Palin must reimburse the state within 120 days, according to a settlement agreement filed by a special investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board to investigate an ethics complaint filed against her.

There is no state law prohibiting the governor's family to travel with her. But the investigator interpreted the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act to require that state pay only if the first family serves an important state interest.

Costs found not to meet that standard include air fare and one meal for Bristol Palin, who accompanied the governor to New York for Newsweek's Third Annual Women and Leadership Conference in October 2007.
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