1998-04-24                     Senate Journal                      Page 3483
HB 2                                                                         
The following report was received and distributed at approximately             
9:30 a.m., April 24, 1998:                                                     
                                                        April 23, 1998         
                                                                               
Mr. President:                                                                 
Madam Speaker:                                                                 
                                                                               
The CONFERENCE COMMITTEE considered CS FOR HOUSE                               
BILL NO. 2(FIN) and SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL                            
NO. 2(FIN) am S and recommends                                                 
                                                                               
                                                                               

1998-04-24                     Senate Journal                      Page 3484
HB 2                                                                         
CONFERENCE CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 2 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.                                                             
                                                                               
be adopted.                                                                    

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HB 2                                                                         
Signing the report: Senator Sharp, Chair, Senators Leman, Ellis,               
Representative Kott, Chair, Representatives Mulder, Kubina.                    
                                                                               
Previous Senate zero fiscal note applies to the Conference Committee           
Substitute.                                                                    
                                                                               
President Miller stated that the report would be held until April 27.