1996-05-06                     Senate Journal                      Page 4057
HB 4                                                                         
The Finance Committee considered CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO.                         
4(STA)(title am) An Act allowing, for the purposes of permanent                
fund dividend eligibility, an individual to accompany, as the spouse           
or minor or disabled dependent, another eligible resident who is               
absent for vocational, professional, or other specific education for           
which a comparable program is not reasonably available in the state,           
for secondary or postsecondary education, for military service, for            
medical treatment, for service in the Congress or in the Peace Corps,          
or for other reasons that the commissioner of revenue may establish            
by regulation; requiring, for the purposes of permanent fund dividend          
eligibility, an individual who is not physically present in the state to       
maintain and demonstrate at all times an intent to return to the state         
to remain permanently;  relating to the eligibility for 1992, 1993, and        
1994 permanent fund dividends of certain spouses and dependents of             
eligible applicants; relating to appeal periods for certain 1994               
permanent fund dividends; and providing for an effective date and              
recommended it be replaced with                                                
                                                                               
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 4(FIN), entitled:                          
An Act relating to absences from the state for the purposes of                 
permanent fund dividend eligibility; relating to the following                 
allowable absences:  receiving secondary or postsecondary education            
on a full-time basis, receiving vocational, professional, or other             
specific education on a full-time basis for which a comparable                 
program is not reasonably available in the state, serving on active            
duty as a member of the military of the United States, receiving               
certain medical treatment, accompanying a minor who is receiving               
certain medical treatment, providing care for a parent, spouse,                
sibling, child, or stepchild with a life-threatening illness who is being      
treated at a medical specialty complex outside the state, providing            
care for a terminally ill parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild,        
settling the estate of a deceased parent, spouse, sibling, child, or           
stepchild, serving as a member of the Congress, serving on the staff           
of a member of the Congress from this state, serving in the Peace              
Corps, serving as an employee of the state, actively participating on          
a United States national athletic team, accompanying another eligible          
resident as the spouse, minor dependent, or disabled dependent of the          
eligible resident, and for any reason consistent with the individual's         
intent to remain a resident;  requiring, for the purposes of permanent         
                                                                               
                                                                               

1996-05-06                     Senate Journal                      Page 4058
HB 4                                                                         
fund dividend eligibility, an individual who is not physically present         
in the state to maintain and demonstrate at all times an intent to             
return to the state to remain permanently; relating to the eligibility         
for 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996 permanent fund dividends of               
certain spouses and dependents of eligible applicants; and providing           
for an effective date.                                                         
(title change authorized by SCR 36)                                            
                                                                               
Signing do pass: Senator Halford, Cochair.  Signing no                         
recommendation: Senators Rieger, Zharoff, Sharp, Donley.                       
                                                                               
Fiscal note for the Senate Committee Substitute published today from           
Department of Revenue.                                                         
                                                                               
The bill was referred to the Rules Committee.