Unalaska, AK – Funding for twice monthly ferry runs passed the State House of Representatives Monday morning. House Bill 326 provides funding for the Alaska Marine Highway System to bring the ferry out the Aleutian chain and to Unalaska twice a month from May 2010 until October 2010 and twice again in May and June of 2011. The state legislature cannot make funding decisions for fiscal year 2012, which starts July 1, 2011. That means they cannot guarantee two runs per month for the entire summer of 2011. The bill appropriates another $650,000 for the extra runs in May and June and $3.6 million for the extra runs the other six months. The supplemental budget bill passed unanimously 40 to 0 and will now go to the Senate.