1998-02-10                     Senate Journal                      Page 2462
HB 2                                                                         
The Finance Committee considered 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 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 individuals terminally ill parent, spouse,              
sibling, child, or stepchild; for up to 220 days to settle the estate of       
the individuals 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 and recommended it be replaced                 
with                                                                           
                                                                               
                                                                               

1998-02-10                     Senate Journal                      Page 2463
HB 2                                                                         
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2(FIN) 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 with          
an individuals 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)                                             
                                                                               
Signing do pass: Senator Sharp, Cochair, Senators Phillips,                    
Torgerson. Signing amend: Senator Pearce, Cochair. Signing no                  
recommendation: Senators Parnell, Adams, Donley.                               
                                                                               

1998-02-10                     Senate Journal                      Page 2464
HB 2                                                                         
Zero fiscal note for the Senate committee substitute published today           
from Department of Revenue.                                                    
                                                                               
The bill was referred to the Rules Committee.