00                            SENATE BILL NO. 69                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the creation of a civil legal services fund."                                                       
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 37.05.146(c) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                        
04                 (82)  civil legal services fund under AS 37.05.590.                                                     
05    * Sec. 2. AS 37.05 is amended by adding a new section to article 6 to read:                                        
06            Sec. 37.05.590. Civil legal services fund. The civil legal services fund is                                
07       established as a special account in the general fund. The fund consists of                                        
08       appropriations to it. Annually, the legislature may appropriate to the fund all or part of                        
09       the amount deposited into the general fund of the state under AS 09.17.020(j). The                                
10       legislature may make appropriations from the fund to organizations that provide civil                             
11       legal services to low-income individuals. Nothing in this section creates a dedicated                             
12       fund. In this section, "low-income individual" means an individual with an income                                 
13       equal to or less than 125 percent of the most recent federal poverty guidelines for                               
14       Alaska set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.