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The Rules 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          
                                                                               

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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                                                                           
                                                                               
SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2(RLS) 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, participating in a teacher                
exchange program sponsored by the state, participating on a United             
States national athletic team as an eligible athlete, serving in the           
Peace Corps or as a volunteer in the Federal Emergency                         
Management Agency, serving in the Foreign Service of the United                
States, 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         
                                                                               
                                                                               

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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.                                               
                                                                               
Signing to calendar: Senator Kelly, Chair, Senator Torgerson. Signing          
no recommendation: Senator Duncan. Signing to calendar and do                  
pass: Senator Leman.                                                           
                                                                               
Previous zero fiscal note applies to the Senate Committee Substitute.          
                                                                               
The bill is on todays calendar.