Sectional Analysis for SB 142
Regional Education
Attendance Areas
Section 1: Amends AS 14.08.031(a) by deleting
the current language for boundaries of REAA's and replacing with
the proposed model borough boundaries.
Section 2: Transition section:
- Establishes a 4.5 mill tax to begin
January 1, 2000 for each REAA. States that money
generated from these taxes may be appropriated for
funding for the REAAs. Provisions of existing statutes
regarding municipal property taxes apply to this section.
Establishes that the state assessor will assess the
property, collect taxes, deposit them, and perform duties
of a municipality for such collections except that the
assessor may not adopt an ordinance or grant exemptions
not under current municipal property tax statutes.
- Requires DCRA to develop a method of
levying and collecting taxes in the REAA's, after public
input on the proposed methods. DCRA then prepares draft
legislation establishing a tax system, and submits to the
senate and house of representatives by January 1, 1999.
- Language for provision of regional school
board elections.
Section 3: Repeals "Education in the
Unorganized Borough".
Section 4: Effective date of Section 1 and 3 of
this Act.
Section 5: Effective date of Section 2 of this
act.
SA: S(FIN): SB 142: 5/7/97: mj