00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 98                                                                          
01 "An Act repealing the veteran employment tax credit; and providing for an effective                                     
02 date."                                                                                                                  
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 23.15.550(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
05            (a)  The Alaska Workforce Investment Board is established in the department.                                 
06       The board consists of the following voting members, not to exceed 26:                                             
07                 (1)  the lieutenant governor or the lieutenant governor's designee;                                     
08                 (2)  the commissioners of commerce, community, and economic                                             
09       development, education and early development, health and social services, and labor                               
10       and workforce development, or each respective commissioner's designee;                                            
11                 (3)  one representative from the University of Alaska;                                                  
12                 (4)  four additional representatives of education, with one from local                                  
13       public education, one from secondary vocational education, one from a postsecondary                               
14       vocational education institution, and one from adult basic education;                                             

01                 (5)  four representatives of business and industry;                                                     
02 (6)  four representatives of organized labor whom the governor shall                                                    
03 appoint from lists of nominees submitted by recognized state labor organizations; the                                   
04 governor may reject a list submitted under this paragraph and request that another list                                 
05       be submitted;                                                                                                     
06                 (7)  at least one representative from an organization representing                                      
07       employment and training needs of Alaska Natives;                                                                  
08                 (8)  at least one representative of a community-based service                                           
09       organization;                                                                                                     
10 (9)  at least one representative who has personal or professional                                                       
11       experience with developmental disabilities;                                                                       
12 (10)  at least one veteran; in this paragraph, "veteran" means an                                                   
13       individual who served in and was honorably discharged from the                                                
14 (A) armed forces of the United States, including a reserve                                                          
15            unit of the armed forces of the United States; or                                                        
16 (B) Alaska Territorial Guard, the Alaska Army National                                                              
17 Guard, the Alaska Air National Guard, or the Alaska Naval Militia [HAS                                              
18            THE MEANING GIVEN IN AS 43.20.048(f)];                                                                       
19 (11)  at least one and up to four additional members of the private                                                     
20 sector to ensure a private sector majority and regional and local representation on the                                 
21       board.                                                                                                            
22    * Sec. 2. AS 43.20.048 is repealed January 1, 2022.                                                                
23    * Sec. 3. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
24 read:                                                                                                                   
25 TRANSITION. A taxpayer that accrues a credit authorized by AS 43.20.048, repealed                                       
26 by sec. 2 of this Act, before the effective date of sec. 2 of this Act, but whose tax year ends on                      
27 or after the effective date of sec. 2 of this Act, may take the tax credit in the tax year the                          
28 taxpayer accrues the credit.                                                                                            
29    * Sec. 4. This Act takes effect January 1, 2022.