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: Permanent Fund Inflation Proofing
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An Act relating to transfers from the earnings reserve account to the dividend fund and to the principal of the permanent fund to offset the effect of inflation; and providing for an effective date.
: Dispensing Opticians: Board & Regulation
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An Act relating to dispensing opticians and dispensing optician apprentices.
Version: HB 502
Contact: Matthew Rudig, 465-3466
Action: 04-02-04: (H)L&C » (H)HES
HB 502 clarifies the education and training requirements to become an optician, allows qualified opticians from other states to practice in Alaska, and sets out requirements to fit and sell contact lenses.
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: Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
Passed House!
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to the tobacco product Master Settlement Agreement; and providing for an effective date.
Version: HB 503
Contact: Tom Wright, 465-4859
Action: 04-19-04: (S)JUD » (S)FIN
House Bill 503 closes a loophole in the model statutes that costs states a significant amount in MSA payments every year.
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: Firearms in Licensed Premises
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An Act related to the possession of firearms in places where intoxicating liquor is sold for consumption on the premises.
: Alcohol Licensing: Connoisseur License
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An Act relating to importing beer or wine for personal consumption and a liquor license for that purpose, and to taxes on beer or wine imported for personal consumption.
Version: HB 505
Contact: Sue Stancliff, 465-3777
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: Ecucation Funding
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An Act relating to funding of public education; and providing for an effective date.
: G.O. Bonds for Educational Purposes
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An Act providing for and relating to the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of paying the cost of design, construction, and major maintenance of educational facilities; and providing for an effective date.
: Education Facilities Financing Authority
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An Act relating to school construction grants and major maintenance grants to school districts; relating to reimbursement of school construction debt; providing a remedy to the constitutional violations found in Kasayulie et al. v. State of Alaska, Case No. 3AN-97-3782 CV; relating to the Education Facilities Financing Authority; and providing for an effective date.
: Alaska Gaming Commission
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An Act relating to establishing the Alaska Gaming Commission.
Version: CS HB 509 (FIN)
Contact: Sue Stancliff, 465-3958
Action: 03-04-04: (H)FIN ==> (H)RLS
The goal of HB 509 is to put the regulatory framework in place by establishing the Alaska Gaming Commission within the Department of Revenue. This bill establishes parameters for a seven-member commission appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature. The bill clearly specifies commission make-up, qualifications for commissioners, meeting times, and powers and duties. Amended to add two non voting industry members to the board.
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: Records Pertaining to Children
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An Act relating to the disclosure of certain records pertaining to children for certain distribution by Native corporations; and providing for an effective date.
: Certificate of Need Program
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
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An Act relating to the certificate of need program for health care facilities; and providing for an effective date.
Version: SCS CS HB 511 (FIN)
Contact: Sara Nielsen, 465-4230
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
HB 511 seeks to level the playing field by subjecting all those seeking to provide health care services to the same rules whether they lease or build a facility. Amended to inflation proof the 1 million dollar threshold by $50,000 per year until 2014.
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: Hydrogen Energy Research Program
Passed House!
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An Act establishing the Hydrogen Energy Partnership in the Department of Community and Economic Development; requiring the commissioner of community and economic development to seek public and private funding for the partnership; providing for the contingent repeal of an effective date; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 512 (FIN)
Contact: Jay Hardenbrook, 465-3438
Action: 05-04-04: (S)L&C » (S)FIN
House Bill 512 establishes a hydrogen energy partnership within the Department of Community and Economic Development. The partnership is tasked with facilitating the development of a hydrogen fuel industry in Alaska. Amended to add the electric utilities to the list of those eligible to be involved the partnership and expanded the possible utilization of hydrogen research.
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: CSED Name Change/Driver's License Suspension
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
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An Act relating to the enforcement of support orders through suspension of drivers' licenses; changing the name of the child support enforcement agency to the child support services agency; amending Rules 90.3 and 90.5, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; and providing for an effective date.
Version: SCS HB 513 (JUD)
Contact: John Main, 465-3777
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
HB 513 changes the name from Child Support Enforcement Division to Child Support Services Division and keeps the clock running for the time an individual has to become current on back child support payments before drivers licenses revocation occurs. Currently if a person is behind and makes a single payment the time from which he or she loses their licenses starts over. This bill will not allow that to happen.
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: Child Support Enforcement/Crimes
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
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An Act relating to child support modification and enforcement, to the establishment of paternity by the child support enforcement agency, and to the crimes of criminal nonsupport and aiding the nonpayment of child support; amending Rule 90.3, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; and providing for an effective date.
Version: SCS CS HB 514 (FIN)
Contact: John Main, 465-3777
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
House Bill 514 has been introduced as an omnibus bill to help the Child Support Enforcement Division better serve the parents and children of Alaska. There are seven changes to the child support statutes. Each piece of this legislation attempts to remedy problems the agency has encountered over many years. Removed language which dealt with minors and their request for paternity as it related to rape and incest.
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: Municipal Water And Sewer Utilities
Passed House!
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An Act relating to the regulation of municipal water and sewer utilities not in competition with other water and sewer utilities.
Version: HB 515
Contact: Josh Applebee, 465-4939
Action: 04-29-04: Passed the House
House Bill 515 changes existing law by adding lines 5 thru 8 on Page 2. This language states that a water or sewer utility owned by a political subdivision not directly competing with another water or sewer utility is exempt from RCA regulation.
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: Bad Check Charge
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An Act relating to a charge for a bad check.
Version: CSHB 516 (STA)
Contact: James Armstrong, 465-3424
Action: 03-08-04: (H)STA ==> (H)JUD
This bill raises the bad check charge from a maximum of $25 to a maximum of $30
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: Security Account Beneficiary Designation
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An Act relating to registration in beneficiary form of certain security accounts, including certain reinvestment, investment management, and custody accounts.
Version: HB 517 (Title Am)
Contact: Josh Applebee, 465-4939
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
Permits an investment management custody account with a trust company or trust division of a bank with trust powers to have a beneficiary designation take effect upon death of the owner. Amended to change the title from An Act relating to registration in beneficiary from of certain security accounts, including certain reinvestment, investment management, and custody accounts.
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: Managers Not Employees Under P.E.R.A.
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Requested by
An Act amending the Public Employment Relations Act to exclude from collective bargaining individuals who perform confidential or managerial duties for a public employer and relating to those exclusions; and providing for an effective date.
: Midwifery Birth Center Licensing
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An Act requiring licensure of midwifery birth centers; and providing for an effective date.
: Regulatory Commission Of Alaska
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An Act relating to the expenses of investigation, hearing, or public advocacy before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, to calculation of the regulatory cost charge for public utilities and pipeline carriers to include the Department of Law's costs of its public advocacy function, to inspection of certain books and records by the attorney general when participating as a party in a matter before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska; and providing for an effective date.
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: Appropriations: Retirement Fund Costs
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An Act making an appropriation to the Department of Education and Early Development for grants to school districts to pay the additional costs of employee retirement programs; making appropriations to the Alaska Court System and the University of Alaska to pay the additional costs of employee retirement programs; and providing for an effective date.
: Small Cruise Ship Discharges
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to discharges from small commercial passenger vessels; and providing for an effective date.
Version: HB 522
Contact: Linda Sylvester, 465-3744
Action: 05-07-04: Passed the Senate
HB 522 deals in terms of Best Management Practices or BMPs for small vessels that currently operate in Alaskan waters and allows for differing standards for small and large vessels. HB 522 also stipulates that new vessels constructed after January 1, 2004 be engineered to comply with the Compliance Program if they are to be used in Alaskan waters. This is an agreeable solution that will work for Alaska's environmental and business communities.
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: Voters/ Voting/ Political Parties/ Elections
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Requested by
An Act relating to qualifications of voters, voter registration, voter residence, precinct boundary modification, recognized political parties, voters unaffiliated with political parties, early voting, absentee voting, ballot counting, voting by mail, initiative, referendum, recall, and definitions; and providing for an effective date.
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: Waste Management/Disposal
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
Requested by
An Act relating to the protection of land and water from waste disposal; providing for the regulation of waste management; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Version: SCS CS HB 524 (RES)
Contact: Mike Tibbles, 465-4021
Action: 05-02-04: Passed the Senate » Reconsideration Notice
This bill would change the existing statutory authority for a waste disposal permit program (AS 46.03.100) by reorganizing and supplementing it. That reorganized section would preserve the essential requirement to obtain authorization before conducting an operation that results in waste disposal. The bill would clarify that the proof of financial responsibility must cover managing and closing the facility to control or minimize the risk of release of unauthorized levels of pollutants to waters.
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: Human Rights Commission Procedures
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An Act relating to complaints filed with, and investigations, hearings, and orders of, the State Commission for Human Rights; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
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: Railroad Utility Corridor To & In Canada
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An Act relating to a transportation corridor for extension of the Alaska Railroad to Canada and to extension of the Alaska Railroad to connect with the North American railroad system.
: Alaska Securities Act
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An Act relating to the Alaska Securities Act, including reports, proxies, consents, authorizations, proxy statements, and other materials, civil penalties, refunds of proceeds from violations, restitution, and investment adviser representatives; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CSHB 527 (STA)
Contact: Ginny Austerman, 465-3744
Action: 04-06-04: (H)STA » (H)JUD
This legislation streamlines a technical definition for investment adviser representative that at present is redundant and, therefore, difficult to comprehend, gives the securities administrator the authority to fine a person who violates the Securities Act up to $100,000 for multiple, knowing or purposeful violations and gives to the securities administrator the authority to order restitution to the victim of a violation of the Act and lower the jurisdictional limit of the division for oversight of ANCSA corporation proxy matters to those corporations with more than 250 shareholders. Amendment removed the restriction which prohibits charging more than the action cost of procedure.
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: Royalty Oil Contract Sale Approval
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An Act approving and ratifying the sale of royalty oil by the State of Alaska to Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC, and Flint Hills Resources, LLC; and providing for an effective date.
: Alaska Railroad Track Work
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An Act relating to the performance of railroad track construction work for the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities by the Alaska Railroad Corporation.
Version: HB 529
Contact: Josh Applebee, 465-4954
Action: 03-15-04: (H)L&C » (H)FIN
House Bill 529 amends the procurement code so that the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT/PF) can work directly with the Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) on track work through a reimbursable service agreement similar to other utilities (i.e. power and water lines).
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: Dentists And Dental Hygienists
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An Act relating to dentists and dental hygienists; establishing certain committees for the discipline and peer review of dentists; excluding the adjudicatory proceedings of the Board of Dental Examiners and its committees from the Administrative Procedure Act; and providing for an effective date.
: Conventional & Nonconventional Gas Leases
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to natural gas exploration and development and to nonconventional gas, and amending the section under which shallow natural gas leases may be issued; and providing for an effective date.
Version: SCS CS HB 531 (FIN)
Contact: Eleanor Wolfe, 465-6585
Action: 05-09-04: Passed the Senate
Without HB 531, a subsequent gas development entity could immediately lease land relinquished by the original lessee. In addition, land not currently leased remains subject to current over-the-counter standards. This bill initiates a permanent solution to these problems. CS HB 531 (RES) scraps the separate leasing process for shallow natural gas leasing and treats leasing of that commodity under the conventional oil and gas leasing provisions. Repealed several non-conforming statutes and conformed to HB 524 (An Act relating to the protection of land and water from waste disposal; providing for the regulation of waste management). It has been brought forward in response to strong citizen interest in the Mat-Su Valley and on the Kenai Peninsula, with input from several public meetings held at one time or another by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR), and the Senate Resources Committee. Amended to add a section regarding miners the one time transfer of an application to a licenses and clarified bonding requirements.
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: Amend Definition Of Lobbyist
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An Act amending the definition of 'lobbyist' in the Regulation of Lobbying Act; and providing for an effective date.
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: If Unreasonable Agency Delay, Court Decides
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to the state's administrative procedures and to judicial oversight of administrative matters.
Version: SCS CS HB 533 (FIN)
Contact: Linda Sylvester, 465-2028
Action: 05-09-04: Passed the Senate
HB 533 allows individuals with cases under administrative review the option to have those cases moved into the courts under certain circumstances.
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: Extend Office Of Victims Rights
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
Requested by
An Act extending the termination date of the office of victims' rights.
Version: CS HB 534 (FIN)
Contact: Mike Tibbles, 465-4021
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
HB 534 extends the office of victims right to July 1, 2010.
: Limit State Aid For Mental Health Care
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Requested by
An Act relating to liability for expenses of placement in certain mental health facilities; relating to the mental health treatment assistance program; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 535 (JUD)
Contact: Mike Tibbles, 465-4021
Action: 05-06-04: (H)JUD » (H)FIN
An Act relating to liability for expenses of placement in certain mental health facilities; relating to the mental health treatment assistance program; and providing for an effective date. Minor language amendments added in JUD
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: Permanent Fund Application Deadlines: Military
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
Requested by
An Act relating to applications for permanent fund dividends by certain individuals serving in the armed forces; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 536 (MLV)
Contact: Jon Bittner, 465-4930
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
HB 536 amends the current PFD application process to allow for members of the armed services who receive hostile fire/imminent danger pay during the application period to receive an application extension. Amended to establish a 90 day window, from the time military personal cease receiving hostile fire/imminent danger pay, to file for the PFD. Amended to add a sunset of December 31, 2004
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: Tourism Sales And Use Taxes
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An Act relating to the levy, collection, and administration of sales and use taxes on tourism services; and providing for an effective date.
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: Tobacco Tax; Licensing; Penalties
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Requested by
An Act relating to taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products; relating to tax stamps on cigarettes; relating to forfeiture of cigarettes and of property used in the manufacture, transportation, or sale of unstamped cigarettes; relating to licenses and licensees under the Cigarette Tax Act; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 538 (W&M)
Contact: Mike Tibbles, 465-4021
Action: 04-23-04: (H)L&C » (H)FIN
Adds one-dollar tax to each package of cigarettes sold. Amended to relives some of the financial burden of existing licensees in regards to bonding and request money be spent on smoking session. Amended to prohibit the use of tobacco as a “lost leader” and limits the amount of tobacco products and individual may import for person use.
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: University Student Practicum Liability/Wages
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
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An Act exempting a person who allows a student of the University of Alaska to gain practical work experience with the person while participating in a practicum from vicarious liability as an employer, and exempting the student participating in a practicum from the Alaska Wage and Hour Act and workers' compensation coverage.
Version: CS HB 539 (L&C)
Contact: Vanessa Tondini, 465-4990
Action: 04-29-04: Passed the House
HB 539 provides the same employment liability for university intern programs that already exist in statute for high schools throughout the state.
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: Workers' Compensation Insurance Rates
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to workers' compensation insurance rates; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 540 (L&C)
Contact: Josh Applebee, 465-4939
Action: 05-07-04: Passed the Senate
The current system, which allows little or no input from industry participants, must be changed to avert future crises in the industry. HB 540 provides not only for this needed input, but will raise the awareness of the actual system costs and will help all stakeholders monitor the equity in this critical Alaskan system. Amended to create a definite framework for review times and deadlines.
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: Increased Appropriations Require Offset
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An Act relating to consideration by the legislature of the executive budget and other bills affecting appropriations; and providing for an effective date.
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: Construction Contractors
Passed Senate!
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to specialty construction contractors and to construction contractor exemptions.
Version: CS HB 542 (RLS)
Contact: Sue Stancliff, 465-4939
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
HB 542 lowers the limit of a project cost from $10,000 to $5,000, and expands the work that can be done by a specialty contractor. Current law allows unlicensed persons to act as contractors, when they are not. In fact, they compete with contractors and are not required to have a bond or insurance. Having no bond or insurance gives the consumer no protection from faulty work.. HB 542 remedies this problem.
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: Medicaid And Prescription Drugs
Passed House!
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to medical assistance coverage for prescription drugs; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 543 (RLS)
Contact: Jean Ellis, , 465-3824
Action: 05-03-04: Passed the House
HB 543 provides that the commissioner must appoint a Prescription Drug Review Advisory Committee prior to the department establishing a PDL or placing any limitation on coverage of a medication. Amended to require specific language Medically Necessary, on prescriptions to receive drugs not on the PDL list. Allowed certain action regarding PDL before the effective date of this legislation as it relate to Senior Care.
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: Permanent Fund Board Public Member Removal
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An Act providing that public members of the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation may be removed only for cause; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 544 (STA)
Contact: Mike Tibbles, 465-4021
Action: 05-06-04: (H)STA » (H)RLS
This bill would insulate the Alaska Permanent Fund from partisan politics by making it more likely that Board members would be retained until the expiration of their terms. Amended to conform with Senate version-SB 379.
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: State Lease And Contract Extensions
Passed Senate!
Sponsored by the
Requested by
An Act relating to the extension under the State Procurement Code of terms for leases for real estate and certain terms for certain state contracts for goods and services; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 545 (L&C)
Contact: Mike Tibbles, 465-4021
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
This bill would make several changes to the State Procurement Code. Section one of the bill would authorize the state to negotiate lease rate reductions on existing leases in exchange for certain term extensions when favorable lease rates are available. Amended to increase the percentage the state can negotiate from 5% to 10%.
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: Pollution Discharge & Waste Treatment/ Disposal
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
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Requested by
An Act relating to regulation of the discharge of pollutants from timber-related activities under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System; relating to waste treatment and disposal permits; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 546 (JUD)
Contact: Mike Tibbles, 465-4021
Action: 05-06-04: Passed the Senate
This bill would amend some existing permit requirements related to application submittals, public notice and comment opportunities, the maximum term of permits, and the causes for termination or modification of an authorization.
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: PFD: Delay Payment For Allowable Absences
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An Act relating to the dividends of individuals claiming allowable absences; and providing for an effective date.
Version: HB 547
Contact: Chris Knight, 465-6867
Action: 04-06-04: (H)STA » (H)FIN
HB 547 requires all people applying for dividends while out of state to return to Alaska for one year to collect their dividends. The bill does not change eligibility requirements or make any modifications allowable absences with regard to maintaining one's residency status for the PFD.
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: State Mechanical Code
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An Act relating to the state's mechanical code, to mechanical contractors and mechanical administrators, to mechanical standards and inspections involved in certain housing loans, and to the adoption of the state's mechanical code; and providing for an effective date.
: Unsolicited Communication: Aircraft Crash
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
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An Act relating to unsolicited communications following an aircraft accident; and amending Rule 503, Alaska Rules of Evidence.
Version: SCS HB 549 (JUD) Am
Contact: Vanessa Tondini, 465-2995
Action: 05-06-04: (S)JUD » (S)RLS
HB 549 prohibits attorneys from contacting air crash victims. Amended to clarify that the prohibitions (relating to initiating contact with individuals injured or killed in an aircraft accident do not apply to the activities undertaken or the legal obligations that an air carrier or its insurers may have to provide a passenger with short-term assistance and retain a penalty of a class A misdemeanor but establishes a greater fine of the greater of $100,000 or the amount of the legal fees. Amended to lower the max fine from $100,000 to $10,000 or the greater of fine and legal fees.
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: Telecommunications & RCA Actions
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An Act setting a timeline for decisions of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska; relating to competitive telecommunications markets; and providing for an effective date.
: Drug Felony Disqualifies Teacher
Passed House!
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to the issuance of teacher certificates to and revocation of teacher certificates of persons convicted of felony drug offenses and to the issuance of limited teacher certificates to persons convicted of certain crimes involving a minor and felony drug offenses.
Version: CS HB 551 (JUD) Am
Contact: Ryan Makinster, 465-2995
Action: 05-06-04: (S)STA » (S)HES
HB 551 addresses this issue by requiring the Department of Education revoke the teaching certificate of a person convicted of felony drug charges and also disallows a person from being granted such a certificate if they have been convicted of these charges.
Amended on the floor to allow discretion in rehiring under certain circumstances and remove certain crimes as disqualifiers.
Amended to include a 10 year look-back.
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: Gambling & Gaming
Passed House!
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to the creation of the Alaska Gaming Commission to
regulate gambling; authorizing the Alaska Gaming Commission to license
gambling games and gambling casino owners and suppliers and to issue
occupational licenses for gambling employees; limiting casino gambling
to municipalities with a population of 150,000 or more; allowing the
Alaska Gaming Commission to issue only one owner's license for a
gambling casino in certain municipalities with a population of 150,000
or more; creating crimes relating to gambling and setting requirements
for gambling; creating the state gaming fund in the general fund;
setting a gross receipts tax on gambling games; limiting the authority
of a municipality to tax the adjusted gross receipts of gambling games.
Version: CS HB 552 (FIN) Am
Contact: Sue Stancliff
Action: 05-03-04: Passed the House
Establishes a gaming commission to oversee present and any future gaming operations.
Allows a municipality to hold an election to determine whether or not gaming should be allowed.
: Permanent Fund Appropriations & Investments
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to investments of the Alaska permanent fund and to the income of and appropriations from the Alaska permanent fund and making conforming amendments; relating to the determination of net income of the mental health trust fund; and providing for an effective date.
Version: HB 553
Contact: Pete Ecklund 465-3424
Action: 04-14-04: (H)FIN » (H)RLS
HB 553 is effective only if a Percent of Market Value (POMV) constitutional amendment is approved by the voters during the 2004 general election and takes effect. HB 553 provides conforming language to existing statue to accommodate changing the constitutional requirement that all income of the Permanent Fund be deposited into the general fund to the more limiting appropriation mechanism of 'up to 5%' of market value in the proposed POMV constitutional amendments which protect the fund's principal.
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: Commercial Fishing Loans For Quota Shares
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Requested by
An Act authorizing the making of certain commercial fishing loans to eligible community quota entities for the purchase of certain fishing quota shares; and providing for an effective date.
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: Occupational Licensing Fees And Receipts
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to occupational licensing fees and receipts.
Version: HB 555
Contact: Amanda Wilson, 465-4968
Action: 04-27-04: (H)STA » (H)FIN
House Bill 555 would require the return of any fines and penalties collected as the result of a decision by a licensing Board or Commission to the Division to help offset its regulatory costs; Clarifies that total amount of fees together with fines and penalties, shall approximately equal the total actual costs of the board and department of all occupations regulated by the board.
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: AIDEA Bond for Lynn Canal Port
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to a port development project at Lynn Canal, providing legislative approval for the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to issue bonds or otherwise provide financing for the project; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 556 (FIN)
Contact: Linda Sylvester, 465-3744
Action: 05-05-04: (S)FIN » (S)RLS
An Act relating to a port development project at Lynn Canal, providing legislative approval for the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to issue bonds or otherwise provide financing for the project; and providing for an effective date. Amended to limit funds for the project to bond sales. Amended to add specific language to specify the location of the project. (Slate Creek cove and Cascade Point on Lynn Canal).
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: Lobbyist Prohibitions
Sponsored by the
An Act regarding lobbyist prohibitions.
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: Civil Legal Services Fund
Sponsored by the
An Act relating to the creation of a civil legal services fund.
: STEP Program Continuance
Passed Legislature! Await Transmit to Gov.
Sponsored by the
An Act repealing the termination of the state training and employment program; and providing for an effective date.
Version: HB 559 Am
Contact: Tom Wright, 465-3424
Action: 05-10-04: Passed the Senate
House Bill 559 reauthorizes the State Training and Employment Program (STEP), which was established by the Legislature in 1989.
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: Municipal Land Use Regulation
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An Act relating to application of municipal ordinances providing for planning, platting, and land use regulation to interests in land owned by the Alaska Railroad Corporation; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CS HB 560 (TRA)
Contact: Barbara Cotting, 465-3466
Action: 05-08-04: (H)CRA » (H)RLS
A recent Alaska Supreme Court decision has called into question the Railroad's exemption from local planning and zoning ordinances provided in AS 42.40 (Alaska Railroad Corporation). This bill would clarify the Legislature's intent that such local regulations do not apply to the Railroad's land unless it is leased to another person without retaining a railroad right of use.
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