00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 67(STA)                                                                                           
01 "An Act relating, for purposes of eligibility for a permanent fund dividend, to                                         
02 absences from the state while on certain sabbaticals; and providing for an                                              
03 effective date."                                                                                                        
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 43.23.005 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                            
06  (h)  An individual who was qualified on January 1, 1997, to receive longevity                                         
07 bonus payments and is no longer qualified to receive longevity bonus payments may                                       
08 take a sabbatical for a period of up to 12 consecutive months by notifying the                                          
09 department of the period the individual elects to be on sabbatical status.  The notice                                  
10 shall be provided to the department at least 30 days before the first day of the                                        
11 sabbatical period.  While on sabbatical status, the individual may be absent from the                                   
12 state at any time without being disqualified from receiving a permanent fund dividend                                   
13 solely on the basis of the absence.  An individual who has taken a sabbatical under                                     
14 this subsection or under AS 47.45.035 may not elect to take a subsequent sabbatical                                     

01 under this subsection until a period of at least five years has elapsed beginning on the                                
02 day the sabbatical ended.                                                                                               
03    * Sec. 2.  AS 43.23.095(8) is amended to read:                                                                       
04   (8)  "state resident" means an individual who is physically present in the                                           
05 state with the intent to remain permanently in the state under the requirements of                                      
06 AS 01.10.055 or, if the individual is not physically present in the state, intends to                                   
07 return to the state and remain permanently in the state under the requirements of                                       
08 AS 01.10.055, and is absent only for any of the following reasons:                                                      
09   (A)  vocational, professional, or other specific education for                                                      
10 which a comparable program was not reasonably available in the state;                                                   
11   (B)  secondary or postsecondary education;                                                                          
12   (C)  military service;                                                                                              
13   (D)  medical treatment;                                                                                             
14   (E)  service in Congress;                                                                                           
15   (F)  other reasons which the commissioner may establish by                                                          
16 regulation;                                                                                                             
17   (G)  service in the Peace Corps;                                                                                    
18   (H)  to care for the individual's terminally ill parent, spouse,                                                    
19 sibling, child, or stepchild;                                                                                           
20   (I)  for up to 220 days to settle the estate of the individual's                                                    
21 deceased parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; [OR]                                                             
22   (J)  to care for a parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild with                                                
23 a critical life-threatening illness whose treatment plan, as recommended by the                                         
24 attending physician, requires travel outside the state for treatment at a medical                                       
25 specialty complex;                                                                                                     
26   (K)  unpaid sabbatical under AS 47.45.035; or                                                                       
27   (L)  sabbatical under AS 43.23.005(h);                                                                             
28    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.