special session late Thursday after an ailing elderly lawmaker flew in from Anchorage to cast the deciding vote.
If lawmakers had failed to pass the production tax bill for the third time this year, Gov. Frank Murkowski would have convened a third special session of the year beginning Friday.
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