00HOUSE BILL NO. 421                                                                                                      
01 "An Act authorizing grants for temporary housing assistance during emergencies                                          
02 and disasters."                                                                                                         
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 26.23.100(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
05  (a)  Whenever the governor has proclaimed a disaster emergency, or the                                                
06 President, at the request of the governor, has declared an emergency or a major                                         
07 disaster to exist in this state, the governor may                                                                       
08   (1)  purchase, lease, or make other arrangements with any agency of the                                              
09 United States or state for temporary housing units to be occupied by disaster victims                                   
10 and to make those units available to any political subdivision of the state;                                            
11   (2)  make housing assistance grants to eligible disaster victims who                                                
12 have located temporary housing;                                                                                         
13   (3)  assist any political subdivision of this state that is the location of                                         
14 temporary housing for disaster victims to acquire sites necessary for the temporary                                     

01 housing and do all things necessary to prepare the site to receive and use temporary                                    
02 housing units by                                                                                                        
03   (A)  advancing or lending funds available to the governor from                                                      
04 an appropriation made by the legislature or from any other source;                                                      
05   (B)  passing through funds made available by any agency, public                                                     
06 or private; or                                                                                                          
07   (C)  becoming a copartner with a political subdivision for the                                                      
08 execution and performance of any temporary housing for disaster-victim                                                  
09 projects and, for those purposes, pledging the credit of the state on terms                                             
10 considered appropriate, having due regard for current debt transactions of the                                          
11 state;                                                                                                                  
12   (4) [(3)]  under whatever relevant regulations the governor may adopt,                                             
13 temporarily suspend, or modify, for not more than 60 days, any public health, safety,                                 
14 zoning, transportation, or other requirement of law or regulation of the state, when by                                 
15 proclamation, the governor declares a suspension or modification essential to provide                                   
16 temporary housing for disaster victims.