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A message dated April 16, 1998, was read stating the Senate has                
passed:                                                                        
                                                                               
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2(FIN)                                                  
"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 any            
of the following reasons:  vocational, professional, or other                  
specific  education  for  which  a  comparable  program  is   not              

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reasonably available in the state; secondary or postsecondary                 
education; military service; medical treatment; service in the                 
Congress or in the peace corps; to care for the individual's                   
terminally ill parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; for up to         
220 days to settle the estate of the individual's deceased parent,             
spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; to care for a parent, spouse,            
sibling, child, or stepchild with a critical life-threatening illness          
whose treatment plan, as recommended by the attending physician,               
requires travel outside of the state for treatment at a medical                
specialty complex; or other reasons that the commissioner of                   
revenue may establish by regulation; requiring, for the purposes of            
permanent fund dividend eligibility, a state resident to have the              
intent to remain indefinitely; relating to the eligibility for 1992,           
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 permanent fund dividends of                   
certain spouses and dependents of eligible applicants; and                     
providing for an effective date."                                              
                                                                               
with the following amendment and it is transmitted for consideration:          
                                                                               
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2(FIN) am S                               
"An Act requiring, for purposes of permanent fund dividend                    
eligibility, an individual to have been physically present in the              
state for at least 72 consecutive hours during the prior two years             
before the current dividend year; relating, for purposes of                    
permanent fund dividend eligibility, to allowable absences for                 
secondary and postsecondary education on a full-time basis,                    
vocational, professional, or other education on a full-time basis              
when a comparable program is not reasonably available in the                   
state, serving on active duty as a member of the armed forces of               
the United States, receiving continuous medical treatment or                   
convalescing if the treatment or convalescence is not based on a               
need for climatic change, providing care for certain relatives with            
critical life-threatening illnesses, providing care for certain                
terminally ill relatives, settling the estates of certain relatives,           
serving as a member of the United States Congress, serving on the              
staff of a member from this state of the United States Congress,               
serving as an employee of the state, accompanying certain ill                  
minors, accompanying another eligible resident who is absent for               
an allowable reason as the spouse, minor dependent, or disabled                
dependent  of  the  eligible  resident, or for any reason consistent           

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with an individual's intent to remain a state resident; prohibiting,          
for purposes of permanent fund dividend eligibility, an individual             
from claiming an allowable absence unless the individual was a                 
resident for at least six consecutive months immediately before                
leaving the state; making ineligible, for purposes of permanent                
fund dividend eligibility, certain individuals who are absent for              
more than 180 days during each of 10 qualifying years; relating to             
the definition of state 'resident' for purposes of permanent fund              
dividend eligibility and requiring a state resident to have the intent         
to remain indefinitely; relating to the qualifying year and defining           
that term for purposes of the permanent fund dividend program;                 
relating to the eligibility for 1998 permanent fund dividends of               
certain spouses and dependents of eligible individuals; and                    
providing for an effective date."                                              
                                                                               
Title change to be authorized by SCR 23 am.                                    
                                                                               
CSHB 2(FIN) is under Unfinished Business.