Alaska State Legislature
News from the House Majority

Jerry Ritter, House Majority Press Secretary
State Capitol
Juneau, AK 99801
Phone: (907) 465-3804
web site: http://www.akrepublicans.org
Actuality line: 1-800-478-6540

House Passes Measure to Aid Regional Nonprofit Corporations

For Immediate Release: April 18, 1998 Contact: Rep. Ivan Ivan at (907) 465-4942.

Juneau -- The Alaska House of Representatives Saturday approved a measure sponsored by the House Community and Regional affairs Committee which will allow a regional nonprofit association to increase the number of board of commissioners on a regional native housing authority to more than five members with no more than nine members. The other purpose of CSHB 471 (CRA) is to allow an involuntarily dissolved Native village to reinstate the corporation through December 31, 1998. These dissolved corporations had until August 7, 1997, to reincorporate by state statute. The measure passed 39-0.

Congress, in 1996, passed a new Indian housing act, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act of 1996, which converts Indian housing funding to block grants. According to House C&RA Committee chairman, Rep. Ivan M. Ivan, D-Akiak, "This bill will provide fairer representation on boards of regional housing authorities and will allow for more input from their constituents." This change is optional.

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